Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 16, 2017 21:47:25 GMT
Following on from Plays and Musicals
Opera I hate: Simon Boccanegra - I don't think I have ever been so bored as when I saw this at ENO
Opera I think is overrated: I have never got Janacek... sorry but I haven't
Opera I think is underrated: Agrippina (Handel) or Le Conte Ory (Rossini)
Opera I Love:
Don Giovanni
Opera I Cherish: Don Carlo(s) - I love the score so much. Forza del Destino might well come a close second
Guilty Pleasure: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Offenbach wrote some pretty amazing tunes
Opera I want to see revived: Der Vampyr (Marschner)
Opera that I first performed in: La Boheme (as chorus), Beggar's Opera (as principal - if you can call Nimming Ned a principal, he is at least a named character, otherwise it would be Monostatos in Flute)
Opera that I first saw: Magic Flute (Kent Opera tour back in the 80s)
Opera I saw most recently: Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
Greatest Opening: Peter Grimes - oh yes
Greatest Ending: La Boheme - those final chords are guaranteed to make me weep
Worst middle of an otherwise Great Opera: Much as I love Cosi, I don't think it has ever held my attention in the same way as the other big Mozart pieces. Doesn't mean it is bad - it is just not great
Greatest Opera of all time: It is probably between Le Nozze di Figaro and Giovanni - I couldn't live without either
Opera I hate: Simon Boccanegra - I don't think I have ever been so bored as when I saw this at ENO
Opera I think is overrated: I have never got Janacek... sorry but I haven't
Opera I think is underrated: Agrippina (Handel) or Le Conte Ory (Rossini)
Opera I Love:
Don Giovanni
Opera I Cherish: Don Carlo(s) - I love the score so much. Forza del Destino might well come a close second
Guilty Pleasure: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Offenbach wrote some pretty amazing tunes
Opera I want to see revived: Der Vampyr (Marschner)
Opera that I first performed in: La Boheme (as chorus), Beggar's Opera (as principal - if you can call Nimming Ned a principal, he is at least a named character, otherwise it would be Monostatos in Flute)
Opera that I first saw: Magic Flute (Kent Opera tour back in the 80s)
Opera I saw most recently: Roberto Devereux (Donizetti)
Greatest Opening: Peter Grimes - oh yes
Greatest Ending: La Boheme - those final chords are guaranteed to make me weep
Worst middle of an otherwise Great Opera: Much as I love Cosi, I don't think it has ever held my attention in the same way as the other big Mozart pieces. Doesn't mean it is bad - it is just not great
Greatest Opera of all time: It is probably between Le Nozze di Figaro and Giovanni - I couldn't live without either
