The list of operas in which one of them has appeared without the other is not long.
In any list of operas that have drawn the absolute best from the conductor James Levine, Wagner's "Meistersinger" would be near the top.
The late-nineteenth-century Encyclopædic Dictionary defined a "repertoire" as "the list of operas, dramas, &c., which can be readily performed by an operatic or dramatic company, from their familiarity with them".
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There is a whole list of great operas that are arguably too long.
That piece about a disabled child miraculously cured may be simple and sentimental and mostly in C major, but it works – and still appears in lists of "most performed operas in the world".
To the list of pop-opera crossover odd couples – John Denver and Placido Domingo, Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé – is now added Van Morrison and Bryn Terfel.
On Monday night at Alice Tully Hall, the Teatro Grattacielo Orchestra, with the Oratorio Society of New York, presented the North American premiere of a 1925 work by Riccardo Zandonai that has, at the least, shot to the top of my list of favorite opera titles: "I Cavalieri di Ekebu".
Protective headgear is not what you might expect to find on the props list of an opera that takes place in a five-star hotel in central London, but we're in the boiler room in the bowels of the building, and it's the chorus who'll be wearing hard hats.
The Shakespeare entry in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera lists "Shakespearean" operas by the hundreds: a vertiginous catalog of the vanity of human wishes.
