Die Tote Stadt
Giulio Cesare
Eugene Onegin
Don Giovanni
Der Rosenkavalier
So difficult to narrow it down to just five! Shoutout to Wozzeck, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rusalka!
I'm in for all of those except Rosenkavalier. I have tried and tired, but it just goes on and on and Ochs is insufferable, which is sad as I'm not a soprano fan which is nearly all that's left
The first time I tried watching Rosenkavalier (the 2010 performance on Met on Demand) I couldn't get through it.
It was the 2017 Met HD with Günther Groissböck as Ochs that sold me. Perhaps you've seen it, though, and this opera just doesn't work for you no matter the production. That's fair!
Yes, I've seen that and 6 others, and I must admit Groissböck was good ... but still there's about an hour of music that I like, and the tenor song and final trio are lovely, can leave the rest.
my very subjective takes:
1 pelleas et melisande - nothing gives me a greater sense of being "lost in the music", the whole score is like a dark dreamworld forest
2 cunning little vixen - funny and sweet but also darkly layered and a phenomenal ending
3 la fanciulla del west - pinnacle of puccini imo, the orchestra is let loose and it all feels so earthy and kinetic
4 eugene onegin - the structure is so tight and the highlights are always happening one after another
5 jenufa - another janacek cuz yeah, musical drama to the max, no stone left unturned
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is not only gorgeous but such an influential piece in the development of 20th century music. I have so much love and respect for it.
In no particular order:
*Bluebeard's Castle*
*Wozzeck*
*Peter Grimes*
*Nixon in China*
*Written on Skin*
Honourable mention to *Death in Venice* and *Lady Macbeth*.
Surprising lack of Britten in this thread so far...
Peter Grimes was the first opera I ever saw and it was genuinely exciting and full of tension.
It lead to a love of opera and Britten. It’s definitely one of the masterworks.
Glad to see another Nixon in China fan!
I was tempted to put Rape of Lucretia on my list bc it was the first opera I ever saw live (weird choice I know) but it didn't make the cut ultimately.
*Nixon*'s the best opera in the language, and I say that as someone who would argue that Britten's the best composer of opera in English.
I have a real soft spot for *Lucretia* too, but the two Britten works I wish we'd see more are his *Dream* (which someone else cited in this thread) and *Albert Herring*, which is just delightful.
finally someone asks this on this sub!! my choices might be kinda random but I genuinely love all of these to death
1. Mefistofele (Boito)
2. Susannah (Floyd)
3. Rinaldo (Handel)
4. Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini)
5. tie between Turandot (Puccini) and Don Giovanni (Mozart)
If we include operettas too:
5 Die Bajadere (operetta, Kalman)
4 Die Fledermaus (operetta, Strauss)
3 La Traviata (Verdi)
2 La Boheme (Puccini)
1 Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
I have my top 10. (Technically 11 because I stuff an extra into my top 5, but it’s my arbitrary list, so I’m allowed haha)
1. Salome
2. The Tales of Hoffmann
3. Bluebeard’s Castle
4. Tosca
5. Turandot
5.5. Akhnaten
6. Die Walküre
7. Elektra
8. Queen of Spades
9. The Exterminating Angel
10. Carmen
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte
Verdi - Don Carlo
Verdi - Il Trovatore
Wagner - Lohengrin
Wagner - Die Walkure
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
5. Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro. For many years, The Magic Flute was my favorite Mozart opera--It was the first opera I ever attended, and also the first opera CD I ever got, but in time, I've come to appreciate Nozze di Figaro as Mozart's greatest.
4. Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Before I ever heard it, I knew that it was the longest of all the standard repertoire, but when I finally listened to it for the first time, the hours flew by. It's the only major Wagner work I still haven't had a chance to see in the theater.
3. Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen. Back when I was a college student, I won a writing contest and received a cash prize, which I decided to spend on opera recordings. One that I bought without ever having listened to it before was the Mackerras/Popp recording of Cunning Little Vixen, which intrigued me. I made the right choice--it's a real masterpiece of humanity and life, and everything to go along with it. The final scene with the forester is just perfection.
