Question:
From the following list select the works that you have listened to.
Option 1: Il prigioniero (Luigi Dallapiccola)
votes: 2
Option 2: Dantons Tod (Gottfried von Einem)
votes: 1
Option 3: Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
votes: 13
Option 4: Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
votes: 10
Option 5: The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
votes: 11
Option 6: The Midsummer Marriage (Michael Tippett)
votes: 3
Option 7: King Priam (Michael Tippett)
votes: 5
Option 8: Intolleranza (Luigi Nono)
votes: 4
Option 9: Die Soldaten (Bernd Alois Zimmermann)
votes: 3
Option 10: Un re in ascolto (Luciano Berio)
votes: 1
Option 11: Licht cycle (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
votes: 5
Option 12: Eroberung von Mexico (Wolfgang Rihm)
votes: 1
Option 13: Luci mie traditrici (Salvatore Sciarrino)
votes: 1
Option 14: Die Teufel von Loudun (Kryszstof Penderecki)
votes: 4
Option 15: Le grand macabre (Gyorgy Ligeti)
votes: 6
Option 16: Life with an idiot (Alfred Schnittke)
votes: 2
Option 17: The Handmaid's Tale (Poul Ruders)
votes: 1
Option 18: The Bassarids (Hans Werner Henze)
votes: 2
Option 19: Punch & Judy (Harrison Birtwistle)
votes: 3
Option 20: The Mask of Orpheus (Harrison Birtwistle)
votes: 4
Option 21: Gawain (Harrison Birtwistle)
votes: 3
Option 22: Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass)
votes: 6
Option 23: Nixon in China (John Adams)
votes: 5
Option 24: The Death of Klinghoffer (John Adams)
votes: 4
Option 25: De Materie (Louis Andriessen)
votes: 0
Option 26: La Commedia (Louis Andriessen)
votes: 0
Option 27: Saint Francis of Assisi (Olivier Messiaen)
votes: 8
Option 28: A Night at the Chinese Opera (Judith Weir)
votes: 0
Option 29: Blond Eckbert (Judith Weir)
votes: 0
Option 30: Greek (Mark-Anthony Turnage)
votes: 0
Option 31: Powder her Face (Thomas Ades)
votes: 1
Option 32: Higglety Pigglety Pop! (Oliver Knussen)
votes: 1
Option 33: Where the Wild Things Are (Oliver Knussen)
votes: 4
Option 34: The Rake's Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
votes: 14
Option 35: L'amour de loin (Kaija Saariaho)
votes: 7
Option 36: What Next? (Elliott Carter)
votes: 3
Option 37: Mary of Egypt (John Tavener)
votes: 0
Option 38: The Medium (Gian Carlo Menotti)
votes: 4
Option 39: Vanessa (Samuel Barber)
votes: 7
Option 40: Lear (Aribert Reimann)
votes: 1
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...
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!).
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.
Quote from: sanantonio on November 11, 2012, 04:06:28 AM
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.
Quote from: sanantonio on November 11, 2012, 04:06:28 AM
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.