GMG's Greatest Opera Poll of 2017

[TheGSMoeller]

You know the drill, top ten operas. 10 points to 1 point.

GO!

[springrite]

10: Salome
9:  Marriage of Figaro
8:  Don Giovanni
7:  Wozzeck
6: The Ring Cycle Tristan und Isolde
5:  The Trojans
4:  Blue Beard's Castle
3:  La Traviata
2:  Turandot
1:  Elektra

(First time doing this, so I do NOT know the drill. The only thing to do is to post first!)

[Mirror Image]

Opera isn't my thing at all, but I like enough to make a list, so...

+10 Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
+9 Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges
+8 Berg: Wozzeck
+7 Janáček: Káťa Kabanová
+6 Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
+5 Szymanowski: King Roger
+4 Dvořák: Rusalka
+3 Wagner: Das Rheingold
+2 Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
+1 Strauss: Elektra

Edit: Man, I forgot Britten's Death in Venice! I really admire this opera a lot. (Hangs head in shame.)

[TheGSMoeller]

10: Salome
9:  Marriage of Figaro
8:  Don Giovanni
7:  Wozzeck
6:  The Ring Cycle
5:  The Trojans
4:  Blue Beard's Castle
3:  La Traviata
2:  Turandot
1:  Elektra

(First time doing this, so I do NOT know the drill. The only thing to do is to post first!)

You did GREAT for your first drill!   

Great list, but a question I should've asked before...The Ring Cycle as one? Or separate the four? I personally would say separate, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

[Mirror Image]

You did GREAT for your first drill!   

Great list, but a question I should've asked before...The Ring Cycle as one? Or separate the four? I personally would say separate, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

I don't consider The Ring one opera. It's a cycle of four very different operas.

[springrite]

You did GREAT for your first drill!   

Great list, but a question I should've asked before...The Ring Cycle as one? Or separate the four? I personally would say separate, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.

I was obviously being lazy (and a bit of cheating as well). If I had to separate them, I'd give the Wagnerian spot to Tristan und Isolde.

[Todd]

10. Wozzeck
9. Tristan und Isolde
8. Les Troyens
7. Boris Godunov
6. Le nozze di Figaro
5. Lulu
4. Parsifal
3. Falstaff
2. Kat'a Kabanova
1. La Boheme

[Ken B]

Like John not my main interest but with 10 points at the top and 1 at the bottom, with only the top spot being an easy pick:

Threepenny Opera

Cosi fan Tutte
Magic Flute
Sweeney Todd (SS)

Facing Goya (Nyman)
Four Saints in Three Acts (VT)

Giulio Cesare (GFH)
Ring
Orfeo Ed Eurydice (CWG)
Castor et Pollux (JPR)


Is voting the Ring allowed btw?

[TheGSMoeller]

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - 10
Berg: Wozzeck - 9
Wagner: Die Walkure - 8
Mozart: The Magic Flute - 7
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - 6
Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten - 5
Wagner: Parsifal - 4
Rameau: Castor et Pollux - 3
Britten: Death in Venice - 2
Orff: Der Mond - 1

[TheGSMoeller]

Like John not my main interest but with 10 points at the top and 1 at the bottom, with only the top spot being an easy pick:

Threepenny Opera

Cosi fan Tutte
Magic Flute
Sweeney Todd (SS)

Facing Goya (Nyman)
Four Saints in Three Acts (VT)

Giulio Cesare (GFH)
Ring
Orfeo Ed Eurydice (CWG)
Castor et Pollux (JPR)


Is voting the Ring allowed btw?

Great list, Ken. I almost had Threepenny in mine, but was beat out by a moon. And you can vote for the individual operas in the ring.

[Ken B]

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo - 10
Berg: Wozzeck - 9
Wagner: Die Walkure - 8
Mozart: The Magic Flute - 7
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - 6
Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten - 5
Wagner: Parsifal - 4
Rameau: Castor et Pollux - 3
Britten: Death in Venice - 2
Orff: Der Mond - 1

Ohh. I forgot Der Mond! I amend my list. Please drop the Rameau and the single point goes to Der Mond.

[TheGSMoeller]

Ohh. I forgot Der Mond! I amend my list. Please drop the Rameau and the single point goes to Der Mond.

I commented on Threepenny without even noticing we chose the same Rameau opera. 

What about the Ring opera? Ken, there can only be one ring to rule them all.

[GioCar]

One per composer, otherwise my list would have been made by Wagner's & Mozart's operas only - almost

10 Der Ring (or Die Walküre)
9 Le nozze di Figaro
8 Falstaff
7 Wozzeck
6 L'Orfeo
5 Turandot
4 Boris Godunov
3 Pelléas et Mélisande
2 Salome
1 Carmen

Do I really have to split the Ring 

[Trout]

Also not the biggest opera buff, but I'll give it a go:

10 - Glass: Einstein on the Beach
9 - Saariaho: L'amour de loin
8 - Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
7 - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
6 - Verdi: Otello
5 - Wagner: Der Ring/Götterdämmerung
4 - Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
3 - Adams: Nixon in China
2 - Romitelli: An Index of Metals
1 - Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise

[Florestan]

10 Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
09 Bizet - Carmen
08 Weber - Freischutz
07 Rossini - Il viaggio a Reims
06 Bellini - La sonnambula
05 Donizetti - Don Pasquale
04 Handel - Rinaldo
03 Haydn - La fedelta premiata
02 Rameau - Les Indes galantes
01 Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier

[Wanderer]

10 Schreker: Die Gezeichneten
09 Zemlinsky: Eine florentinische Tragödie
08 Janáček: Jenůfa
07 Beethoven: Fidelio
06 Britten: Peter Grimes
05 Puccini: Turandot
04 Szymanowski: Król Roger
03 Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (or Die Walküre)
02 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
01 Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

[Spineur]

1 opera per composer

10 Donizetti Lucia di Lamermoor
9 Wagner Die Meistersingers
8 Debussy, Pelleas et Melisande
7 Mozart Don Giovanni
6 Puccini, Turandot
5 Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov
4 Bellini, I Puritani
3 Bizet, Carmen
2 Gounod, Faust
1 Verdi, Rigoletto

[Ken B]

What about the Ring opera? Ken, there can only be one ring to rule them all.

So on the symphony thread we have to pick a movement?

[Mahlerian]

10 - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
9 - Berg: Wozzeck
8 - Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
7 - Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
6 - Mozart: Cosi fan tutte
5 - Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
4 - Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
3 - Janacek: From the House of the Dead
2 - Wagner: Die Walkure
1 - Mozart: Idomeneo

[TheGSMoeller]

So on the symphony thread we have to pick a movement?

I said earlier in the thread I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, and Wagner did intend them to be performed together.
Anyone else here want to offer their opinion? It's up for discussion and I don't plan on tallying votes for a while.