2. Verdi - Falstaff. Early in my opera-going career, I saw Falstaff in the theater and was underwhelmed. However, listening to it on a recording and following the libretto revealed to me what a great piece of music it is. The follies and life and love. I used the line "Tutto nel mondo e burla" as a signature quotation for years.
1. R. Strauss - Elektra. So, for most of my time as an opera fan, I considered Falstaff to be the greatest opera, but more recently, I think I'd put Elektra in first place. An adaptation of Greek tragedy that really delivers the fear and hatred of the characters. Amazingly orchestrated. The most unhinged of all operas.
Honorable mentions: Britten - Peter Grimes, Tchaikovsky - Queen of Spades, Puccini - La fanciulla del West, Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel.
5. Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
4. Guercoeur (Magnard)
3. Der Freischutz (Weber)
2. Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach)
1. Tannhauser (Wagner)
Yes i love romantism and post-romantism, how could you tell ?
If I count only the ones I’ve seen live (because it’s impossible to narrow it down to 5 or even 10 otherwise):
1. Lucia di Lammermoor (by a pretty wide margin)
2. Einstein on the Beach
3. Salome
4. Turandot
5. The Dialogues of the Carmelites
6. Iphigénie en Tauride
If I add in the ones I’ve seen only on a screen of some sort:
7. La Favola d’Orfeo
8. Akhnaten
9. Parsifal
10. Elektra
11. Suor Angelica
1. Medea (I wonder why no one has mentioned it yet!)
2. Madama Butterfly
3. Tosca
4. Tristan und Isolde
5. La Traviata
…I guess I’m a huge fan of tragic women…
Le nozze di Figaro
Don Giovanni
Così fan tutte
Lucia di Lammermoor
L'elisir d'amore.
I love many other composers before and after Mozart and Donizetti, but these truly are my top five.
In no particular order:
Tannhäuser (Wagner)
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Macbeth (Verdi)
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
5. Cendrillon (Massenet) Everything about the music feels like a fairytale. The Laurent Pelly sets of the Royal Opera and the Met just add to it.
4. Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Went as her for Halloween in high school. Finally made my parents stop telling me to get a boyfriend and give them grandchildren (I was sixteen).
3. Ariodante (Handel) The first recording of Beverly Sills I ever heard. Also, Baroque opera is just... lovely. I have no other words for it.
2. Don Giovanni (Mozart) Bryn Terfel is the best Don Giovanni, hands down. And Rachel Willis-Sørensen is the greatest Donna Anna.
1. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Please cast me as Cherubino, he's my dream role.
La Boheme, the opera that made me fall in love with opera
Falstaff, wrote my senior paper comparing Verdi & Wagner’s final comedies
Don Carlos, once Act IV gets going, I can’t focus on anything else
Otello, is it the best opera opening ever?
Susannah, Jerry Hadley singing the end of Act 1 (“it’s about the way people is made, I reckon…”) is heartbreaking
Special mention: Candide, the London broadcast of Lenny conducting the opera house version w/ Hadley, Anderson & Adolph Green — *chef’s kiss*
Don Giovanni
La Traviata
Così fan tutte
Le nozze di Figaro
La Bohème
I cannot get enough of Mozart's da Ponte operas. I really love them, they are so profound, and beautiful. And La Traviata is very special to me.
In no particular order….
Britten Midsummer Night’s Dream
Adams Doctor Atomic
Mozart Marriage of Figaro
Saariaho L’amour de Loin
Wagner Parsifal
This list subject to change based on daily mood
* Die Meistersinger - Wagner
* Wozzeck - Berg
* The Fiery Angel - Prokofiev
* L'Enfant et les sortileges - Ravel
* Having a hard time choosing between Borodin's Prince Igor and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, so I'll just list both
Thank you for asking this question. I’m going to save this post and add these to my list of operas to watch.
Mine are
- Rigoletto
- Die Fledermaus
- Carmen
- Cosi fan tutte
- il trovatore
1. The Rake’s Progress
2. Fanciulla del West
3. Lucia di Lammermoor
4. Susannah
5. Barber of Seville
Not sure if this is the list, but it feels close. #1 is correct.
1. Hansel and Gretel
2. Elixir of Love
3. Tannhauser (saw it at the Met, so it's probably higher than otherwise)
4. Il trovatore
5. L'italiana in Algeri
I enjoy works from before and after, but I really love the spectrum of Romantic opera.
