Favourite Operas

[Eisenhans]

What are your favourite operas? Mine are as follows:

Fidelio-Beethoven
Rigoletto-Verdi
die Zauberflote-Mozart
I Puritani-Bellini
Lucia di Lamammoor-Donizzetti
der Ring des Nibelungen-Wagner

[Dan Dare]

Il Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Guilio Cesare (Handel)
Die Zauberfloete (Mozart)
L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato (Handel)*
Peter Grimes (Britten)
Der Ring des Niebelungen (Wagner)

*Strictly speaking a pastorale ode, but operatic in style

[Eisenhans]

Let me add to my list "Don Giovanni" by Mozart.

[maxsnafu]

Hans Pfitzner's "Palestrina"

[Hakluyt]

I prefer music in the form of 'Absolute music', as Brahms put it - a kind of puritanical preference for something that is appreciated abstractly and which doesn't depend on any particular narrative for its impact.

That said, my favourites right now are Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell and Le Roi Arthus by Ernest Chausson.

[Eisenhans]

I hate abstract thinking because it is impossible for me to understand.
Abstract music to me is like abstract art: Degenerate and serves no purpose.

[shanemac]

That one in the bugs bunny cartoon...

"we're going to shoot the wabbit"....
"we're going to shoot the wabbit"...

[Aryan Imperium]

The 4 music dramas that collectively are known as Der Ring des Nibelungen by Wilhelm Richard Wagner.

[Revolution_of_the_Mind]

I particularly love Baroque Operas.