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The Talk Classical Top 272 Most Recommended Operas

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TOP 100

-1 Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wagner)
-2 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
-3 Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
-4 Giulio Cesare (Handel)
-5 Les Troyens (Berlioz)
-6 Don Giovanni (Mozart)
-7 La Traviata (Verdi)
-8 La Boheme (Puccini)
-9 Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)
10 Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Wagner)
11 Die Zauberflote (Mozart)
12 Carmen (Bizet)
13 Parsifal (Wagner)
14 Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
15 Otello (Verdi)
16 Tosca (Puccini)
17 Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart)
18 Wozzeck (Berg)
19 Salome (Strauss)
20 Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
21 Lohengrin (Wagner)
22 Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
23 Aida (Verdi)
24 Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
25 Don Carlos (Verdi)
26 Rigoletto (Verdi)
27 Elektra (Strauss)
28 Tannhauser (Wagner)
29 L'Orfeo (Monteverdi)
30 Moses und Aron (Schoenberg)
31 Norma (Bellini)
32 Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)
33 Fidelio (Beethoven)
34 Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
35 La Fanciulla del West (Puccini)
36 Jenufa (Janacek)
37 War and Peace (Prokofiev)
38 Porgy & Bess (Gershwin)
39 Lulu (Berg)
40 Ariodante (Handel)
41 The Bartered Bride (Smetana)
42 Der Fliegende Hollander (Wagner)
43 Falstaff (Verdi)
44 Turandot (Puccini)
45 Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
46 Les Indes Galantes (Rameau)
47 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
48 Il Trovatore (Verdi)
49 Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)
50 Peter Grimes (Britten)
51 Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss)
52 Manon (Massenet)
53 Pelleas et Melisande (Debussy)
54 La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz)
55 Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich)
56 Alcina (Handel)
57 Faust (Gounod)
58 The Love for Three Oranges (Prokofiev)
59 The Rake's Progress(Stravinsky)
60 Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
61 Idomeneo (Mozart)
62 Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok)
63 Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
64 L'Elisir D'Amore (Donizetti)
65 L'Incoronasione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
66 Der Freischutz (Weber)
67 La Cenerentola (Rossini)
68 Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
69 Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
70 Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
71 Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saens)
72 Capriccio (Strauss)
73 Rusalka (Dvorak)
74 L'Amour de Loin (Saariaho)
75 I Puritani (Bellini)
76 La Forza del Destino (Verdi)
77 La Fille du Regiment (Donizetti)
78 Romeo et Juliette (Gounod)
79 Un Ballo in Maschera (Verdi)
80 Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
81 La Clemenza di Tito (Mozart)
82 The Cunning Little Vixen (Janacek)
83 Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
84 Macbeth (Verdi)
85 La Rondine (Puccini)
86 La Sonnambula (Bellini)
87 L'Enfant et les Sortileges (Ravel)
88 Euryanthe (Weber)
89 The Golden Cockerel (Rimsky-Korsakov)
90 L'Italiana in Algeri (Rossini)
91 Andrea Chenier (Giordano)
92 Werther (Massenet)
93 Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
94 I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini)
95 Arabella (Strauss)
96 Ernani (Verdi)
97 Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky)
98 Mignon (Thomas)
99 Suor Angelica (Puccini)
100 Orlando (Handel)
 
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We have finished establishing a companion list for this thread, with the most recommended video (DVD/blu-ray) versions of each of our top 100 recommended operas. It can be consulted as a sticky in our Opera on DVD and Blu-ray subforum. Make sure you scroll down because the list has had one major revision already, and the revised list is at the end of the thread. Here's a link to it:

http://www.talkclassical.com/12300-talk-classical-most-recommended.html

We have established the continuation to this list, aiming for the 101-200 most recommended operas, but then we were able to go as high as 272. The last few were operas that were recommended by at least two members. Above 272 we couldn't get any other opera to be recommended by more than one member, so we stopped at 272. There was an extensive list of "also rans" with only one recommendation, which can be consulted by clicking on the link that we've included after the list below.

