I have a confession: there are a buttload of operas, some of them standard, some of them obscure, that I haven't seen in their entirety. Like, a helluva lot. I've listened to some of them, but the magic of opera is in the Gesamtkunstwerk. Most of them, I'm just not particularly interested because there aren't any good mezzo roles in them (unfortunate truth). Like, I hadn't seen Boheme in its entirety until the summer of '16. SO. I'm going to track my list of operas I want to watch in this post. I'll update it as I think of them and move them to the list at the bottom as I check them off. If you have recommendations for certain operas or productions, lay 'em on me! I'll let you know if I've already seen it, but I've seen so many operas that I don't feel like torturing myself trying to list them all here. Maybe I'll start adding ones I've seen as I feel like it/remember. I've seen so much, but there is SO MUCH MORE. GUYS, THERE'S SO MUCH OPERA. :D
Baroque Ariodante (Händel) Partenope Dido and Aeneas Orlando Classical Mitridate (Mozart) Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart) Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart) Romantic L'étoile (Chabrier) Cherubin (Massenet) Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach) Werther (Massenet) Fidelio (Beethoven) Eugene Onegin (Tchaik) The Maid of Orleans (Tchaik) Pique Dame (Tchaik) Otello (Verdi) Nabucco (Verdi) Aida (Verdi) Die Freischutz (Weber) Herodiade (Massenet) Late Romantic The Ring Cycle (Wagner) Arabella (R. Strauss) Capriccio (R. Strauss) Die Frau ohne Schatten Salome - LIVE (I've seen it on film) Tristan und Isolde Modern Lulu Peter Grimes Turn of the screw Midsummer Wozzeck The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Contemporary Dead Man Walking (Heggie) Vanessa (Barber) Little Women (Adamo) Dr. Atomic (Adams) Einstein on the Beach (Glass) Hamlet (Ades) Prince of Players (Floyd) Fantastic Mr. Fox (Picker) Frankenstein (Libby Larsen) Things I've seen (hella incomplete, don't judge me yet): Ainadamar (Gjelo) Albert Herring Alcina L'amour de Loin Ariadne auf Naxos Baby Shower (Bruce Trinkley) Il Barbiere di Siviglia La Boheme Breaking the Waves (Mazzoli) Brokeback Mountain I Capuleti e i Montecchi Carmen Cendrillon Cenerentola La Clemenza di Tito Le Comte Ory Les contes d'Hoffmann Così fan tutte Dolores Claiborne Don Giovanni Elektra L'elisir d'amore L'enfant et les sortileges Falstaff (WITH BRYN TERFEL!!!) La Fanciulla del West La finta giardiniera (Mozart) Die Fledermaus The Flying Dutchman Flight (Dove) Gianni Schicchi Giulio Cesare Higglety Pigglety Pop! Hydrogen Jukebox (Phillip Glass) Idomeneo Iolanthe L'isola disabitata L'Italiana in Algeri Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk The Little Prince Lohengrin Macbeth (Verdi) Madama BUTTerfly Mahagonny Songspiel Les mamelles des Tiresias Manon Manon Lescaut Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) Die Meistersinger von Nurenberg The Merry Widow (sexist) Nixon in China Le nozze di Figaro L'orfeo (Monteverdi) Orfeo ed Euridice Otello (Rossini) Pelleas et Melisande Pirates of Penzance Poliuto (Donizetti) Princess Ida The Rape of Lucretia Das Rheingold Rigoletto Roberto Devereux (amazing!) Romeo et Juliette Der Rosenkavalier Sir John in Love La Sonnambula The Sorcerer Suor Angelica Susannah Sweets by Kate (Griffin Candey) Tannhauser Tosca La Traviata The Wake World (David Herzenberg) Xerxes Die Zauberflöte (my first! I had a friend asleep on each shoulder by 10 minutes in) Die Zigeunerbaron
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