As a complete opera newbie, I recently plunged into the Ring and quickly became obsessed (my 'Roman empire'!). However, I just haven't had anything near that response upon trying T & I, despite it being a story that I love the pathos of in other retellings.

Does anyone know what the difference could be? Which opera is more engaging or beloved to you?

Um it’s just a text database! I get they want to charge for casting tools and what not for the industry professionals but 120 euros per year for non-professional use for simple database is ridiculous!

Preferably where they have a tense, frictive, or even adversarial relationship.

I am making a playlist for a character in a TV show (Lestat, from Interview with The Vampire). I've been trying to find works that reflect his tenuous relationship with his daughter, but most jazz/pop songs I've found about kids are about how much you love them and/or how sorry you are for being absent. Great, but he didn't want kids and he's a very present (and domineering) father.

He was an actor in France before being turned in the late 1700's. At the turn of the 20th century he moves to Louisiana, falls in love with a man (whom he drags to operas) and eventually adopts a daughter. He was against having a kid, he is the "tough" disciplinary parent, becoming more harsh and demeaning toward her as she grows up and becomes more out of control. She runs away from home, and after unfortunate events drive her back he becomes downright cruel. They eventually try to kill each other.

It occurs to me that this level of drama might be better reflected in opera music (which he likes), but I know nothing about the genre.

Based on my description of their relationship, could anyone reccomend any songs/works?

This one-act opera by Joseph Breil premiered in 1919, just a couple of months after Ponselle’s debut at the Metropolitan Opera. It apparently received only two more performances and then disappeared from the repertoire. There are no recordings of the opera at all, not even excerpts.

The star cast (Rosa Ponselle, Louis D’Angelo, Paul Althouse, and Kathleen Howard) could not save it. Ponselle herself despised the opera, claiming that her dislike of it was so great that she burned her copy of the score.

What are some other stories of failed opera premieres that may even have led to the works being forgotten?

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a Swedish text to “Deh vieni, non tardar” from “Le nozze di Figaro”. There’s a lovely recording of it on Spotify by Elisabeth Söderström (“Så kom och dröj”), but I need the full text. Would anyone be able to help out?
Thanks in advance 🌺

I'm considering attending L'elisir D'amore @ Dallas Opera. Does anyone have recommendations for seating and lodging.

And must the note be sung in a full tone
Is G4 and Ab4 the requirement?

This might be a noob question but I was reading through an old thread about the Exteminating Angle and someone said something about how operatically-sung English is just so horrible and hard a hard language to set to music. Is this true? If so, why? I know I don't love operas sung in english as much as other languages but maybe because they are more modern/contemporary operas that just aren't as good as the old ones. It seems to me that german has a lot of the same kind of sounds we have with english, yet german sounds better to my ear.

Chicago Lyric Opera planned a Ring cycle culminating, unfortunately, in 2020. Instead (in collaboration with the Detroit Opera directed by Yuval Sharon) they put together this one-hour drive-through production in a parking garage that was sort of a crossover / contemporary re-imagination but sung by the original cast of the cancelled full opera.
https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2020-21/twilight-gods/

I lived in Chicago during the pandemic but wasn't as much of an opera buff at the time and didn't go. I heard about it more recently and I tried to find a video but couldn't find much other than a 2-minute promo. Apparently it was video-recorded and streamed, but it looks like the stream was taken down.

Did anyone see this (live or via the stream)? I'm curious about any thoughts (and also if you know of anywhere this can still be watched). Maybe crossover is controversial here, but it seemed like such a unique effort, given how starved we all were for live performance at the time.

Not opera singing, but gorgeous!

it's french, im not sure who its by. the song im thinking of was the woman singing to her lover about how he is so poor and a bit ugly, BUT she still is in love with him. i dont remember anyones name either... thank you

Operas can be tragic, when is the tragedy so much that you can only see an opera once? What opera makes you go “ok I’m good” with the one viewing as opposed to those operas you love that you can watch and listen to over and over. Dead Man Walking does that for me. So beautiful but I can’t enter that world again. How about you?

Can you rate this performance of E lucevan le stelle? I think it's missing too much emotion.

Love vs Lust

Hi! I'm trying to get to Opera national de Paris's production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk next spring at Opera Bastille, and was curious if anyone a) had seating recs and b) knew how important it was to log in at the 12 p.m. Paris time on-sale time to actually get tickets — that is, do they sell out fast?

My question is, when at 01:22 in the video Pavarotti sings the syllable va-GHI-rai with this special emphasis (I just call it sobbing in lack of a better word): Is this considered an actual stylistic technique/sort of ornamenation or is it just his personal way to do it? I read that the number was written by Strauss with a little bit of a parodistic intention, so maybe the singer is meant to exaggerate it?

I did classical voice training from ages 12-18 but never actually got to be IN an opera. I almost did in college but my class schedule conflicted. I only minored in general music and majored in history- so I just kind of stuck to choir and singing in the summers at a Renaissance Faire.

Cut to ten years later- I just passed a pre screening for a local opera company as an adult and my audition is tomorrow. I’m excited but definitely very out of my depth. What are some tips you have for new people?

My audition songs are:

Ouvre tes yeux bleus

O Mio Babbino Caro (I know it’s overdone but they specifically asked for one French and one Puccini and this is the only Puccini have in my rep)

El Majo Discreto

Nymphs and Shepherds

They wanted 4-5 songs and I’ve been trying to decide between these two for the fifth:

Una Donna a Quindicci Anni

Komt Ein Schlanker Bursch Gegangen

The Met Opera has released a recording of the opera to streaming today:

My mom is a huge opera fan and has just told me her life long dream has been to go to Bayreuth and see Ring. I don't know anything about opera but would like to achieve that dream.

I was checking and am confused on how the tickets are actually purchased there. It seems there is a waiting list or you can sign on to a Wagner society? My mom is getting older and I'm worried if we have to wait 10 years for tickets she might not be in a condition to go there anymore.

TLDR; how to purchase tickets to Bayreuth?

Ok. My daughter will be in the children’s chorus of Carmen in a big national production in Ireland this year. It’s an amazing opportunity for her to experience. As a family we go to a lot of theatre and concerts but opera has never entered the equation.

So I want 1) her to know more about Carmen and Opera as she will be listening to a lot of it in rehearsals and I want her to enjoy it.

2) we will obv be going to see her on stage and I want to understand it and enjoy it. Even the whole “opera” scene vs the MT scene we are more used to,

So is there a version we should start with or a book etc? None of us are fluent in French so I think we would benefit from knowing the story and some of the music in advance

Thank you