{"id":72392,"date":"2023-07-09T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=72392"},"modified":"2023-07-09T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T14:24:44","slug":"199-operas-you-need-to-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=72392","title":{"rendered":"199 Operas You Need to Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French website Forum Opera has just given us a list of 199 operas that you should experience before you die. There are a &#8220;few&#8221; on the list that I have not yet experienced and there is not an extraordinary length of time left for me to finish this task. \u00a0Did they miss anything? Has anyone experienced them all?<\/p>\n<p>Monteverdi : L\u2019Orfeo (1607)<br \/>\nMonteverdi : L\u2019Incoronazione di Poppea (1642)<br \/>\nCavalli : La Calisto (1651)<br \/>\nCavalli : Eliogabalo (1667)<br \/>\nLully : Atys (1676)<br \/>\nLully : Armide (1686)<br \/>\nPurcell : Dido and Aeneas (1689)<br \/>\nPurcell : The fairy Queen (1691)<br \/>\nCharpentier : M\u00e9d\u00e9e (1693)<br \/>\nMarais : Alcyone (1706)<br \/>\nH\u00e4ndel : Agrippina (1709)<br \/>\nMarais : S\u00e9m\u00e9l\u00e9 (1709)<br \/>\nMouret : Les amours de Ragonde (1714)<br \/>\nScarlatti : Griselda (1721)<br \/>\nH\u00e4ndel : Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1723)<br \/>\nVivaldi : Farnace (1727)<br \/>\nVivaldi : Orlando Furioso (1727)<br \/>\nRameau : Hippolyte et Aricie (1733)<br \/>\nPorpora : Polifemo (1734)<br \/>\nH\u00e4ndel : Alcina (1735)<br \/>\nVivaldi : Griselda (1735)<br \/>\nH\u00e4ndel : Ariodante (1735)<br \/>\nRameau : Dardanus (1739)<br \/>\nH\u00e4ndel : Semele (1743)<br \/>\nRameau : Plat\u00e9e (1745)<br \/>\nGluck : Orph\u00e9e et Eurydice (1762)<br \/>\nRameau : Les Bor\u00e9ades (1763)<br \/>\nTraetta : Antigona (1772)<br \/>\nGluck : Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride (1879)<br \/>\nMozart : Idomeneo (1781)<br \/>\nSalieri : Les Dana\u00efdes (1784)<br \/>\nMozart : Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)<br \/>\nMozart : Don Giovanni (1787)<br \/>\nMozart : Cos\u00ec fan tutte (1790)<br \/>\nMozart : La Clemenza di Tito (1791)<br \/>\nMozart : Die Zauberf\u00f6te (1791)<br \/>\nCherubini : Medea (1797)<br \/>\nBeethoven : Fidelio (1805)<br \/>\nSpontini : Julie, ou le pot de fleurs (1805)<br \/>\nSpontini : La Vestale (1807)<br \/>\nRossini : Otello (1816)<br \/>\nRossini : Le Barbier de S\u00e9ville (1816)<br \/>\nRossini : Armida (1817)<br \/>\nWeber : Der Freisch\u00fctz (1821)<br \/>\nRossini : Semiramide (1823)<br \/>\nMarschner : Der Vampyr (1828)<br \/>\nRossini : Le Comte Ory (1828)<br \/>\nAuber : La Muette de Portici (1828)<br \/>\nRossini : Guillaume Tell (1829)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Anna Bolena (1830)<br \/>\nBellini : I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830)<br \/>\nBellini : Norma (1831)<br \/>\nMeyerbeer : Robert Le Diable (1831)<br \/>\nDonizetti : L\u2019Elisir d\u2019amore (1832)<br \/>\nAuber : Gustave III ou Le bal masqu\u00e9 (1833)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Lucrezia Borgia (1833)<br \/>\nBellini : Beatrice di Tenda (1833)<br \/>\nBellini : I Puritani (1834)<br \/>\nWagner : Die Feen (1834)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)<br \/>\nHal\u00e9vy : La Juive (1835)<br \/>\nMeyerbeer : Les Huguenots (1836)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Roberto Devereux (1837)<br \/>\nMercadante : Il Bravo (1839)<br \/>\nDonizetti : La Favorite (1840)<br \/>\nLortzing : Die Wildsch\u00fctz (1842)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Don Pasquale (1843)<br \/>\nVerdi : Ernani (1844)<br \/>\nVerdi : I due Foscari (1844)<br \/>\nWagner : Tannh\u00e4user (1845)<br \/>\nVerdi : Macbeth (1847)<br \/>\nDonizetti : Poliuto (1848)<br \/>\nVerdi : Luisa Miller (1849)<br \/>\nMeyerbeer : Le Proph\u00e8te (1849)<br \/>\nWagner : Lohengrin (1850)<br \/>\nVerdi : Rigoletto (1851)<br \/>\nVerdi : Il Trovatore (1853)<br \/>\nVerdi : La Traviata (1853)<br \/>\nVerdi : Simon Boccanegra (1857)<br \/>\nOffenbach : Orph\u00e9e aux enfers (1858)<br \/>\nGounod : Faust (1859)<br \/>\nVerdi : Un ballo in maschera (1859)<br \/>\nBerlioz : Les Troyens (1863)<br \/>\nOffenbach : La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne (1864)<br \/>\nWagner : Tristan und Isolde (1865)<br \/>\nSmetana : La fianc\u00e9e vendue (1866)<br \/>\nVerdi : Don Carlos (1867)<br \/>\nGounod : Rom\u00e9o et Juliette (1867)<br \/>\nMassenet : La Grand\u2019Tante (1867)<br \/>\nBoito : Mefistofele (1868)<br \/>\nThomas : Hamlet (1868)<br \/>\nWagner : Rheingold (1869)<br \/>\nOffenbach : Vert-Vert (1869)<br \/>\nLecocq : La Fille de madame Angot (1872)<br \/>\nStrauss : Die Fledermaus (1874)<br \/>\nMoussorgski : Boris Godounov (1874)<br \/>\nPonchielli : La Gioconda (1875)<br \/>\nBizet : Carmen (1875)<br \/>\nWagner : Siegfried (1876)<br \/>\nWagner : G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung (1876)<br \/>\nSaint-Sa\u00ebns : Samson et Dalila (1877)<br \/>\nChabrier : L\u2019\u00c9toile (1877)<br \/>\nTcha\u00efkovski : Eugene Oneguine (1879)<br \/>\nTcha\u00efkovski : La Pucelle d\u2019Orl\u00e9ans (1879)<br \/>\nOffenbach : La fille du Tambour-major (1879)<br \/>\nMassenet : H\u00e9rodiade (1881)<br \/>\nOffenbach : Les contes d\u2019Hoffmann (1881)<br \/>\nWagner : Parsifal (1882)<br \/>\nReyer : Sigurd (1883)<br \/>\nDelibes : Lakm\u00e9 (1883)<br \/>\nMassenet : Manon (1884)<br \/>\nHolmes : La Montagne noire (1884)<br \/>\nSullivan : The Mikado (1885)<br \/>\nVerdi : Otello (1887)<br \/>\nMascagni : Cavalleria Rusticana (1890)<br \/>\nTcha\u00efkovski : La dame de Pique (1890)<br \/>\nMassenet : Werther (1892)<br \/>\nLeoncavallo : Pagliacci (1892)<br \/>\nVerdi : Falstaff (1893)<br \/>\nHumperdinck : H\u00e4nsel und Gretel (1893)<br \/>\nPuccini : La Boh\u00e8me (1895)<br \/>\nGiordano : Andrea Ch\u00e9nier (1896)<br \/>\nPuccini : Tosca (1900)<br \/>\nCharpentier : Louise (1900)<br \/>\nDvo\u0159\u00e1k : Rusalka (1901)<br \/>\nDebussy : Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande (1902)<br \/>\nCilea : Adriana Lecouvreur (1902)<br \/>\nChausson : Le Roi Arthus (1903)<br \/>\nPuccini : Madama Butterfly (1904)<br \/>\nJan\u00e1\u010dek : Jenufa (1904)<br \/>\nStrauss : Salome (1905)<br \/>\nLeh\u00e1r : Die lustige Witwe (1905)<br \/>\nBloch : Macbeth (1906)<br \/>\nSmith : The Wreckers (1906)<br \/>\nZemlinsky : Une trag\u00e9die florentine (1906)<br \/>\nRavel : L\u2019Heure Espagnole (1907)<br \/>\nDelius : A village Romeo and Juliet (1907)<br \/>\nMessager : Fortunio (1907)<br \/>\nMassenet : Th\u00e9r\u00e8se (1907)<br \/>\nStrauss : Elektra (1903)<br \/>\nStrauss : Der Rosenkavalier (1911)<br \/>\nStrauss : Ariadne auf Naxos (1912)<br \/>\nFaur\u00e9 : P\u00e9n\u00e9lope (1912)<br \/>\nK\u00e1lm\u00e1n : La Princesse Czardas (1915)<br \/>\nPfitzner : Palestrina (1917)<br \/>\nPuccini : Gianni Schicchi (1918)<br \/>\nSchreker : Die Gezeichneten (1918)<br \/>\nBartok : Le ch\u00e2teau de Barbe-Bleue (1918)<br \/>\nStrauss : La femme sans ombre (1919)<br \/>\nBraunfels : Die V\u00f6gel (1920)<br \/>\nKorngold : La ville morte (1920)<br \/>\nJan\u00e1\u010dek : Kat\u2019a Kabanova (1921)<br \/>\nZemlinsky : Der Zwerg (1922)<br \/>\nYvain : Ta bouche (1922)<br \/>\nJan\u00e1\u010dek : La Petite Renarde rus\u00e9e (1923)<br \/>\nHahn : Ciboulette (1923)<br \/>\nSchoenberg : Erwartung (1924)<br \/>\nSzymanowski : Le Roi Roger (1924)<br \/>\nBerg : Wozzeck (1925)<br \/>\nRavel : L\u2019enfant et les sortil\u00e8ges (1925)<br \/>\nPuccini : Turandot (1926)<br \/>\nJan\u00e1\u010dek : De la maison des morts (1928)<br \/>\nWeill : L\u2019op\u00e9ra de quat\u2019sous (1928)<br \/>\nAbraham : Viktoria und ihr Husar (1930)<br \/>\nLeh\u00e1r : Giuditta (1934)<br \/>\nChostakovitch : Lady Macbeth du district de Mtsensk (1934)<br \/>\nZemlinsky : Le Roi Candaule (1935, cr\u00e9ation en 1996)<br \/>\nGershwin : Porgy and Bess (1935)<br \/>\nEnesco : \u0152dipe (1936)<br \/>\nBerg : Lulu (1937)<br \/>\nHindemith : Mathis der Mahler (1938)<br \/>\nStrauss : Capriccio (1942)<br \/>\nBritten : Peter Grimes (1945)<br \/>\nMenotti : The Medium (1946)<br \/>\nPoulenc : Les mamelles de Tir\u00e9sias (1947)<br \/>\nDallapiccola : Il Prigioniero (1949)<br \/>\nBritten : Billy Budd (1951)<br \/>\nStravinsky : The Rake\u2019s Progress (1951)<br \/>\nPoulenc : Dialogues des Carm\u00e9lites (1953)<br \/>\nBritten : Le tour d\u2019\u00e9crou (1954)<br \/>\nFloyd : Susannah (1955)<br \/>\nBernstein : Candide (1956)<br \/>\nPoulenc : La voix humaine (1959)<br \/>\nLigeti : Le Grand Macabre (1978)<br \/>\nMessiaen : Saint-Fran\u00e7ois d\u2019Assise (1983)<br \/>\nGlass : Aknathen (1983)<br \/>\nAdams : Nixon in China (1987)<br \/>\nBoesmans : Reigen (1993)<br \/>\nAdams : I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky (1995)<br \/>\nPrevin : A streetcar named desire (1995)<br \/>\nAd\u00e8s : Powder her face (1995)<br \/>\nE\u00f6tv\u00f6s : Trois s\u0153urs (1998)<br \/>\nSaariaho : L\u2019amour de loin (2000)<br \/>\nHosokawa : Hanjo (2004)<br \/>\nSaariaho : La Passion de Simone (2006)<br \/>\nChin : Alice au pays des merveilles (2007)<br \/>\nBenjamin : Written on Skin (2012)<br \/>\nKurtag : Fin de partie (2018)<br \/>\nDefoort : Le temps o\u00f9 nous chantions (2021)<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:34px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=72392\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French website Forum Opera has just given us a list of 199 operas that you should experience before you die. There are a &#8220;few&#8221; on the list that I have not yet experienced and there is not an extraordinary length of time left for me to finish this task. \u00a0Did they miss anything? 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