Editing 1996 in music (section)

==Opera==
* [[Lorenzo Ferrero]] – ''La nascita di Orfeo''
* [[Daron Hagen]] – ''[[Vera of Las Vegas]]''
* [[Franz Hummel]] – ''Gesualdo'' (14 January 1996, Kaiserslautern)<ref>Eckhard Roelcke, "Mördermusik", ''Die Zeit'' 1996, no. 5 (26 January).</ref>
* [[James MacMillan]] – ''Inés de Castro''
* [[Michael Obst (composer)|Michael Obst]] – ''Solaris'' (4 December, Muffathalle, [[Munich Biennale]])<ref>Eleanore Buening, "Die Soap mit den Aliens", ''Die Zeit'' 1996, no. 51 (13 December).</ref>
* [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]] – ''[[Freitag aus Licht]]'' (12 September, [[Leipzig Opera]])<ref>Heinz Josef Herbort, "Erlösung trotz alledem: Freitag, Karlheinz Stockhausens fünfte LICHT-Oper, in Leipzig uraufgeführt", ''Die Zeit'' 1996, no. 39 (20 September).</ref>