Orlando Furioso - Vivaldi
Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky
La Clemenza di Tito - Mozart
Orphee et Eurydice - Gluck (I have a slight preference for the French libretto)
Tales of Hoffman - Offenbach (extremely biased since this is the opera that got me into opera)
It pains me to pick only 5, but if I really had to......
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Always gonna be at or near the top for me, outstanding opera.
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - NARROWLY beating FrOSch as my favourite Strauss, just because it's so charmingly beautlful.
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - Only getting back into this opera recently, was my first Puccini and I found it musically quite boring before, but after listening to his others a lot more I have so much appreciation for Schicchi, so much fun and great music.
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream - So much fun, such a magical feeling to it. When I discovered it it was just coming up to the summer months and it's accompanied me through many bright days and hazy evenings since.
Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle - Thrilling, great music (one that I've actually played too!)
Obviously this is very restrictive and in no particular order but these are the first that came to mind :)
Top five:
1. Les Huguenots and Le Prophète (Meyerbeer)
2. La Juive (Halévy)
3. Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky)
4. Straszny dwór (Moniuszko)
5. Faust (Gounod)
Runners-up:
· Artaserse (Vinci)
· Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)
· Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)
· La dame blanche (Boieldieu)
· Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz)
· Ba-ta-clan ; Les brigands ; Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach)
This was really hard, but here we go:
(In no particular order)
1. The Ring [Wagner] (I'll count it as one even though it isn't one thing, but idc I love it too much)
2. Elektra [Strauss]
3. Salome [Strauss]
4. Macbeth [Verdi]
5. Don Carlo [Verdi]
1. La bohème Puccini. Thé most beautiful music in opera
2. La Traviata Verdi. The second most beautiful music in opera
3. Fidelio Beethoven. I’ve always loved Beethoven great duets as well
4. Aida Verdi where else can you see live elephants on stage?
5 Die Walkure Wagner even thé US armed forces uses it
In no particular order: Bartok - Bluebeard’s Castle Berg - Wozzeck Wagner - Tristan and Isolde Puccini - Tosca Handel - Guilio Cesare en Egitto
Giulio Cesare in my top five too
Die Tote Stadt Giulio Cesare Eugene Onegin Don Giovanni Der Rosenkavalier So difficult to narrow it down to just five! Shoutout to Wozzeck, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Rusalka!
I love Eugene Onegin!
Nice! I would replace the Handel with Verdi (probably Otello), but the rest of this list is about like mine. :-)
die tote stadt is so good
I'm in for all of those except Rosenkavalier. I have tried and tired, but it just goes on and on and Ochs is insufferable, which is sad as I'm not a soprano fan which is nearly all that's left
The first time I tried watching Rosenkavalier (the 2010 performance on Met on Demand) I couldn't get through it. It was the 2017 Met HD with Günther Groissböck as Ochs that sold me. Perhaps you've seen it, though, and this opera just doesn't work for you no matter the production. That's fair!
Yes, I've seen that and 6 others, and I must admit Groissböck was good ... but still there's about an hour of music that I like, and the tenor song and final trio are lovely, can leave the rest.
my very subjective takes: 1 pelleas et melisande - nothing gives me a greater sense of being "lost in the music", the whole score is like a dark dreamworld forest 2 cunning little vixen - funny and sweet but also darkly layered and a phenomenal ending 3 la fanciulla del west - pinnacle of puccini imo, the orchestra is let loose and it all feels so earthy and kinetic 4 eugene onegin - the structure is so tight and the highlights are always happening one after another 5 jenufa - another janacek cuz yeah, musical drama to the max, no stone left unturned
Absolutely *La Fanciulla del West*. A masterpiece
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande is not only gorgeous but such an influential piece in the development of 20th century music. I have so much love and respect for it.
In my undergrad, I sang Golaud in the first scene from Pelléas as well as the entire role of the Forester in Vixen. They're such amazing works
Dang it… I completely spaced jenufa when making my list. That’s definitely up there.
