Thread: Fantasy Opera Season

Some of the bloggers have been suggesting their fantasy opera seasons.

My own Season One

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Bizet: Carmen
Donizetti: Roberto Deveruex
Giordano: Fedora
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re
Monteverdi : L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Offenbach: Le Contes d'Hoffmann
Puccini: Edgar
Verdi: Attila
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Oh, you people know me...

Berg: Lulu
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Enescu: Oedipe
Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Norgard: Nuit des Hommes
Saariaho: L'amour de Loin
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Sibelius: The Maiden in the Tower
Szymanowski: King Roger
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Originally Posted by World Violist

Oh, you people know me...

Berg: Lulu
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Enescu: Oedipe
Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise
Mozart: The Magic Flute
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Norgard: Nuit des Hommes
Saariaho: L'amour de Loin
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
Sibelius: The Maiden in the Tower
Szymanowski: King Roger
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

I'm shocked, World_Violist!!! *You* want Don Pasquale?

Originally Posted by Almaviva

I'm shocked, World_Violist!!! *You* want Don Pasquale?

What can I say? It's fun and it adds a bit of variety.

Berg: Lulu============================ YES!
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande ===================== YES!
Donizetti: Don Pasquale===========================Why not?
Enescu: Oedipe===============No: Prokofiev's War and peace instead
Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise=========No: Russlan and Ludmila instead
Mozart: The Magic Flute==============YES!
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov===========NO: Schreker: Die Gezeichneten instead
Norgard: Nuit des Hommes========== No: Schreker: The blacksmith of gantes instead
Saariaho: L'amour de Loin==========No. Wozzeck instead
Schoenberg: Moses und Aron============ YES
Sibelius: The Maiden in the Tower============YES
Szymanowski: King Roger==============YES
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde ===================YES!!!

Originally Posted by sospiro

Some of the bloggers have been suggesting their fantasy opera seasons.

My own Season One

Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Bizet: Carmen
Donizetti: Roberto Deveruex
Giordano: Fedora
Handel: Giulio Cesare
Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re
Monteverdi : L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Offenbach: Le Contes d'Hoffmann
Puccini: Edgar
Verdi: Attila
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

My fantasy season would have works that I haven't seen on stage or on video, and are not otherwise available. Stuff like La Wally, La Muete de Portici, Le Postillon de Longjumeau, Il Templario, Oedipe, Le Grand Macabre, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, etc. Plus, some fantasies of another kind - the main one being Salome portrayed by Anna, for obvious reasons (no stand-in body doublé, please), and some sort of all-female dream cast (someone should write an opera that would be ideally suited for Anna, Miah, Patricia, Danielle, Isabel, etc, all together, with a very spicy plot and lots of skin. Maybe, "Sex in the City" - can any of our musician friends here write the score, please? I'll provide the libretto.

Originally Posted by Almaviva

My fantasy season would have works that I haven't seen on stage or on video, and are not otherwise available. Stuff like La Wally, La Muete de Portici, Le Postillon de Longjumeau, Il Templario, Oedipe, Le Grand Macabre, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, etc. Plus, some fantasies of another kind - the main one being Salome portrayed by Anna, for obvious reasons (no stand-in body doublé, please), and some sort of all-female dream cast (someone should write an opera that would be ideally suited for Anna, Miah, Patricia, Danielle, Isabel, etc, all together, with a very spicy plot and lots of skin. Maybe, "Sex in the City" - can any of our musician friends here write the score, please? I'll provide the libretto.

Stop it Alma - you're giving me ideas.

... and some sort of all-male dream cast (someone should write an opera that would be ideally suited for Simon, Jonas, Dmitri, Plácido, Erwin etc, all together, with a very spicy plot and lots of bare chests and tight trousers ...

Good thread.

My first season would be

1. Don Giovanni
2. Rusalka
3. Radamisto
4. Il Trovatore
5. Elektra
6. Il Turco in Italia
7. Parsifal
8. L’Heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi
9. The Minotaur
10. Les Contes D'Hoffman

Not necessarily all operas at the top of my best loved list but a wide enough selection all the same.

PS Has anyone thought of a fantasy Ring cast thread and would they be willing to get involved. let us know and I will set up.

Wagner Tristan unde Isolde
Wagner Ring
Verdi La Traviata
Puccini La Boheme
Mozart Le Nozze da Figaro
Strauss Salome
Shostakovich Lady Macbeth
Prokofiev War and Peace
Berlioz Les Troyens
Schoenberg Moses und Aaron
Berg Lulu & Wozzek
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov

Something by Handel
Something by Rossinni

and one or two world premieres.

Thats about perfect.

Wagner: Lohengrin (has to have Jonas)
Wagner: Ring
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete with barihunk)
Puccini La Fanciulla del West
Verdi: Otello
Massenet: Manon (has to have Natalie)
Janacek: Jenufa (has to have Nina Stemme)
Britten: The rape of Lucretia (has to have Christopher Maltman)
Thomas: Hamlet (has to have Simon Keenlyside)
Prokofiev: War and Peace (has to have Nathan Gunn)
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Something by Handel with Bejun Mehta and Andreas Scholl and if we can get Christophe Dumaux too I won't complain

Originally Posted by sospiro

... and some sort of all-male dream cast (someone should write an opera that would be ideally suited for Simon, Jonas, Dmitri, Plácido, Erwin etc, all together, with a very spicy plot and lots of bare chests and tight trousers ...

I think Armida is about as close as you can get to that one.

Originally Posted by jflatter

PS has anyone thought of a fantasy Ring cast thread...

I kind of ambled up sidelong to that topic with this post- but I (for one) would be delighted to explore the concept further in another thread.

Originally Posted by Chi_townPhilly

I think Armida is about as close as you can get to that one.

I already have this on order

Originally Posted by jflatter

PS Has anyone thought of a fantasy Ring cast thread and would they be willing to get involved. let us know and I will set up.

I'd personally rather like this idea.

Here are some of my choices. It's pretty exotic season, so there's not much chance of anything like this actually materializing anywhere:

Albert Roussel: Padmavati .

Janacek.The Excursions of Mr.Broucek.

Ernest Chausson. Le Roi Arthus.

Dvorak.The Devil And Kate.

Howard Hanson.Merry Mount.

Szymanowski.King Roger.

Smetana. Dalibor.

Richard Srrauss.Die Schweigsame Frau.

Nielsen.Maskarade, Saul & David.

Zdenek Fibich. Sarka. (pronounced sharka).

Rimsky-Korsakov. The Snow Maiden.

Pfitzner.Palestrina.