101 Puccini...Manon Lescaut
102 Monteverdi...Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
103 Strauss (Richard)...Die Frau ohne Schatten
104 Handel...Hercules
105 Poulenc...Dialogues des Carmelites
106 Delibes...Lakmé
107 Britten...Turn of the Screw
108 Bizet - Les Pêcheurs de Perles
109 Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina
110 Britten - Billy Budd
111 Handel - Rinaldo
112 Busoni - Doktor Faust
113 Verdi - Luisa Miller
114 Schreker - Die Gezeichneten
115 Prokofiev - The Fiery Angel
116 Gluck - Alceste
117 Handel - Theodora
118 Rameau - Castor et Pollux
119 Massenet - Thaïs
120 Rameau - Les Boreades
121 Purcell - The Fairy Queen
122 Handel - Serse
123 Britten - Death in Venice
124 Donizetti - Maria Stuarda
125 Borodin - Prince Igor
126 Verdi - I Vespri Siciliani
127 Verdi - Nabucco
128 Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots
129 Stravinsky - Le Rossignol
130 Charpentier (Marc-Antoine) - Medée
131 Boito - Mefistofele
132 Janacek - From the House of the Dead
133 Rossini - Guillaume Tell
134 Shostakovich - The Nose
135 Mozart - Il Re Pastore
136 Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini
137 Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda
138 Prokofiev - Betrothal in a Monastery
139 Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila
140 Rossini - Le Comte Ory
141 Korngold - Die Tote Stadt
142 Puccini - Il Tabarro
143 Rossini - Il Viaggio a Reims
144 Janacek - The Makropulos Case
145 Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride
146 Verdi - Attila
147 Halévy - La Juive
148 Rimski-Korsakov - Sadko
149 Handel - Acis and Galatea
150 Rossini - Il Turco in Italia
151 Thomas - Hamlet
152 Handel - Tamerlano
153 Mozart - Mitridate Re di Ponto
154 Donizetti - La Favorita
155 Handel - Agrippina
156 Massenet - Don Quichotte
157 Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova
158 Messiaen - Saint François d'Assise
159 Wagner - Rienzi
160 Strauss (Richard) - Daphne
161 Hindemith - Cardillac
162 Weill - Die Dreigroschenoper
163 Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa
164 Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini
165 Adams - Nixon in China
166 Glinka - A Life for the Tsar
167 Lully - Atys
168 Flotow - Martha
169 Vivaldi - Ercole su'l Termodonte
170 Handel - Rodelinda
171 Lully - Armide
172 Schubert - Fierrabras
173 Handel - Admeto
174 Previn - A Streetcar Named Desire
175 Donizetti - Anna Bolena
176 Rossini - Armida
177 Ravel - L'Heure Espagnole
178 Handel - Semele
179 Berlioz - Béatrice et Bénédict
180 Weill - Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
181 Weber - Oberon
182 Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
183 Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
184 Ponchielli - La Gioconda
185 Rossini - Semiramide
186 Rossini - Tancredi
187 Verdi - I Lombardi alla prima crociata
188 Britten - The Rape of Lucretia
189 Britten - Owen Wingrave
190 Henze - Boulevard Solitude
191 Gluck - Iphigénie en Aulide
192 Prokofiev - The Gambler
193 Paisiello - Nina, o sia la pazza per amore
194 Meyerbeer - L'Africaine
195 Pergolesi - La Serva Padrona
196 Cimarosa - Il Matrimonio Segreto
197 Rossini - La Pietra del Paragone
198 Rossini - La Donna del Lago
199 Schoenberg - Erwartung
200 Schumann - Genoveva
201 Purcell - King Arthur
202 Marschner - Der Vampyr
203 Rameau - Zoroastre
204 Charpentier (Gustave) - Louise
205 Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tsar's Bride
206 Giordano - Fedora
207 Donizetti - Rita
208 Verdi - Il Corsaro
209 Ligeti - Le Grand Macabre
210 Verdi's - Stiffelio
211 Cherubini - Médée
212 Hindemith - Mathis der Maler
213 Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia
214 Delius - A Village Romeo and Juliet
215 Rimsky-Korsakov - The Snow Maiden
216 Rameau - Les Paladins
217 Massenet - Le Cid
218 Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera
219 Zimmermann - Die Soldaten
220 Rachmaninov - Aleko
221 Enesco - Oedipe
222 Krenek - Johnny Spielt Auf
223 De Falla - La Vida Breve
224 Paisello - Il barbiere di Siviglia
225 Handel - Partenope
226 Hasse - Cleofide
227 Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream
228 Nicolai - Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor
229 Auber - Fra Diavolo
230 Massenet - Cendrillon
231 Monteverdi - Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
232 Lully - Cadmus et Hermione
233 Tchaikovsky - Iolanta
234 Rameau - Les fêtes d'Hébé
235 Pfitzner - Palestrina
236 Catalani - La Wally
237 Rossini - Ermione
238 Glass - Akhnaten
239 Pergolesi - Lo Frate 'nnamorato
240 Rameau - Hyppolite et Aricie
241 Rimski-Korsakov - The Legend of the invisible City Kitesh
242 Martin y Soler - Il Burbero di Buon Cuore
243 Adams - Death of Klinghoffer
244 Puccini - Le Villi
245 Poulenc - La Voix Humaine
246 Mozart - Der Schauspieldirektor
247 Massenet - Hérodiade
248 Mussorgsky - Sorochyntsky Fair
249 Rimski-Korsakov - May Night
250 Glass - Satygraha
251 Gomes - Il Guarany
252 Cavalli - La Calisto
253 Penderecki - The Devils of Loudun
254 Adès - The Tempest
255 Leoncavallo - Zazà
256 Schreker - Der Ferne Klang
257 Rameau - Dardanus
258 De Falla - El retablo de Maese Pedro
259 Rossini - Mosè in Egitto
260 Stockhausen - Licht cycle
261 Meyerbeer - Dinorah
262 Gounod - Mireille
263 Mozart - Il Sogno di Scipione
264 Landi - Il Sant'Alessio
265 Rossini - Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra
266 Lortzing - Zar und Zimmermann
267 Glass - Einstein on the Beach
268 Adès - Powder Her Face
269 Meyerbeer - Le Prophète
270 Bellini - Il Pirata
271 Rameau - Platée
272 Meyerbeer - Robert Le Diable

This is the thread from where this list came (other operas nominated with only one vote are listed there as well):

http://www.talkclassical.com/13968-tc-most-recommended-operas.html
 
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