Influential Opera Composers 1900′s – Today

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Popular and Important Opera Composers 1900–present

William Walton: Walton’s major opera is Troilus and Cressida.
Michael Tippett: Probably the most famous British composer to follow in the wake of Benjamin Britten, Tippett wrote operas exploring metaphysical and social themes.
Dmitri Shostakovich: Shostakovich’s most famous opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.
Samuel Barber: An American who composed two major operas, Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra.
Gian Carlo Menotti: Italian American composer, famous for the Christmas piece Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera to be written specifically for television.
Benjamin Britten: One of the handful of British opera composers to reach international acclaim.
Hans Werner Henze: One of the most widely performed post-World War II opera composers.
Peter Maxwell Davies: A British modernist of the “Manchester school”.
Philip Glass : A leading American composer of the minimalist school, Glass first came to fame with the opera Einstein on the Beach, a collaboration with the theatre director Robert Wilson.

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