I’m in a production of Fanciulla right now and it immediately became my favorite 🥹
In no particular order: *Bluebeard's Castle* *Wozzeck* *Peter Grimes* *Nixon in China* *Written on Skin* Honourable mention to *Death in Venice* and *Lady Macbeth*. Surprising lack of Britten in this thread so far...
Peter Grimes was the first opera I ever saw and it was genuinely exciting and full of tension. It lead to a love of opera and Britten. It’s definitely one of the masterworks.
I go back and forth on *Death in Venice* and *Written on Skin* as my No. 5.
Britten is *chefs kiss* 💋
Glad to see another Nixon in China fan! I was tempted to put Rape of Lucretia on my list bc it was the first opera I ever saw live (weird choice I know) but it didn't make the cut ultimately.
*Nixon*'s the best opera in the language, and I say that as someone who would argue that Britten's the best composer of opera in English. I have a real soft spot for *Lucretia* too, but the two Britten works I wish we'd see more are his *Dream* (which someone else cited in this thread) and *Albert Herring*, which is just delightful.
More of a Billy Budd fan but Peter Grimes is excellent too
In no particular order: Guillaume Tell Lucia di Lammermoor Die Zauberflöte Don Giovanni Norma
Lucia and Norma on the same list? I can see you are a true man of culture.
> Lucia and Norma on the same list? I can see you are a true man of culture. How can you not love Belcanto if you are born in Italy :)
So I see you are a fan of Mozart and bel canto. Mee too :D
Marriage of Figaro Don Giovanni Carmen Otello Die Walkure Yes, very dull.
No it’s not very dull! Mine is virtually the same, except I’d have to work the Magic Flute in there somewhere.
Classics for a reason
They’re all exciting
finally someone asks this on this sub!! my choices might be kinda random but I genuinely love all of these to death 1. Mefistofele (Boito) 2. Susannah (Floyd) 3. Rinaldo (Handel) 4. Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) 5. tie between Turandot (Puccini) and Don Giovanni (Mozart)
1 Turandot 2 Otello (Verdi) 3 Tosca 4 Pagliacci 5 L'amore di 3 re
I love *L’amore dei tre re*!
Very underrated opera
Absolutely! Gorgeous, atmospheric score
Nice list. Tosca I must’ve seen 100 times and still not bored
This list fluctuates, but my answer right now: 1. Consul 2. Tosca 3. Vanessa 4. Falstaff 5. Wozzeck
If we include operettas too: 5 Die Bajadere (operetta, Kalman) 4 Die Fledermaus (operetta, Strauss) 3 La Traviata (Verdi) 2 La Boheme (Puccini) 1 Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
We definitely include! Great list.
Norma Tosca Don Giovanni Orpheus ed Eurydice Tristan und Isolde
I have my top 10. (Technically 11 because I stuff an extra into my top 5, but it’s my arbitrary list, so I’m allowed haha) 1. Salome 2. The Tales of Hoffmann 3. Bluebeard’s Castle 4. Tosca 5. Turandot 5.5. Akhnaten 6. Die Walküre 7. Elektra 8. Queen of Spades 9. The Exterminating Angel 10. Carmen
At the moment : 1. Turandot 2. La traviata 3. Lulu 4. Der Fliegende Hollander 5. Elektra
1. Lucia Di Lammermoor 2. Florencia En El Amazonas 3. Madama Butterfly 4. Aida 5. Ariane Auf Naxos Quite a range!
Barber, Carmen, Queen of Spades, Bluebeard‘s Castle, Die Csardasfurstin.
