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Vacation and opera!
I'm now on what will likely be the last opera of this vacation. What started me on this is hearing "Pirate Jenny" from The Threepenny Opera at a Dresden Dolls concert. I'm not sure why I kept going after that. Whatever the reason, I've listened to and sorta-watched a whole lot of opera this vacation: 18 done, and a 19th — Verdi's La Traviata — in progress. In order, so far as I recall:
The Threepenny Opera (in English) (and part 2), Weill & Brecht
Die Fledermaus, Strauss (conducted by Placido Domingo, with a call-out by him from the pit, and to him from the stage, in the production)
Die Zauberflöte, Mozart
The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan
Rinaldo, Handel
Carmen, Bizet
Pagliacci, Leoncavallo
Fidelio, Beethoven
Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky
Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner, comprising:
Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini
Aïda, Verdi (possibly missing one act?)
Fra Diavolo, Auber (I could find productions only in Italian or German, not the original French, nor in English translation, so I went for Italian on the idea it was closer to the original than German.)
Madama Butterfly, Puccini
La Traviata, Verdi
I may well keep going after this, but at nowhere near the sheer number per day. Headphones don't really make sense with the dynamics of work. Many thanks for the recommendations! In case it's useful to anyone else, one useful reference I found along the way was Operabase for listings of recent popular opera productions, among other things, on their statistics page.
I may well keep going after this, but at nowhere near the sheer number per day. Headphones don't really make sense with the dynamics of work. Many thanks for the recommendations! In case it's useful to anyone else, one useful reference I found along the way was Operabase for listings of recent popular opera productions, among other things, on their statistics page.