Madame Butterfly, Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro -- in general, one way to find interesting operas is to follow an artist rather than the opera.
Maria Callas. Amazing voice. Try Medea (-not- the movie) and Iphigenia (hm, or maybe I'm thinking of the movie, which isn't Callas, or opera, but is impressive -- the opera would be Ifigenia In Tauride).
Kirk Te Kanawa is another amazing voice (you might recognize it from the Fifth Element).
I'm quite fond of Glass, but you've opted out of him ;D That said, Akhnaten has some truly amazing arias for the counter-tenor.
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Date: 2017-11-08 01:15 pm (UTC)Maria Callas. Amazing voice. Try Medea (-not- the movie) and Iphigenia (hm, or maybe I'm thinking of the movie, which isn't Callas, or opera, but is impressive -- the opera would be Ifigenia In Tauride).
Kirk Te Kanawa is another amazing voice (you might recognize it from the Fifth Element).
I'm quite fond of Glass, but you've opted out of him ;D That said, Akhnaten has some truly amazing arias for the counter-tenor.
If you're going to go through the ring cycle, you should also listen to Anna Russell's commentary on the ring cycle.
The Mikado is -not- opera, however -- at best, an operetta (which is certainly fun and enjoyable... but not opera).