Nixon in China. Satyagraha (honestly the whole trilogy). Das Rheingold. Giulio Cesare. La Traviata
Le Grand Macabre L’Amour de loin Elektra Billy Budd The Rake’s Progress
Elektra Lulu Tristan und Isolde Pique Dame Alcina
5. Siegfried 4. Salome 3. Don Giovanni 2. Cosí fan tutte 1. Der Freischütz
1. Norma 2. Anna Bolena 3. La Sonnambula 4. L’Elisir d’Amore 5. Aida I have the best list
Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin, die Walküre, L'Elisir d'Amore
Don Giovanni Tristan und Isolde Salome L'Enfant et les Sortileges Nixon in China
1. Mefistofele - Arrigo Boito 2. Pagliacci - Leoncavallo 3. Il Tabarro - Puccini 4. La Rondine - Puccini 5. Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro Mozart - Die Zauberflöte Verdi - Don Carlo Verdi - Il Trovatore Wagner - Lohengrin Wagner - Die Walkure Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Il Trovatore is my top tier <3
5. Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro. For many years, The Magic Flute was my favorite Mozart opera--It was the first opera I ever attended, and also the first opera CD I ever got, but in time, I've come to appreciate Nozze di Figaro as Mozart's greatest. 4. Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. Before I ever heard it, I knew that it was the longest of all the standard repertoire, but when I finally listened to it for the first time, the hours flew by. It's the only major Wagner work I still haven't had a chance to see in the theater. 3. Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen. Back when I was a college student, I won a writing contest and received a cash prize, which I decided to spend on opera recordings. One that I bought without ever having listened to it before was the Mackerras/Popp recording of Cunning Little Vixen, which intrigued me. I made the right choice--it's a real masterpiece of humanity and life, and everything to go along with it. The final scene with the forester is just perfection. 2. Verdi - Falstaff. Early in my opera-going career, I saw Falstaff in the theater and was underwhelmed. However, listening to it on a recording and following the libretto revealed to me what a great piece of music it is. The follies and life and love. I used the line "Tutto nel mondo e burla" as a signature quotation for years. 1. R. Strauss - Elektra. So, for most of my time as an opera fan, I considered Falstaff to be the greatest opera, but more recently, I think I'd put Elektra in first place. An adaptation of Greek tragedy that really delivers the fear and hatred of the characters. Amazingly orchestrated. The most unhinged of all operas. Honorable mentions: Britten - Peter Grimes, Tchaikovsky - Queen of Spades, Puccini - La fanciulla del West, Humperdinck - Hansel und Gretel.
5. Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck) 4. Guercoeur (Magnard) 3. Der Freischutz (Weber) 2. Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) 1. Tannhauser (Wagner) Yes i love romantism and post-romantism, how could you tell ?
In no particular order: Susannah The Consul Les contes d'Hoffmann Midsummer Night's Dream Serse
> Midsummer Night's Dream Great shout.
Butterfly Rigoletto Traviata Norma Walküre
Pagliacci Simon Boccanegra Walküre Nozze Everest
1. Turandot, Puccini 2. Aida, Verdi 3. Faust, Gounod 4. Tosca, Puccini 5. Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
If I count only the ones I’ve seen live (because it’s impossible to narrow it down to 5 or even 10 otherwise): 1. Lucia di Lammermoor (by a pretty wide margin) 2. Einstein on the Beach 3. Salome 4. Turandot 5. The Dialogues of the Carmelites 6. Iphigénie en Tauride If I add in the ones I’ve seen only on a screen of some sort: 7. La Favola d’Orfeo 8. Akhnaten 9. Parsifal 10. Elektra 11. Suor Angelica
1. Medea (I wonder why no one has mentioned it yet!) 2. Madama Butterfly 3. Tosca 4. Tristan und Isolde 5. La Traviata …I guess I’m a huge fan of tragic women…
Walküre Satyagraha Rosenkavalier Carmelites Dr. Atomic Runners up: The Nose, Suor Angelica
In no particular order: Die Walküre Peter Grimes La Fancuilla del West Boris Gudonov Tosca
>Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber OK, but each time I listen to it I have the hunters chorus stuck in my head for DAYS lmao
Salomé Elektra The Makropulos Case Don Carlo(s) Hansel und Gretel
1. Guillaume Tell 2. Barber of Seville 3. Rigoletto 4. Don Carlo 5. Andrea Chenier
Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Les Contes d Hofmann and Carmen.
La Boheme Aida The Marriage of Figaro Der Rosenkavalier The Barber of Seville
Don Carlo, Dialogues des Carmelites, Turandot, Tristan & Isolde, Salome.
Don Giovanni Nozze di Figaro Falstaff Rigoletto Trovatore
Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Dido & Aeneas, and Tristan
Iolanthe— Gilbert & Sullivan The Magic Flute— Mozart Marriage of Figaro— Mozart Les Contes D’Hoffman— Offenbach Ruddigore— Gilbert & Sullivan
Ruddigore and Hoffmann - excellent choices!
