Mozart died only weeks after completing it. Pure, inane, fizzing delight, ferociously difficult to sing: The Barber of Seville, written in a fortnight by a composer who had penned 35 operas by the age of 37 then abruptly retired, tops the list of all operatic comedies. The William Tell overture is one of the most famous pieces of classical music.
Yet Rossini's enormous, final opera, involving the fight for Swiss freedom, remains a rarity — despite thrilling arias and exciting choruses. Boasting the famous Casta Diva aria, Norma is the ultimate bel canto tragedy about a druid priestess who, secretly, has two children and an erring lover, with catastrophic results. Bellini's extravagant, melodic operas — Il Pirata, La Sonnambula — provide a musical stepping stone from Rossini to Verdi.
Frequently performed and a cheerfully reassuring first step into opera, this is the comic tale of the fraudulent quack Dulcamara who dupes the poor, lovesick Nemorino with his "elixir"; melodic, witty, heart-warming and touchingly silly. The exuberant and prolific Donizetti's sharp humour is at play in the shrewish character of the love object, Adina. No one provides a better coloratura "mad scene" — a 19th-century Romantic opera habit — than Donizetti in Lucia, based on Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor.
Scott's novels were all the rage in Europe, with 16 turned into operas by, among others, Bellini, Rossini and Bizet. Verdi, one of opera's greats, had a long career. For many his Egyptian Aida is an ideal first opera.
For dramatic intensity, Rigoletto — compact, tuneful, melodramatic — is even better. The hunchback prompts pity when he tries to protect his daughter. Perhaps Verdi's most performed work, La Traviata contains all the elements of operatic addiction: a beautiful, consumptive, fallen-woman heroine, grand Parisian party scenes, the travails of love, a troubled father and a deathbed scene, all set to Verdi's faultless score.
Hard to beat. Known in both its French and Italian versions, this enormous five-act work based on Schiller shows Verdi at the height of his powers. Politics, kingship, heresy, adultery and love combine with incomparable pomp and solemnity, with a score to match. Like Otello written in a final, brilliant outpouring in , Falstaff — after Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor — is a Verdian favourite among buffs, though some find its quixotic, quick-fire charms less beguiling.
Knowledge of the final fugue, celebrating the folly of the human condition Tutto nel Mondo is essential to any opera lover's armament. Considered the stronger half of the popular "Cav and Pag" double bill, Pagliacci the clowns is Leoncavallo's one surviving hit, usually paired with Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Pag cleverly uses a commedia dell'arte troupe to enact a verismo tragedy. Mimi, the Bohemian seamstress of the title, her poet lover Rodolfo and their destitute Parisian friends capture the pains and pleasures of young love in an attic.
Dubbed a "shabby little shocker", Tosca opens with three crashing orchestral chords and never lets up until the opera-singer heroine, having stabbed the villain Scarpia and watched her artist-lover Cavaradossi die, leaps to her own death.
He abandons her, then returns with a wife. Catastrophe ensues. After a first-night disaster, it became one of the best-loved operas. Puccini's final opera is about the man-hating Chinese queen Turandot, and Calaf, the man who finally melts her icy heart. When Puccini died leaving the opera incomplete, it was finished by a composer friend, Alfano. Others have also tried, but Alfano's is the version commonly used.
Written to a backdrop of revolution, Beethoven's only opera is a hymn to freedom and marital love. Leonora dresses as a man, Fidelio, to rescue her husband Florestan from imprisonment.
The spoken dialogue and huge orchestra present performance challenges but the rewards — the Mir ist So Wunderbar ensemble, the Prisoners' choruses, Florestan's cry of "Gott!
The title of this opera translates as The Marksman and it is set in a Bohemian forest during the 30 years war.
It concerns the shooting trials of young hunters to win their lovers. The hero Max transgresses by using "free" magic bullets. Good and evil struggle in a vivid, tuneful display of high German Romanticism. Not often staged. Catch it when it is. This is perhaps the last great Romantic opera, rich with symbolism, myth, taboo: the innocent Elsa of Brabant is accused of murdering her brother.
A knight in shining armour arrives in a swan-drawn boat. He will help her so long as she doesn't ask his name. She does. You can guess what it is. The ultimate, transcendent, no-holds-barred "love in death" experience, ending with Isolde's Liebestod. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last Jump to page: Results 1 to 15 of Thread Tools Show Printable Version.
Aug, 1. Hello, I would like to create a single thread in order to bring some convenience to those looking for online links to operas but are needing English subtitles. I know I would appreciate it Hopes for posts: 1. Full performance or clear links to the next segment. English subtitles the entire performance , including operas with English libretto. No quality requirement, but please add a note if it is particularly bad. Any form of dramatization is alright movie, stage, animation - not just an image of a CD cover , but again, please specify.
Aug, 2. Sometimes on youtube you can have the subtitles translated to your preferred language it will not be a perfect translation but it is acceptable are those accepted too? Aug, 3. Aug, 4. Originally Posted by Sloe. Aug, 5. Aug, 6. Sir John in Love. Song of Norway. The Adventures of Pinocchio. The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern. The Bassarids. The Bear. The Beggar's Opera. The Bell Tower. The Burning Fiery Furnace.
The Canterbury Pilgrims. The Catiline Conspiracy. The Cave. The Consul. The Cooper. The Corley Conspiracy. The Crucible. The Death of Klinghoffer. The Doctor of Myddfai. The Duchess of Dantzic. The Duenna. The Electrification of the Soviet Union. The End of the Affair.
The English Cat. The Eternity Man. The Fairy Prince. The Fairy-Queen. The First Emperor. The Flood. The Fly. The Ghosts of Versailles. The Gondoliers. The Great Gatsby. The Handmaid's Tale. The History of Sir Francis Drake. The Ice Break. The Immortal Hour. The Io Passion. The Juniper Tree. The Knot Garden. The Last Supper. The Lighthouse.
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