Does anyone else on the forum enjoy operas? Or has been to one? Has a favorite?

My favorite would have to be La Traviata .. or maybe La Boheme.

I really enjoy tenors or male voice choirs etc but i have seen a few operas and I realised that I just can't stand female opera voices.

I like the really big German operas that go on for DAYS, all of them written by Richard Wagner and require 100 piece orchestras. I think this is why I also like Industrial Metal as well. Anything loud. But not when it's my neighbours' stereo!!!!!


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I love opera, too! My favorite is "The Mikado"!


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I love Gilbert and Sullivan,but find most serious opera a bit too heavy,bobbo


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I love Puccini's Turandot. The best performance on record was Pavarotti. I also like 'Il Pagliacci and Cavelarria Rusticana. My main interest lies in orchestral music. Mahler,Shostakovich,Dvorak,Tchiakovsky,Florent Schmitt!,Hans Rott! I love the well known but I also love the obscure,little known,underappreciated composers. I have 1000 records! I am largely self-taught in classical music,but I know a lot about it.I would love to correspond with people about the wonders of classical music. And,someday I WILL CONDUCT a famous orchestra,maybe the vienna philharmonic.


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I like Pucini, especially Madame Butterfly. Sadly I don't get to actually see many though.

I'm not an opera fan, but I once saw Bizet's Carmen, which I thought was fantasic.


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i LOVE Puccini operas. But I have to SEE them...I can't just listen to a recording
and get the same feel. And I abhor female operatic voices...and I used to be
one! I started out studying opera in college, and it just wasn't for me. There's
something about the sound that's just...not human? I don't know...for me it was
never earthy enough. Now I sing a classical/vintage jazz/Broadway cabaret style
that's a lot smoother and easier for non-opera lovers to relate to. And it makes
me happier