Favorite Operas

[Philip Daniel]

What are your favorite operas and/or music dramas?
My favorites, in chronological order, are:
Lully: Amadis
Alessandro Scarlatti: La Griselda
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
Handel: Giulio Cesar in Egitto
Hasse: Cleofide
Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona
Gluck: Paride e Elena, Alceste, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Echo et Narcisse
Mozart: All Operas
Salieri: Falstaff
Paisello: La Molinara
von Winter: Maometto
Spohr: Zemire und Azor
Rossini: Tancredi, Semiramide, La gazza ladra, La Cenerentola, La donna del lago, Guillaume Tell
Bellini: I Capuletti ed I Montecchi, Norma, La Sonnambula, I Puritani
Verdi: Otello, Falstaff
As you can see, I'm a great "fan" of bel canto opera .

[TheRach]

I find it disgraceful that there are 12 views and no replies.
Uhh...
I like the Magic Flute.

[Chozart]

yeah Magic Flute is good

Of course, Le Nozze di Figaro & Don Giovanni

btw - any1 have a rec of Così fan Tutte?

[Scriabinist]

Korngold: Die Tote stadt
Mozart: Don Giovanni

[beethoven]

Beethoven: Fidelio

Mozart: Nearly all of them

Verdi: Falstaff

[LaPianistaLoca]

Rossini: Tancredi
Mozart: All operas
Verdi: Falstaff

others will come to mind later . . .

[Chozart]

alright.. mah man's among da lead

[aMaDeUs]

mozart's,wagner's and some of the verdi operas(falstaff, otello, traviata)
from mozart(all) mozart is the greatest
from wagner(espesially tristan und isolde, meistersinger von nurnberg, gottedammerung...)