What opera have you been listening to, lately?

[Soave_Fanciulla]

[Clayton]

it's still in the ulp...

any comment?

or

"wait and see"

[Bertie Wooster]

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Oh wow, this one I don't know.

I knew about it from a paper I did on Dvorak once. The English title is The King and the Charcoal Burner (or Collier). It's either his first or one of his first. He wrote it once in a highly Wagnerian style, then completely rewrote it without any of the original music when it was turned down.

[Festat]

[Soave_Fanciulla]

it's still in the ulp...

any comment?

or

"wait and see"

It's fairly pleasant, nothing special. I definitely don't like one of the sopranos.

[Ann Lander (sospiro)]

It's a nice afternoon, but I have to admit that I tend to get frustrated by music without singing. What's the point? I know, I know, I've gotten old and crotchety.

You and me both (not the bit about old and crotchety) - I went to a ballet at ROH and I kept thinking to myself 'when do they start singing?' Sacrilege I know and apologies to ballet fans.

Listened to this yesterday.

[Soave_Fanciulla]

This is a brilliant version of a brilliant opera. Have I missed something, or is Dido and Aeneas missing from our top 200 operas. I've looked through the list three times and can't seem to find it.

[Hoffmann]

I, too, went with Verdi yesterday, falling back on one of my favorites. I can't get enough of Elena Suliotis and, while I know Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is not much in favor here, I love his Macbeth and Nicolai Ghiaurov's Banquo - a great display of low voices. Honorable mention goes to an early Luciano Pavarotti's terrific Macduff (recording is 1970).

[Hoffmann]

This is a brilliant version of a brilliant opera. Have I missed something, or is Dido and Aeneas missing from our top 200 operas. I've looked through the list three times and can't seem to find it.

You're right - as always. Dido is a terrific opera and should be on our list. I'm afraid, though, that if we redid the list everyone would cut Semiramide and La Donna del Lago

[Florestan]

[Soave_Fanciulla]

You're right - as always. Dido is a terrific opera and should be on our list. I'm afraid, though, that if we redid the list everyone would cut Semiramide and La Donna del Lago

I was going to suggest that it's certainly better than Masnadieri!

[Soave_Fanciulla]

[Clayton]

This is a brilliant version of a brilliant opera. Have I missed something, or is Dido and Aeneas missing from our top 200 operas. I've looked through the list three times and can't seem to find it.

I can't even see it in the appendix listing the "didn't quite make it" ones; though Porgy and Bess is listed and I can't even remember that ever been posted in the "what have you been listening to" thread.

Listening preferences must be changing, just like mine are quite different to when we listed our favourites then...

[Hoffmann]

What do you think of these two recordings? I've been tempted to buy Djamileh, but it's hard to find out much about it.

[Povero Buoso]

I can't even see it in the appendix listing the "didn't quite make it" ones; though Porgy and Bess is listed and I can't even remember that ever been posted in the "what have you been listening to" thread.

Listening preferences must be changing, just like mine are quite different to when we listed our favourites then...

Oh that reminds me now that dissertation work has cleared up I can restart the project to find an alternative next tier list of operas that might well have a vote. Will probably start a new thread over the coming days of operas where significant interest has been shown and we can also have any recent recommendations that may have been overlooked at the time due to our members changing tastes and or the addition of new recent members who didn't vote last time but would have significant interest in adding a few overlooked favourites to be discussed and debated.