I wish I could get my family into opera... grandma gladly listens to my rants about it and she appreciates Pretty Singers (she knows who Jonas is ;)) and mom occasionally can be persuaded to come to the opera with me but isn't much into it, although she enjoyed Rigoletto, Zauberflöte, and Die Räuber (we saw that in the Wien Volksoper in German). On the other hand she didn't like Billy Budd because the subtext flew over her head and I didn't want to explain "mom this is a gay opera". Plus the music is not exactly something you can whistle XD

I wish I could go to the Munich Don Carlo next year but it's a bit far away... but Tézier. And Harteros. And Elina.