Wagner Opera Blowout! Choose Your Favorites!

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Not sure if this poll has been done before, but I don't care, it's staying up! Choose your three favorite Wagner operas.

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By the way, for those interested in learning a bit more about each of Wagner's operas, this is a great site:

http://www.wagneroperas.com/

[springrite]

Tristan, Lohengrin and GodDamnRing.

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I chose Gotterdammerung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. For me, these are the pinnacle of Wagner's compositional style. All of them, for me, are also incredible from a harmonic standpoint.

[Sergeant Rock]

Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Parsifal.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Hm, I don't think I've yet heard Lohengrin in its entirety, Sarge.  And, lo! I have the fulsome Cube to hand . . . .

[DavidW]

Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, and Gotterdammerung.

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Lohengrin, Die Walküre, Parsifal.

Sarge

Good to see another Parsifal fan. One of the most beautiful operas I've heard from Wagner.

[Sergeant Rock]

Hm, I don't think I've yet heard Lohengrin in its entirety, Sarge.  And, lo! I have the fulsome Cube to hand . . . .

Lohengrin was the first Wagner I heard live (a 1967 Met performance in Cleveland). Made a lasting impression on me. A year later I head Szell at Blossom conduct the Act I Prelude. That sealed the deal.

Sarge

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Lohengrin was the first Wagner I heard live (a 1967 Met performance in Cleveland). Made a lasting impression on me. A year later I head Szell at Blossom conduct the Act I Prelude. That sealed the deal.

Sarge

Come to think of it, I have yet to hear Lohengrin in it's entirety as well. I only have one recording of it and it's with Solti. Don't know if it's a good one or not, but I got it really cheap.

[Lisztianwagner]

I had already created a similar poll about Wagner's opera, anyway........

I usually consider Der Ring des Nibelungen as an unique, beautiful, absolutely thrilling work, I would have really liked to vote for the whole Ring Cycle; though I chose Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.

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Tristan und Isolde and Götterdämmerung.

Two of my favorites. By the way, I purposely picked the number three so people couldn't pick the entire Ring cycle.

[Karl Henning]

Although I can choose up to three, I'm casting a sole vote for Parsifal.

[Todd]

I wonder if anyone will vote for the pre-Dutchman operas.  I've never heard them. 

This would have been much easier if The Ring was one choice . . .

[Lisztianwagner]

I've just noticed it.....Tanhäusser.....is it a new Wagner's opera?

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I've just noticed it.....Tanhäusser.....is it a new Wagner's opera?

Error corrected.

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This would have been much easier if The Ring was one choice . . .

Precisely, why I only allowed there to be three choices. It forces people to really think about their choices instead of just choosing the whole Ring.

[mc ukrneal]

Die Walkure, Meistersinger, Flying guy.

[Lethevich]

Tannhäuser, Siegfried, Tristan

Hollander may have replaced Siegfried if I was in a different mood, but the other two remain favourites.

[Lisztianwagner]

Die Feen sounds rather enjoyable; although it is a German Romantic opera, showing the influences of Weber and Marschner, and it doesn't have complex counterpoint texture and strong chromatism, it already contains some features of Wagner's mature style, like simple leitmotives to introduce characters, the tendency to move away from closed forms pieces and the theme of Redemption.