[superhorn]

Unfortunately, Wagner did not live long enough to write his planned opera "Die Sieger" (The Victors),
based on Buddhism and reincarnation . That would have been interesting !
Prokofiev was planning to write an opera about the life of the nomadic Kazakh tribes of central Asia using Kazakh folk music , but died leaving only a few sketches . Too bad .

 

[brotagonist]

Kafka didn't live long enough to complete the Castle, either. But the hero never gave up!

 

[arpeggio]

What the???? Someone gave this thread one star? This is a great thread!!!:tiphat:

 

[Celloman]

The Lord of the Rings - Richard Wagner

Oh, wait...I'm having a weird deja vu...

 

[arpeggio]

I've got one. Holst Star Wars. He composed the soundtrack. Why not the opera?

 

[Celloman]

I've got one. Holst Star Wars. He composed the soundtrack. Why not the opera?

George Lucas could write the libretto.

 

[arpeggio]

Verdi, Hunchback of Notre Dame

Wow! A Verdi opera that maybe even I would like.

 

[Loge]

Richard Wagner - Frankenstein

The book has that Gothic feeling along the same lines as the Flying Dutchman. It would have had everything. A bass baritone monster, the tenor Frankenstein and the soprano Elizabeth who redeems Frankenstein. Imagine Jonas Kauffman singing the title role. And the music would have been the greatest.

Giacomo Puccini - Phantom of the Opera

But wait a minute he did! Move this movie to the 59 seconds mark!

 

[Reichstag aus LICHT]

Verdi: Hunchback of Notre Dame

Wow! A Verdi opera that maybe even I would like.

I'm not sure. I've heard enough "Hump-pa-pa, Hump-pa-pa" arias and choruses for one lifetime

 

[Celloman]

I wish Mahler had written an opera with Hofmannsthal as the librettist...

 

[anmhe]

Short-time lurker, first time poster.

the Hangover - Music by John Adams, libretto by Alice Goodman.
I know Adams is capable of elevating great topics, but can he elevate low comedy? Is Goodman up to the challenge? If done right, this could possibly be as fun as Cosi Fan Tutte.

 

[anmhe]

Another idea, though I don't know of a contemporary conposer who would tackle the subject: Conan the Barbarian (adaptation of the John Milius film).

Don't dismiss the idea so quickly. Conan is a MUCH more likeable and relatable character than Siegfried, and multitudes flock to see his story played out on stage.

 

[Loge]

Another idea, though I don't know of a contemporary conposer who would tackle the subject: Conan the Barbarian (adaptation of the John Milius film).

Don't dismiss the idea so quickly. Conan is a MUCH more likeable and relatable character than Siegfried, and multitudes flock to see his story played out on stage.

Unfortunately Basil Poledouris is dead. But there is another problem. In your imagination Conan probably looks like this..

But when it comes to the opera version, Conan will end up looking like this....

 

[anmhe]

If I can deal with a bald, sexagenarian Parsifal, or a 300-pound Mimi, I'm sure I can deal with an out-of-shape Conan.

Also, haven't there been many a performance of Siegfied where his muscles were a foam padded suit?

 

[Becca]

The Pickwick Papers is sufficiently episodic to make a good libretto. As to who, perhaps Ralph Vaughan Williams?

Back in my pre-historic university days I thought that W.W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw would make a good libretto - György Ligeti ??

 

[Becca]

Tom Holt wrote a very amusing book based on characters from Wagner's Ring Expecting Someone Taller which is set in contemporary England...

"The story involves Malcolm Fisher, a hapless auction clerk in modern-day England, who runs over a badger one night. The badger turns out to be the giant Ingolf, brother of Fafnir, and Fisher becomes the new owner of the Ring of the Nibelung and the Tarnhelm, and, thereby, ruler of the world."

Can you imagine what Rossini could have done with that? OK, so the timing is a bit awkward, but then this IS opera that we are talking about!

 

[Celloman]

Has Madame Bovary been turned into an opera? I'll bet Poulenc could have done a good job with it.

 

[BalalaikaBoy]

Wagner
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- Lord of the Rings
- The Iliad

Tchaikovsky:
- Ivan the Terrible

Verdi:
- Nefertiti
- David (King of Israel)
- Genghis Khan

Meyerbeer:
- The Inferno

 

[anmhe]

Dolemite
Music by Thomas Adès
Libretto by Byron Minns

A tale of revenge, and politics set in early 1970's LA.

I chose Adès because of the way he wrote for his brass section in Powder Her Face. Byron Minns for the libretto (in spite of his inexperience with opera) because he knows how to get the language correct without it becoming cringe-worthy.

 

[GioCar]

I'm always sad Verdi never did end up writing "Il Re Lear".

Me too, but not as his last opera... I think Falstaff is perfect where it is, as his farewell to the world...

and I'm always sad Wagner didn't go beyond his sketches for Die Sieger.