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Poll Question: which is the best opera?
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Points: 3089 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2006 at 10:21
i'm zero at knowledge on opera, so my vote goes for any opera that gets shown on Mezzo. damn, those french TV guys can make a full and brilliant experience out of anything they want. they're the ones that got me into opera.
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I voted for The Wall (but Tommy's #2).
 
However, my true favorite is Genesis's Rock Opera, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
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Points: 65271 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2006 at 17:53
I usually prefer requiem masses to operas, so I would pick Faure and Verdi.
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I only like the overtures.

 

Rossini is my favourite,

Semiramide (haven't heard it in prog yet)
William tell (Yes I like Arena)
La Gazza Ladra (yes I'm a Marillion fanboy)

 
Tsjaikofski (or however you write his name is good also), though that's more ballet than opera i guess (don't know, never studied music).
 
The magic flute from Mozart is sweet, canadians will love it.
 
 
 
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Honestly I don't believe The Wall is a Rock Opera, it's a concepttual album (Of course Rock Operas are also conceptual but another specie)

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is by no mean a Rock Opera, this is the quintuaessential Conceptual album, the interaction between the characters (Contrary to Tommy and Quadrophenia where the conversations between Tommy and his mother, Frank or Cousin Kevin and Uncle Earnie are the main part of the plot as in any Opera) is almost non existing, IMO The Lamb is more based in The Trial by Kafka than in any form of Opera.
 
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Honestly I don't believe The Wall is a Rock Opera, it's a concepttual album (Of course Rock Operas are also conceptual but another specie)

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is by no mean a Rock Opera, this is the quintuaessential Conceptual album, the interaction between the characters (Contrary to Tommy and Quadrophenia where the conversations between Tommy and his mother, Frank or Cousin Kevin and Uncle Earnie are the main part of the plot as in any Opera) is almost non existing, IMO The Lamb is more based in The Trial by Kafka than in any form of Opera.
 
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I see no relation between The Lamb and The Trial, but I'm not a big fan of the lamb, so maybe I haven't paid enough attention.
 
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Originally posted by tuxon tuxon wrote:

 
I see no relation between The Lamb and The Trial, but I'm not a big fan of the lamb, so maybe I haven't paid enough attention.
 
 
Both Mr. K and Rael are sucked into a parallel reality (Mr K to a triakl with no sense and Rael to a sub-world) both don't know how they reached there or hopw to live and both are ready to surrender.
 
Rael apparently is saved when troies to help his brother but Mr. K surrenders and allows the guys to kill him.
 
Peter once wrote something about it if I can remember well.
 
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Did I mention, by the way, my youngest cat is named Tosca?

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Where's Trapped in the Closet?  That'd be my vote.

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