GMG's Greatest Opera Poll of 2017

[GioCar]

Thanks, I can't spell lol

Don't worry, I'have just pointed this out not to be picky but because it's a very common mistake on that title...

[Mahlerian]

If Janáček wasn't on your list, I think I'd seriously start to question even my own choices. A wonderful thing that good taste has prevailed!

Oops, I forgot Janacek too...I'm going back to add it.  Points haven't been tallied yet anyway, right?

[North Star]

Oops, I forgot Janacek too...I'm going back to add it.  Points haven't been tallied yet anyway, right?

I recall Greg preferring you to inform of changes but keeping the original list intact.

[Mahlerian]

I recall Greg preferring you to inform of changes but keeping the original list intact.

Okay, I'll detail the change:

3 - Britten: Turn of the Screw -> 3 - Janacek: From the House of the Dead

[Ken B]

Okay, I'll detail the change:

3 - Britten: Turn of the Screw -> 3 - Janacek: From the House of the Dead

Thus exploding decades of economic theory!

[North Star]

Thus exploding decades of economic theory!

* chortle *

[TheGSMoeller]

Thus exploding decades of economic theory!

It's my head that explodes.


And I haven't started tallying up points yet so we are all good. But I'm still stressing out over the Ring Cycle decision, going to need some beer to help me through this dark time.

[North Star]

It's my head that explodes.


And I haven't started tallying up points yet so we are all good. But I'm still stressing out over the Ring Cycle decision, going to need some beer to help me through this dark time.

Ah yes, nothing like a case of beer to help with counting things.  0:)

[kyjo]

Opera is a serious blind spot for me, and this thread reminds me that I need to remedy that ASAP! I recently started listening to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and have enjoyed it so far.

[Ken B]

Opera is a serious blind spot for me, and this thread reminds me that I need to remedy that ASAP! I recently started listening to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and have enjoyed it so far.

Well the place to start is with my list! I'm not a big opera person either, and most of my choices are non-opera operas. And none are by Delius 

[André]

Opera is a serious blind spot for me, and this thread reminds me that I need to remedy that ASAP! I recently started listening to Wagner's Die Meistersinger and have enjoyed it so far.

Hmmm.. You like challenges, don't you?

[TheGSMoeller]

Any more participants? I will probably tally on Friday.

[Sergeant Rock]

Any more participants? I will probably tally on Friday.

Have you made a decision on the Ring vs its separate parts?

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Numbers refer to points given:

10 Der Ring des Nibelungen (or Die Walküre)
9 Tristan und Isolde
8 Parsifal
7 Don Giovanni
6 Die Zauberflöte
5 Otello
4 Madama Butterfly
3 L'Orfeo
2 Orfeo ed Euridice
1 Pelléas et Mélisande

[Ken B]

These are my favorite operas - not the "greatest".  So sue me.

+10 Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande

That is one I have never heard, except brief bits. I have it, it just sits unheard, as it has for decades. Together with almost all of Verdi ...

[Parsifal]

10 - Das Rhinegold
9 - Salome
8 - Zauberflote
7 - Cunning Little Vixen
6 - Peter Grimes
5 - Tannhauser
4 - Otello
3 - Tosca
2 - Giulio Cesare (Handel)
1 - Wozzeck

(points indicated)

[TheGSMoeller]

Have you made a decision on the Ring vs its separate parts?

Sarge

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. 

[Florestan]

Any more participants? I will probably tally on Friday.

I'd like to modify my list thus:

03 Verdi - La traviata
02 Puccini - Tosca

Because it has just crossed my mind that any "Greatest Operas" list which doesn't feature Verdi and Puccini is insane. 

[Spineur]

Because it has just crossed my mind that any "Greatest Operas" list which doesn't feature Verdi and Puccini is insane. 

Absolutely !  But, both of them composed so many good operas that our votes are necessarily spread and get a big dilution.  From that standpoint, Debussy has an unfair advantage !

[TheGSMoeller]

One of the most enjoyable, for me, productions is the Robert Wilson "blue" video.

I would be interested in seeing Wilson's production, I really enjoyed his take on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.