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Opera edition.
Post about your favorite operas, singers, conductors, shit on Puccini, wish Boulez blew up opera houses, etc.
>inb4 how do I into classical
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Are there any good operas that've been written recently?
>>62574796
No.
>>62574796
How recent are we talking? There's been a number of pretty good operas written within the last ten years or so, if that's recent enough for you.
>>62576522
I was thinking even the past 30 years, so that works plenty fine.
1. Pelléas et Mélisande
2. Don Giovanni
3. From the House of the Dead
4. Boris Godunov
5. Der Freischütz
6. Castor et Pollux
7. Moses und Aron
8. Tale of Tsar Sultan
9. Salome
10. Carmen
Whats your 10 /classical/?
>>62577264
1. Marriage of Figaro
2. Don Giovanni
3. Wozzeck
4. Elektra
5. Falstaff
6. Tristan und Isolde
7. L'incoronazione di Poppea
8.The Cunning Little Vixen
9. La traviata
10. Barber of Seville
>>62577264
Wozzeck, Gotterdammerung, Parsifal, House of the Dead, Magic flute, Moses, Oedipe, Elektra, Otello
Are the ones I feel comfortable enough naming. I really need to revisit Pelleas for awhile, it's been awhile since I have listened to it
>>62574796
Were there ever?
The Portrait Trilogy
>>62577264
>>62577549
>>62577573
>not all Mozart operas
Further proof
Current favourite operas (in no particular order):
Krol Roger - Szymanowski
Billy Budd - Britten
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali - Donizetti
Parsifal - Wagner
Orlando - Handel
Les Troyens - Berlioz
The Lighthouse - Maxwell-Davies
Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart
The King Goes Forth to France - Sallinen
Bluebeard's Castle - Bartok
>>62574796
The first three that come to mind written in the 21st century are:
The Minotaur - Birtwhistle
Doctor Atomic - Adams
The Tempest - Ades
>trying so hard to be le sophisticated gentleman.
>*tips opera glasses*
m'lady
>>62578795
Hello champion of the common man
I got McClary's book 'Feminine Endings' out of the library to see just how bad it is and it's managed to surpass my wildest imagination.
My favourite bit so far is how she sees the film Jaws as a male fear of vagina dentata. What sort of chucklefuck takes this seriously?
>>62579217
My favourite bit so far is how everyone is still pretending to like Bach.
Besides Prog Rock ( or say Prog Rock i don't care), what's your favorite non-classical genre that's heavily influenced by classical music?
>>62580451
Balkan manele.
They ASSAULT the listener.
They BREAK convention.
They DARE to go where no one has ever gone.
They have TITANIC vocal harmonies.
They expression of the human spirit is UNBRIDLED.
>>62580451
memerap
>>62580451
baroque pop
>>62574127
>Shit on Puccini
But why ;_;
>>62581330
Because he basically did what Verdi did after Verdi had already done it better than him.
I do like Puccini a lot anyway though
This is pretty much the only bit of opera I can listen to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463jDvbw3LQ
>inb4 entry level pleb tier
>>62577871
We will never be able to fully appreciate Mozart senpai ;)
oh no steven stucky :(
so young too
>>62584577
For a minute I read STeven Sucky
death
Guys, where do I start with Schoenberg?
>>62587311
His quartets
>>62587311
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqODySSxYpc
>>62587706
>>62587704
Thank you
Oh god, I just found out they played Max Reger's requiem including the Dies Irae in my hometown in 2013. I somehow missed this.
I seriously never felt so bad about missing a musical performance.
>>62576993
There are some good masses from that time period but Nixon in China is the most important opera.
Bump with something SDF posted in an awful thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYFEFXbNeQQ
It sounds to me kinda like what would happen if Schoenberg decided to teach Gershwin.
I've decided to become a countertenor, are there any good pieces I should learn? Already planning on doing Ombra Mai Fu and some of Stabat Mater by Vivaldi.
>>62594162
Also to add: are there any good countertenors to listen to other than Scholl? I've heard a bit of James Bowman and I liked him a lot.
>>62594162
>>62594372
I like this one. Also, Akhenaten in Phillip Glass' Akhenaten is in that voice range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CNQ7jTNJ4
>>62587311
5 pieces for orchestra
>>62580451
Technical Death Metal / Grindcore
>>62574796
Anthony Ritchie's "This Other Eden" premiered last year. Excellent opera.
>>62577264
Orfeo Ed Erudice
Elektra
Rigoletto
Doctor Atomic
Jenufa
Bluebeard's Castle
The miraculous mandarin
Salome
L'Orfeo
Alceste
Gluck's operas really hit the spot
>>62574127
>its an opera thread
ugh
>>62595230
>Technical Death Metal / Grindcore
think you dropped this
>>62580451
Ragtime
>>62577264
1. The Magic Flute
2. Lohengrin
3. Die Nibelungenlied
4. Nixon in China
5. The Marriage of Figaro
6. L'orfeo
7. Bluebeard's Castle
8. Othello
9. Death in Venice
10. Billy Budd
>>62595322
Not OP but if you want to post non-Opera stuff then you should go ahead. Most here like both.
New to /classical/, Don Giovanni from the mega is asking me for a password. What is it, if I might ask?
>>62595322
>he doesn't like opera
>>62595570
Pippo9 probably.
>>62595444
I find it more stimulating than other popular music, but hardly listen to it any more. At least they try to keep it interesting and have something new happening every 10 seconds.
Jazz would be at about the same level for me, highly interesting and varied.
>>62595682
>fat people singing with too much vibrato in a fake voice
Yeah I'll just listen to choral music instead
>>62594162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aShcVtUE3no
>>62595824
thats what you get for listening to modern opera singers :^)
>>62595824
>fat people
>>62596025
probably would have kept her voice longer if she had stayed fat, though
>>62594162
>the based large black man demands your attention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8QTeIxWCEM
Matti Salminen is based
>>62596872
dont you mean BASSed
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>62596942
Pls
>>62589703
My town never has masses or Operas. I'd love to have some.
>>62597138
Feeling privileged living in London hearing this. Can't wait for this year's proms.
>>62577264
I'm seeing the Pelleas this friday, hope it's worth it.
>>62597239
I hope they're good. My town was voted the most boring in the entire state.
angry music? not too chaotic, not too slow, not screechy?
>>62600548
Le Sacre Du printempts
>>62600548
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