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Hamlet’s dad really rolled up shirtless. (I like the spooky music that plays when he sings.)

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OPERA TAG

Favourite Italian opera: La Rondine/La Boheme (Puccini wrote some gorgeous operas and they make me cry all the time.)

Favourite German-language opera: Salome

Opera with the most nostalgic appeal: Tosca (It was my first opera!)

Favourite French opera: Tales of Hoffman

Opera that makes you cry the most: La Boheme, La Rondine, Tosca, and anything else by Puccini probably.

Favourite English-language opera:  The Consul/ The Medium

Favourite comic opera: La Fille du Regiment

Favourite 20th Century opera: The Medium/Wozzek/Sweeney Todd

Favorite pre-classical opera: Alcina

Favourite Mozart opera: La Nozze di Figaro

Favorite Verdi opera: Rigoletto

Favourite Wagner opera: None. That man wrote nothing worth my time. 

Most overrated opera: Anything by Wagner.

Favourite operatic heroine: Violetta

Favorite operatic leading male: Zuniga (RB if you agree)

Favourite operatic villain: Salome

Favourite opera for introducing the genre to children: Wozzek (no JK, probably Hansel and Gretel)

Favourite opera to see during the holiday season: La Boheme

Opera you’re embarrassed that you love: H.M.S. Pinafore (It’s an operetta but still)

Opera that has an unfairly bad reputation: Elektra (I don’t care if you think atonal music isn’t music. It is)

Favourite opera that’s a sequel to another opera: Ghosts of Versailles

Favourite silly operatic convention: The soprano mad scene

Opera you could listen to again and again: La Boheme, Sweeney Todd, Lucia di Lammermoor

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Facts: Richard Wagner’s operas have no plot, are far too long, and all the music sounds the same. 

Also facts: He gets way too much credit for ‘revolutionizing’ opera when he really didn’t do anything new except make a two hour storyline drag on for six hours.