Top Ten: What is the Hardest Opera to Direct?

OperaPulse fans, you have created our Top Ten list! We’ve compiled your comments from Facebook, Twitter and interviews to provide the answer to last week’s question:

“What is the most difficult opera to direct?”

10. Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots

9. Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

8. Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea

7. Puccini’s Tosca

6. Handel’s… Any opera by Handel!

5. Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro

4. Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride

3. Verdi’s Il Trovatore

2. Verdi’s Aida

1. Wagner’s Ring Cycle