Favorite Operas

[vcoheda]

List your favorite 10 or so operas. Just curious what people like. Here are mine, in no order.

1. La Traviata
2. Lucia di Lammermoor
3. Fidelio
4. Norma
5. Cavalleria rusticana
6. Orfeo ed Euridice
7. Faust
8. Die Frau ohne Schatten
9. Giulio Cesare in Egitto
10. Die Zauberflöte
11. Parsifal
12. Der Ring des Nibelungen
13. Roméo et Juliette
14. Werther
15. La Bohème

A longer list than I intended, but I was unable to stop at 10.

Looking at this list, I see two notable ommissions, no Rossini (Barber) and no Bizet (Carmen). Those are great operas, but they just don't make my list.

 

[mbhaub]

1) Hansel und Gretel
2) Carmen
3) Salome
4) The Queen of Sheba
5) Flying Dutchman
6) Notre Dame
7) Schwanda, the Bagpiper
8) Rusalka
9) The Dead City
10) Queen of Spades

...yes, I like the fringe operas.

 

[Aman]

My all-time favorite:

Verdi's Falstaff. What a beautiful piece!

 

[FalconP]

I don't have as many opera recordings as I wish (although I'll work on that) A short list of favorites:

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Wagner
Peter Grimes -- Britten
The Turn of the Screw -- Britten
Don Giovanni -- Mozart
Elektra -- R. Strauss
Aida -- Verdi
Bluebeard's Castle -- Bartok
Pelléas et Mélisande -- Debussy (the plot is unfathomable, but what music!)

 

[Wmcmanus]

I mostly like the Phantom of the Opera, but Days of Our Lives and the Young and the Restless are pretty good too.

 

[Purgatos]

1. Don Giovanni

Alright so it just wins because I saw it live in Vienna at a festival for Mozart's 250th, but it was beyond amazing.

 

[Ruggerio79]

Tristan And Isolde.

 

[zotjen]

In no particular order:

Aida
The Ring
La Traviata
Cavalleria Rusticana
Mefistofele
Elektra
Tristan und Isolde
Lucia di Lammermoor
Turandot
Don Carlo

 

[calaf]

Falstaff (Toscanini, NBC)
Figaro (Jacobs, Concerto Koln)
Don Giovanni (Harnoncourt Zurich, DVD)
Rigoletto (Gobbi, Callas,Di Stefano La Scala)
Zauberflote (Abbado Modena)
Traviata (Netrebko, Villazon DVD)
Rheingold (Boulez Bayreuth, DVD)
Walkure (Baremboim Bayreuth, DVD)
Boheme (Freni, Pavarotti, Karajan BPO)
Bluebeard's Castle (Fisher-Dieskau, Varady)
Turandot (Sutherland Pavarotti)
Poppea (Mc Nair, von Otter, Gardiner)
Cenerentola (Bartoli, Houston DVD)
Idomeneo (Domingo, Bartoli, Met)

whoops! I am over 10 already, I'll stop there...

 

[Raptor34]

1. Salome
2. Turandot
3. Gotterdammerung
4. Tosca
Just four, sorry

 

[bigshot]

No order here...

Magic Flute
The Ring
Traviata
Rigoletto
Barber of Seville
Lucia
Lohengrin
Tristan
Trovatore
Freischutz

Not a big fan of Puccini here.

See ya
Steve

 

[b17m4p]

Can anyone recomend any recordings of these keeping in mind that Im a total noob in this genra

 

[calaf]

Quote:

Originally Posted by b17m4p Can anyone recomend any recordings of these keeping in mind that Im a total noob in this genra

you want us to work hard! I have done it for my list. Since you are a self-proclamed noob I tried to indicate a DVD or a modern recording wherever possible.

 

[milkpowder]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ruggerio79 Tristan And Isolde.

Oh yes!

I love opera, but I haven't got much experience.

In no particular order:
Tristan und Isolde
Otello
Magic Flute
Le Nozze di Figaro
Cossi fan tutte
L'Elisir d'Amore
Thais
La traviata
Carmen
Macbeth
Pelléas et Mélisande
Tosca
Turando

 

[JefferyK]

My ten desert island operas, In no particular order:

"Fidelio"
"Pelleas et Melisande"
"Aida"
"Samson et Dalila"
"Salome"
"Elektra"
"Rigoletto"
"Il Trovatore"
"Don Giovanni"
"La Traviata"

Jeffery