GMG's Greatest Opera Poll of 2017

[mc ukrneal]

I'll just stick with individual operas since most have either only listed one, or (have once in parenthesis next to Ring Cycle). For those that are against this, I apologize, this will all be over soon and we will move to our next controversial "Greatest" list shortly. 

There wouldn't be any controversy at all if you simply exchanged "GMG Greatest" from the title with something else. As is, it implies some sort of consensus GMG list (or one that represents everyone at GMG) of 'greatest' works.

[Ken B]

I'll just stick with individual operas since most have either only listed one, or (have once in parenthesis next to Ring Cycle). For those that are against this, I apologize, this will all be over soon and we will move to our next controversial "Greatest" list shortly. 

Well I need to reorder , the bottom few changing.

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)
Walkure(RW)

Are we gonna produce a list with no Carmen, no Barber of Seville, no Turandot?

[kishnevi]

1. Otello
2. Falstaff
3-6 Ring des Nibelungen
7.Tosca
8.Nozze di Figaro
9. Rosenkavalier
10. Albert Herring

[North Star]

1. Otello
2. Falstaff
3-6 Ring des Nibelungen
7.Tosca
8.Nozze di Figaro
9. Rosenkavalier
10. Albert Herring

Numbers are points or places? And Rheingold gets the highest placing/lowest points?

[Sergeant Rock]

Are we gonna produce a list with no Carmen, no Barber of Seville, no Turandot?

Choosing a Puccini opera is tough. I love them all and I hated leaving out Turandot (the one I probably listen to most often). A top 20 greatest would have been easier.

Sarge

[Ken B]

Choosing a Puccini opera is tough. I love them all and I hated leaving out Turandot (the one I probably listen to most often). A top 20 greatest would have been easier.

Sarge

20 in a top 10?
I thought only John counts that badly. 

[kishnevi]

Numbers are points or places? And Rheingold gets the highest placing/lowest points?

Numbers are to ensure I didn't go over 10.
Ranking them, Otello and Falstaff would be tied for 1st,  Albert Herring for 10th, and the rest tied for 3rd.

[Sergeant Rock]

20 in a top 10?
I thought only John counts that badly. 

   I can count up to 20 pretty easily (fingers and toes). Beyond that it becomes problematic.

Sarge

[kishnevi]

Choosing a Puccini opera is tough. I love them all and I hated leaving out Turandot (the one I probably listen to most often). A top 20 greatest would have been easier.

Sarge

I can't say my Puccini love equals yours, but my feelings about Turandot are the same. It's just that I think Tosca (and Boheme, too) are more dramatically coherent and more musically enriched.

[Ken B]

Numbers are to ensure I didn't go over 10.
Ranking them, Otello and Falstaff would be tied for 1st,  Albert Herring for 10th, and the rest tied for 3rd.

Poor Greg! That combinatorics course finally comes in useful!

[Florestan]

I can count up to 20 pretty easily (fingers and toes). Beyond that it becomes problematic.

21 should be piece of cake, though, even as a mournful remembrance. 

[Ken B]

21 should be piece of cake, though, even as a mournful remembrance. 

Your knowledge of Clevelanders is sorely deficient.

[Florestan]

Your knowledge of Clevelanders is sorely deficient.

Enlighten me, mighty Zeus!

[Ken B]

Enlighten me, mighty Zeus!

Let's just say, speaking as a former Cincinnatian, that Clevelanders suffer a well-known deficiency. And that the population of Cleveland has long been declining, and leave it at that. 

[Florestan]

Let's just say, speaking as a former Cincinnatian, that Clevelanders suffer a well-known deficiency. And that the population of Cleveland has long been declining, and leave it at that. 

But they still have tongues, I assume, so 21 it is. 

[Sergeant Rock]

21 should be piece of cake, though, even as a mournful remembrance. 

Those were the days, my friend 

Sarge

[Mr Bloom]

Points, not rank.

10. Brett Dean : Bliss
9. Debussy : Pelleas und Mélisande
8. Maxwell Davies : Ressurection
7. Wagner : Tristan und Isolde
6. Britten : Death in Venice
5. Szymanowski: Król Roger
4. Shostakovich : Der Nose
3. Erwin Schulhoff : Flammen
2. Nikolai Karetnikov : Till eulenspiegel
1. Berg : Wozzeck

[Jo498]

   I can count up to 20 pretty easily (fingers and toes). Beyond that it becomes problematic.

Sarge

you can count up to 1023 with your 10 fingers, it needs only some digital and mental flexibility

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

10 Bliss (Dean)
9 Tristan und Isolde
8 Luci Mie Traditrici
7 Shadowtime
6 Punch and Judy
5 Lear
4 Hamlet (Dean)
3 Götterdämmerung
2 Le Grand Macabre
1 Die Walküre

[TheGSMoeller]

I should have scores tallied by later today. hopefully. There are a few operas listed that don't have composer's attached so I'm having to look them up.

Also, there are a few .5 scores because Jeffrey had a few ties, and every list should total 55 points. If you have any questions about it let me know.