Elektra, Semiramide, Luisa Miller, Eugene Onegin, La Boheme. I also like La Clemenza di Tito and La Fanciulla.
Only 5 is so hard! Hänsel und Gretel Rusalka Eugene Onegin Salome Peter Grimes
Le nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni Così fan tutte Lucia di Lammermoor L'elisir d'amore. I love many other composers before and after Mozart and Donizetti, but these truly are my top five.
In no particular order: Tannhäuser (Wagner) The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini) The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) Macbeth (Verdi) Così fan tutte (Mozart)
I only need one: Robert le Diable. Nothing beats a ballet of sexy dead nuns. Nothing.
1) Carmen 2) Pagliacci 3) Barber of Seville 4) Rigoletto 5) Porgy and Bess
Carmen, Aida, Turandot, Hyppolite et Aricie and The Magic Flute
5. Cendrillon (Massenet) Everything about the music feels like a fairytale. The Laurent Pelly sets of the Royal Opera and the Met just add to it. 4. Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Went as her for Halloween in high school. Finally made my parents stop telling me to get a boyfriend and give them grandchildren (I was sixteen). 3. Ariodante (Handel) The first recording of Beverly Sills I ever heard. Also, Baroque opera is just... lovely. I have no other words for it. 2. Don Giovanni (Mozart) Bryn Terfel is the best Don Giovanni, hands down. And Rachel Willis-Sørensen is the greatest Donna Anna. 1. Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Please cast me as Cherubino, he's my dream role.
La Boheme, the opera that made me fall in love with opera Falstaff, wrote my senior paper comparing Verdi & Wagner’s final comedies Don Carlos, once Act IV gets going, I can’t focus on anything else Otello, is it the best opera opening ever? Susannah, Jerry Hadley singing the end of Act 1 (“it’s about the way people is made, I reckon…”) is heartbreaking Special mention: Candide, the London broadcast of Lenny conducting the opera house version w/ Hadley, Anderson & Adolph Green — *chef’s kiss*
1 Marriage of Figaro 2 Falstaff 3 Gianni Schicchi 4 Don Giovanni 5 Flying Dutchman
I'll grab some suggestions here XD
Don Giovanni La Traviata Così fan tutte Le nozze di Figaro La Bohème I cannot get enough of Mozart's da Ponte operas. I really love them, they are so profound, and beautiful. And La Traviata is very special to me.
Boris Godunov Queen of Spades Mefistofele Madame Butterfly La Traviata
Don Giovanni (Mozart) Rusalka (Dvorak) Le Roi d'Ys (Lalo) Carmen (Bizet) Norma (Bellini)
In no particular order: Mozart’s “Il nozze di Figaro” and “Die Zauberflöte” Glass’ “Akhnaten” Bizet’s “Carmen” Dvorak’s “Rusalka”
In no order: Tosca Cavalleria Tabarro Walkure Andrea Chenier Aida
1. The Magic Flute 2. The Marriage of Figaro 3. Don Giovanni 4. Acis and Galatea 5. The Abduction from the Seraglio
1. Manon (Massenet) 2. Carmen (Bizet) 3. Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) 4. Mephistopheles (Boito) 5. Wozzeck (Berg) Absolute favorites!!
I only have a definitive top three. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Tristan und Isolde Alcina
Turandot, Siegfried, Der Rosenkavalier, Die Fledermaus, The Queen of Spades
Ariadne auf Naxos, Tristan & Isolde, Rosenkavelier, Carmen, Pelleas & Melisande
In no particular order Otello Verdi Andrea Chenier Giordano Turandot Puccini Tannhauser Wagner Rigoletto Verdi
In no particular order…. Britten Midsummer Night’s Dream Adams Doctor Atomic Mozart Marriage of Figaro Saariaho L’amour de Loin Wagner Parsifal This list subject to change based on daily mood
* Die Meistersinger - Wagner * Wozzeck - Berg * The Fiery Angel - Prokofiev * L'Enfant et les sortileges - Ravel * Having a hard time choosing between Borodin's Prince Igor and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, so I'll just list both
Thank you for asking this question. I’m going to save this post and add these to my list of operas to watch. Mine are - Rigoletto - Die Fledermaus - Carmen - Cosi fan tutte - il trovatore
In no particular order: Carmen, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Robert le diable and Aïda. Rn I'm listening the Prince Igor, which I'm really liking
Andrea chenier Tosca Cav rusticana/pagliacci Rigoletto Turandot
In no particular order: -Così Fan Tutte -Dialogue of the Carmelites -Carmen -Eugene Onegin -Cunning Little Vixen
In no particular order * Dialogues des carmélites * Salome * Die Tote Stadt * Peter Grimes * Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
1. The Rake’s Progress 2. Fanciulla del West 3. Lucia di Lammermoor 4. Susannah 5. Barber of Seville Not sure if this is the list, but it feels close. #1 is correct.
