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Post your favourite operas!
I'm limiting myself to those I think are excellent (A's, not B's; the five-star brigade)
18th century
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Iphigénie en Tauride; Armide ; Paride ed Elena
Mozart : Idomeneo ; Don Giovanni ; The Marriage of Figaro ; Così fan tutte; La clemenza di Tito
Salieri: Les Danaïdes
Grétry: Richard Coeur-de-lion
Maybe Sacchini's Oedipe à Colone, too?
19th century
Italian
Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri; Barber of Seville; Cenerentola; Donna del lago; Mosè; Ermione; Maometto II; Matilde di Shabran; Guillaume Tell; Le comte Ory
Donizetti: Imelda de' Lambertazzi; Lucia di Lammermoor; Maria Stuarda; Lucrezia Borgia; Roberto Devereux; La favorite
Bellini: I puritani
Mercadante: Orazi e Curiazi; Virginia
Verdi: Macbeth; Rigoletto; Ballo in maschera; Don Carlos; Aida; Otello
German
Beethoven: Fidelio
Weber: Der Freischutz
Wagner: Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin
Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann
French
Boieldieu : La dame blanche
Meyerbeer : Les Huguenots ; Le prophète ; Dinorah ; Vasco da Gama
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini; La damnation de Faust; Les Troyens
Auber: Fra Diavolo; Le cheval de bronze; Gustave III
Halévy: La juive; La reine de Chypre
Offenbach : Ba-ta-clan; M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le…; Orphée aux enfers; La belle Hélène; La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein; Les brigands; La Périchole; Les contes d'Hoffmann
Adam: Le toréador
Gounod: Faust
Reyer: Sigurd
Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII
Massenet: Thaïs; La navarraise; Cendrillon; Grisélidis; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Chérubin; Thérèse; Ariane; Roma; Don Quichotte; Amadis
Slavic
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar; Ruslan & Lyudmila
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko; The Snow Maiden; Kashchey the Deathless; The Invisible City of Kitezh
Borodin: Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans
Moniuszko: Straszny dwór
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
British
Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury; Pirates of Penzance; Patience; Iolanthe; Princess Ida; Mikado; Grand Duke
20th century
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Strauss: Salome; Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Schweigsame Frau; Friedenstag; Daphne
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi; Turandot
Paliashvili: Abesalom da Eteri
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bernstein: West Side Story
Sondheim: Follies; A Little Night Music; Pacific Overtures; Sweeney Todd; Into the Woods
Theodorakis: Antigone; Elektra; Medea
Glass: Satyagraha; Akhnaten
I imagine that Schillings' Mona Lisa would be gripping onstage. And there are a few operas I'd like to hear properly, such as Barber's Antony & Cleopatra, Tippett's King Priam, Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, Walton's Troilus & Cressida, Dupont's Antar, Prokofiev's War and Peace, and more Milhaud. (Bolivar is rather good, but no score or libretto unavailable.)
Post your favourite operas!
Always happy to oblige!
I'm limiting myself to those I think are excellent (A's, not B's; the five-star brigade)
18th century
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Iphigénie en Tauride; Armide ; Paride ed Elena
Mozart : Idomeneo ; Don Giovanni ; The Marriage of Figaro ; Così fan tutte; La clemenza di Tito
Salieri: Les Danaïdes
Grétry: Richard Coeur-de-lion
Maybe Sacchini's Oedipe à Colone, too?
19th century
Italian
Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri; Barber of Seville; Cenerentola; Donna del lago; Mosè; Ermione; Maometto II; Matilde di Shabran; Guillaume Tell; Le comte Ory
Donizetti: Imelda de' Lambertazzi; Lucia di Lammermoor; Maria Stuarda; Lucrezia Borgia; Roberto Devereux; La favorite
Bellini: I puritani
Mercadante: Orazi e Curiazi; Virginia
Verdi: Macbeth; Rigoletto; Ballo in maschera; Don Carlos; Aida; Otello
German
Beethoven: Fidelio
Weber: Der Freischutz
Wagner: Flying Dutchman; Lohengrin
Lortzing: Zar und Zimmermann
French
Boieldieu : La dame blanche
Meyerbeer : Les Huguenots ; Le prophète ; Dinorah ; Vasco da Gama
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini; La damnation de Faust; Les Troyens
Auber: Fra Diavolo; Le cheval de bronze; Gustave III
Halévy: La juive; La reine de Chypre
Offenbach : Ba-ta-clan; M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le…; Orphée aux enfers; La belle Hélène; La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein; Les brigands; La Périchole; Les contes d'Hoffmann
Adam: Le toréador
Gounod: Faust
Reyer: Sigurd
Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII
Massenet: Thaïs; La navarraise; Cendrillon; Grisélidis; Le jongleur de Notre-Dame; Chérubin; Thérèse; Ariane; Roma; Don Quichotte; Amadis
Slavic
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar; Ruslan & Lyudmila
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko; The Snow Maiden; Kashchey the Deathless; The Invisible City of Kitezh
Borodin: Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans
Moniuszko: Straszny dwór
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
British
Gilbert & Sullivan: Trial by Jury; Pirates of Penzance; Patience; Iolanthe; Princess Ida; Mikado; Grand Duke
20th century
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Strauss: Salome; Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Schweigsame Frau; Friedenstag; Daphne
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi; Turandot
Paliashvili: Abesalom da Eteri
Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Bernstein: West Side Story
Sondheim: Follies; A Little Night Music; Pacific Overtures; Sweeney Todd; Into the Woods
Theodorakis: Antigone; Elektra; Medea
Glass: Satyagraha; Akhnaten
I imagine that Schillings' Mona Lisa would be gripping onstage. And there are a few operas I'd like to hear properly, such as Barber's Antony & Cleopatra, Tippett's King Priam, Gershwin's Porgy & Bess, Walton's Troilus & Cressida, Dupont's Antar, Prokofiev's War and Peace, and more Milhaud. (Bolivar is rather good, but no score or libretto unavailable.)