Your favourite operas?

[la_carrenio2003]

My top 5 are:

1. The Pique's Dame, P.I. Tchaikovsky
2. La Boheme, Puccini
3. Butterfly, Puccini
4. Eugene Oneguin, Tchaikovsky
5. Werther, Massenet

[eddie92099]

What about Wozzeck by Berg - that's awesome,
Ed

[la_carrenio2003]

That's a cool one,but it requires, for me,an effort to "enjoy". I love Schnitke and Shostakovich's stuff, but I can't say they're my favourites. I see you have a certain contemporary taste,don't you?

[eddie92099]

Well Berg is as far as I'll go into complete atonality. I don't play much contemporary music though, the only thing I'm about to play that is newish is Rautavaara's second sonata but that was written in the 70s I think,
Ed

[Noah]

My favourite operas are Mozart's operas, and most of all Die Zauberflöte. Then,
Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
Many Handel operas
Bizet - Carmen
Berg - Wozzeck
Janacek - Katya Kabanova

And many others, but it's also related to the staging I saw

[BuyBuy]

I like Verdi "Un Ballo in Maschera" and "Rigoletto", Wagner last part of the Ring, Rossini "Il barbiero di Sevilla", Schoenberg "Pierrot lunaire" and, even if it's more a musical then an opera, Bernstein "West Side Story".

[Hmoll]

Puccini - Turandot

Mozart - Magic Flute

Verdi - La Traviata

Wagner - Parsifal.

[tosca1]

There are many parallels between opera and playing the piano on various levels.  On a purely musical level it is the range of the piano and its resources of dramatic colour and effect that can express the quasi melodramatic quality of much of the piano music of Franz Liszt.  Opera is essentially drama expressed primarily through music which through the medium of the voice can touch our hearts and ears directly.
My favourites are:

Rossini    "The Barber of Seville"

Mozart   "Cosi Fan Tutte"

Verdi   " Aida"    "Don Carlo"   "La Traviata"   "Ballo in Maschera"

Puccini     "Turandot"  "Tosca"   "Madama Butterfly"  "La Bohème"

Tchaikovsky   "Eugene Onegin"

Thank you,
Robert.

[thracozaag]

Pelleas might not only be my favorite opera, but my favorite piece, on certain days.  

[ahmedito]

Wozzek is cool. I also like Lulu.

But my favorite above all is the Magic Flute. Or for that matter, any other by Mozart. They are all cool. I love the opening act in Figaro. She's all happy about the wedding, He's measuring the space for the bed...  

[BoliverAllmon]

I agree with the Mozart. They are magnificent.

I just watched for the first time Prokofiev's "Love for Three Oranges" and thought is was amazing. They had the crowd rolling the entire opera.

I also enjoy Verdi's "la Traviata (sp?)

boliver

[arcadi]

magic flute by  long way. also carmen.
and figaro(mozart) - namely the aria in act 2 "susanna or via sortite" which includes the most incredible descending passage i've ever heard.

[khatunaninidze]

That's a cool one,but it requires, for me,an effort to "enjoy". I love Schnitke and Shostakovich's stuff, but I can't say they're my favourites. I see you have a certain contemporary taste,don't you?

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