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    Posted: February 13 2022 at 13:04
Knowing that many prog fans like classical music too, I guess some of you guys might be into opera.

For my own part, I was very much raised with classical music, so I've often attended opera performances as a kid, or I've watched them on television. Since my aunt is a retired alto singer, we often attended operas in which she performed, and this includes Wagner's Ring which, undoubtedly, has had a big impact on me. Other favourites include most of Mozart's operas, Verdi's Falstaff, Richard Strauss' Salome and Britten's Peter Grimes.


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The usual for me...

Puccini: Tosca, La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, ll Trittico
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Verdi: La Traviata, Rigoletto
Bellini: Norma
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, Pique Dame
Bizet: Carmen
Donizetti: Elisir d'amore, La Fille de Regiment
Dvorak: Rusalka
Beethoven: Fidelio
Mozart: The Da Ponte operas... 

sorry to be so orthodox, but will that do for starters??
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All seen in the magnificent Budapest Opera house: 

Porgy & Bess
Carmen
Barber of Seville
Othello
Aida 
Rigoletto 

Big fan of operetta as well : Csardas Queen and Hary Janos in particular
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Tales of Hoffmann
Turandot
Don Giovanni
Lucia di Lammermoor
Aida
Tosca
Manon (Massanet)
Iolanta
Sadko
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Not really my thing generally speaking, but two that stand out to me are Schoenberg's Moses & Aron and Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, although it's been a while since I've heard the latter.


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Wagner's Tannhauser is my favorite, and also Richard Strauss's Arabella, especially the wartime recording conducted by Clemens Krauss.
      Oh, and Berlioz's La Damnation De Faust.
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Not my cup of tea
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