(I am now contemplating the idea of building a list of operas I would like to watch, at least in video form, and what that order might be, and what should be on it, given that these days, there's a fairly wide range of stuff handy.)
I've sung a (cut down, in English) Magic Flute, which I love because it hits my id for musical ridiculousness in about eight places, I've sung Dido and Aeneas, which I also rather like (but has a lousy alto line, and we were desperate for altos, so mezzo-me had to sing alto.) And I know bits and pieces of a lot of others. And I've seen one really wonderful Italian opera in the 'performed in the town square in a hill town in Tuscany, with people sitting on the cathedral steps to listen' but can I remember what the opera was, no I cannot. (It was 20+ years ago.)
I'm actually tempted to start with Magic Flute as a proof of project, and then to go chronologically as much as I can find performances for, and see what I think of that.
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Date: 2019-08-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(I am now contemplating the idea of building a list of operas I would like to watch, at least in video form, and what that order might be, and what should be on it, given that these days, there's a fairly wide range of stuff handy.)
I've sung a (cut down, in English) Magic Flute, which I love because it hits my id for musical ridiculousness in about eight places, I've sung Dido and Aeneas, which I also rather like (but has a lousy alto line, and we were desperate for altos, so mezzo-me had to sing alto.) And I know bits and pieces of a lot of others. And I've seen one really wonderful Italian opera in the 'performed in the town square in a hill town in Tuscany, with people sitting on the cathedral steps to listen' but can I remember what the opera was, no I cannot. (It was 20+ years ago.)
I'm actually tempted to start with Magic Flute as a proof of project, and then to go chronologically as much as I can find performances for, and see what I think of that.