Opera since World War II

[James]

From the following list select the works that you have listened to.

[springrite]

OK, I have listened to 25 of them.

What is the purpose of this thread? Too show off or to show up? I don't get the point here...

[The new erato]

Since you don't have to tell what you've heard, you don't have to show off.

Perhaps to get an idea about what folks listen to, and the relative popularity of the various works.

I miss Harmonie der Welt and The Last Christmas Dinner by Hindemith, both of which I've listened to (and the first one surely belongs on this list!).

[Tsaraslondon]

It's a puzzling list. Here are a few post World War II operas that I would have expected to be on there, many of which I have either seen or heard:
Strauss Capriccio
Prokoviev War and Peace
Prokoviev Betrothal in a Monastery
Prokoviev The Fiery Angel
Menotti The Telephone
Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors
Henze Elegy for Young Lovers
Henze Boulevard Solitude
Britten Rape of Lucretia
Britten Albert Herring
Britten Gloriana
Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream
Britten Death in Venice
Tippett The Knot Garden
Walton Troilus and Cressida
Poulenc Les Mamelles de Tiresias
Poulenc Les Dialogues des Carmelites
Poulenc La Voix Humaine
Barber Antony and Cleopatra
Copeland The Tender Land
Ades The Tempest

I may not have seen or heard all the operas on this list, but I have at least heard of them, whereas there are many on the original list I've never come across. Maybe this is a nationality thing. I'm British, which probably accounts for the high proportion of Britten works. I'd say A Midsummer Night's Dream was staged over here quite as regularly as the Turn of the Screw, for instance.

[San Antone]

Carlisle Floyd has written several really good operas, Susannah is just one, also left out.

[The new erato]

Carlisle Floyd has written several really good operas, Susannah is just one, also left out.

I've heard that (and seen it staged) .Overall, I've seen far more of the operas on Tasaraslondon's list of omissions, than on the voting list.

[Tsaraslondon]

Carlisle Floyd has written several really good operas, Susannah is just one, also left out.

Forgot that one. I saw it at the Met with Renee Fleming, quite a few years ago now.

[71 dB]

None!

The only opera written after Wold War II I have heard is Carly Simon's family opera Romulus Hunt.