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My favourite operas (from someone with no music background)
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items I love opera. I have no music background or training and for years I felt like opera was too inaccessible or just something that I needed some special knowledge to enjoy. I was totally wrong.
If you are in London, UK please know the Royal Opera Ho...
In my opinion probably the most accessible as its been retold and repurposed loads (think Rent the musical for example). It's a romance and a tragedy among young artists in Paris. The music is warm and beautiful and it leans in to the drama! Every pr...
La Bohème (Puccini)
It's Mozart, it's an opera. Its a fairy tale with talking animals, evil queens, and magic but for adults and with with amazing music and costumes. I didn't see this for ages at first because the name made me think it would be bad but it's actually am...
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Carmen is truly a classic and there is also a ballet version. Both are magic. The story is easy to follow and the music is unmatched. It explores gender, sexualising freedom and jealousy. It's a hard one to describe in a succinct fashion so you might...
Carmen (Bizet)
This was the first opera I saw. It was like 3 hours and I had a standing ticket and I was transformed. I will always love Tosca it is so dramatic and outrageous.
Tosca (Puccini)
I mean, he had it coming...
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
The opera traces rival families, thwarted love and unhealthy obsessions in a powerful tale of an innocent woman manipulated by the men in her life. It's very Gothic. I feel like if the Brontes had written an opera, it would be this.
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor - Gramophone
Very dreamy and all about the mood. If it could be a poem, it would. It starts with a woman lost in a forest being found by a Pronce and quickly married. It ends with some death.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)
Alcina, a sorceress, uses magic to transform people into animals and other inanimate objects. Truly it is was an enjoyable time!
Alcina (Handel)