The Most Delicate Opera ?

[Operahaven]

Which is the most musically delicate opera in your opinion ?

[DavidW]

Delicate as in what?  As in a delicate or fragile beauty kind of thing?  A porcelain doll opera?  I've got to understand the concept since the two words "delicate" and "opera" don't really go together.

[Mozart]

Didn't even know you liked opera. I think he means in terms of performance. Some operas need the perfect singers and conducting. I just can't think of any.

[Operahaven]

Delicate as in what?  As in a delicate or fragile beauty kind of thing?  A porcelain doll opera?  I've got to understand the concept since the two words "delicate" and "opera" don't really go together.

David,

Yes, delicate as in 'fragile beauty' and with the richest variety of delicate sounds.

[(poco) Sforzando]

I can't imagine what opera you might have in mind . . . . 

[knight66]

No....nothing coming to mind I am afraid.

Mike

[marvinbrown]

David,

Yes, delicate as in 'fragile beauty' and with the richest variety of delicate sounds.

  Well the only opera that I can think of that meets that criteria is R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, how many would agree with me on this one?


  marvin
 

[knight66]

Rosenkavalier delicate and fragile....you have been listening to too much Wagner.

Mike

[marvinbrown]

Rosenkavalier delicate and fragile....you have been listening to too much Wagner.

Mike

  Oh Mike how could you be so cruel to me  .

  marvin

[sTisTi]

How about Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande?

[DavidW]

Didn't even know you liked opera.

I like opera, but I hate the blathering that I usually find about opera on this board.  I'm talking about the Wagnerites.  I don't across the board love opera, but these composers write stuff that I enjoy and listen to-- Bartok, Berlioz, Mozart.  I also like Wagner, but listening to dz and his like blathering on about his greatness is about as fun as having a railroad spike hammered through your eye into your brain.

[knight66]

How about Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande?

No, I have listened to that one, it cannot possibly be it. Try again. How about Falstaff, well bits of it.

Mike

[Tsaraslondon]

Try again. How about Falstaff, well bits of it.

Mike

And surely that's the point. Many operas might have delicate bits, Falstaff being a case in point,  but no opera, or symphony for that matter,  is going to be delicate throughout. Wouldn't that just be monotonous?

[(poco) Sforzando]

No, I have listened to that one, it cannot possibly be it. Try again. How about Falstaff, well bits of it.

Mike

Even Siegfried has delicate bits.

[BachQ]

Which is the most musically delicate opera in your opinion ?

Wozzeck ......... without a glimmer of doubt ..........

[greg]

Wozzeck ......... without a glimmer of doubt ..........

I'm sure Penderecki's The Devils of London kicks Wozzeck's butt in terms of delicacy...... (though i've never heard it)

[max]

How about CHINESE opera??

[The new erato]

Even Siegfried has delicate bits.

If his bits were delicate, perhaps we never would have gotten around to Gøtterdammerung.

[BachQ]

I'm sure Penderecki's The Devils of London kicks Wozzeck's butt in terms of delicacy...... (though i've never heard it)

It's "The Devils of Loudun" (Loudon being a city in France) ......... but, yeah, we need to hear that delicate filigree of an opera soon ..........

[(poco) Sforzando]

If his bits were delicate, perhaps we never would have gotten around to Gøtterdammerung.

Horse and all, Brünnhilde has bits enough for both of them.