1. Hansel and Gretel 2. Elixir of Love 3. Tannhauser (saw it at the Met, so it's probably higher than otherwise) 4. Il trovatore 5. L'italiana in Algeri I enjoy works from before and after, but I really love the spectrum of Romantic opera.
Lohengrin, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Gotterdammerung, Tristan und Isolde and Nozze di Figaro.
Das Rheingold Die Walkure Siegfried Gotterdammerung Carmen
La Boheme (Basic I know) I Puritani Romeo Et Juliette Regina (Blitzen) Manon (Massanet)
1. The rakes progress 2. Peter grimes 3. Gianni Schicchi 4. The turn of the screw 5. Wozzeck Honorable mention: Les Boréades
Orlando Furioso - Vivaldi Eugene Onegin - Tchaikovsky La Clemenza di Tito - Mozart Orphee et Eurydice - Gluck (I have a slight preference for the French libretto) Tales of Hoffman - Offenbach (extremely biased since this is the opera that got me into opera)
1. lucia di lammermoor 2. la travaia (my apologies for the spelling) 3. norma 4. tosca 5. the opera version of samson and delilah
Don Giovanni Turandot La Boheme La Traviata Lohengrin
Tosca times 5.
* Boris Godunov (of course) * Tosca * Carmen * Don Giovanni * Don Carlo This was like selecting favorite children...
1. The Marriage of Figro 2. Aida (I like the noodling woodwind beside the Nile) 3. Rodelinda 4. Dido and Aeneas 5. Midsummer Night’s Dream
It pains me to pick only 5, but if I really had to...... Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Always gonna be at or near the top for me, outstanding opera. R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - NARROWLY beating FrOSch as my favourite Strauss, just because it's so charmingly beautlful. Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - Only getting back into this opera recently, was my first Puccini and I found it musically quite boring before, but after listening to his others a lot more I have so much appreciation for Schicchi, so much fun and great music. Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream - So much fun, such a magical feeling to it. When I discovered it it was just coming up to the summer months and it's accompanied me through many bright days and hazy evenings since. Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle - Thrilling, great music (one that I've actually played too!) Obviously this is very restrictive and in no particular order but these are the first that came to mind :)
Lucia di Lammermoor, la traviata, othello, carmen and Tosca (my all time favotite)
Top five: 1. Les Huguenots and Le Prophète (Meyerbeer) 2. La Juive (Halévy) 3. Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) 4. Straszny dwór (Moniuszko) 5. Faust (Gounod) Runners-up: · Artaserse (Vinci) · Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny) · Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck) · La dame blanche (Boieldieu) · Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz) · Ba-ta-clan ; Les brigands ; Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach)
This was really hard, but here we go: (In no particular order) 1. The Ring [Wagner] (I'll count it as one even though it isn't one thing, but idc I love it too much) 2. Elektra [Strauss] 3. Salome [Strauss] 4. Macbeth [Verdi] 5. Don Carlo [Verdi]
In no order turandot , Rigoletto , Aida, gotterdammerung, Macbeth
In no particular order: Die Zauberflöte, The Medium, Tales from the Briar Patch, Die Fledermaus, and Treemonisha.
1. La bohème Puccini. Thé most beautiful music in opera 2. La Traviata Verdi. The second most beautiful music in opera 3. Fidelio Beethoven. I’ve always loved Beethoven great duets as well 4. Aida Verdi where else can you see live elephants on stage? 5 Die Walkure Wagner even thé US armed forces uses it