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[AlbertCat]

7. Le Nozze di Figaro.

My #1 opera. (18th century of course) It's perfection.

#2 is Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" (17th century...yikes!)

and #3 is "Les Contes de Hoffmann"


I also have a thing for Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex". There's a good film of a stage production done in Japan (so it has all these Japanese theatre elements in it... the "Speaker", who is supposed to speak in the vernacular of the audience, speaks Japanese. The libretto of the Greek myth is in Latin....very cross-cultural)
Jocasta's aria is so amazing.

Why here it is! (close ups of Jesse Norman's face (and the other singers) destroy the effect of the tall masks on their heads.... where the "face" should be. But what do you do with a film....?)

I suppose we should go to the "opera board"....