Comments on: Top 10 Stunning 20th Century Operas http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Sat, 26 May 2012 16:12:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tim http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-469409 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:13:59 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-469409 No Peter Grimes?

]]> By: peter8172 http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-433995 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:34:22 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-433995 “Billy Budd” composed by Benjamin Britten ???

]]> By: peter http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-372940 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:41:16 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-372940 Nice list. Somewhat Anglo Saxon though. Allow me to mention that the great Puccini did compose well into the 20th century.Doesn’t his combining folksong simplicity with verisms and complex harmony deserve mentioning here ?

]]> By: Michel http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-236663 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:42:29 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-236663 Woouaah!! I don’t know nothing in modern opera, but this list is very impressive.
Thanks so much for posting that.

]]> By: Nick http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-183346 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:48:55 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-183346 The Rake’s Progress is not a good opera. I find it derivative and trashy.

]]> By: Nick http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-183344 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:47:29 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-183344 Not a good list.

Prokofiev’s Fiery Angel, Gambler, or War and Peace need to be in there.

How you can have a list of great 20th century operas without Prokofiev?!

]]> By: Anon http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-105420 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:30:14 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-105420 Two late additions, apparently unknown to Jamie and others here:

‘Maskarade’ (1906), Carl Nielsen
(“It is sad so brilliant and delightful an opera … has so far failed to get a foothold in the international repertory …” The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs.)

‘Julietta’ (1938), Bohuslav Martinu
(“… the ear is mesmerized from the very start, when the howling of a high basoon introduces the astonishingly original prelude …” ibid.)

]]> By: jfrater http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-52598 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:41:32 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-52598 mezzalyrica1184: Hey! Not true! I love the Medium and the Telephone! Consider him 11 :)

Judit: Thanks :) We are both in the same boat over our extraordinary performance of such a great opera :) Maybe we can reprise our roles when I return!

]]> By: mezzalyrica1184 http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-52597 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:35:06 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-52597 not a Menotti fan, are we jfrater? :)

]]> By: Judit http://listverse.com/2008/03/17/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/comment-page-1/#comment-51146 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:00:22 +0000 http://listverse.com/music/top-10-stunning-20th-century-operas/#comment-51146 Another great list Jamie. :)
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is of course my favourite, although maybe I’m biased. The opera, and playing Judit effected me for a long time too. Unforgettable.

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