Tag: Top Ten
Top Ten: Most Powerful High Note
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 powerful high note in any given “aria”? 10. Samson and Dalilah – Act IV “Finale” 9. Die tote Stadt – “Pierrot’s Tanzlied” 8. Die Entfürung [...]
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. [...]
Top Ten: What is the sexiest opera?
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 sexiest opera?” 10. Tannhauser by Wagner 9. Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saens 8. Romeo et Juliette by Gounod 7. Don Giovanni by Mozart 6. Tosca by [...]
Top Ten: What are your favorite soprano arias?
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 are your most favorite soprano arias?” 10. Una voce poco fa from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini 9. Un bel di from Madame Butterfly by Puccini 8. [...]
Top Ten: Your Most Favorite Opera Character
OperaPulse fans, you have created our Top Ten list! We’ve compiled your comments from Facebook, Twitter and through interviews to provide the answer to this weeks’s question: “Who is your favorite opera character?” 10. Leporello in Don Giovanni 9. Mimi in La Boheme 8. Scarpia in Tosca 7. Despina in Cosi fan tutte 6. Carmen [...]
Top Ten: Best “First-Timer” Operas
OperaPulse fans, you have created our Top Ten list! We’ve compiled your comments from Facebook, Twitter and through interviews to provide the answer to this week’s question: “What is the best opera to introduce to ‘first-timers’?” 10. Tosca by Puccini 9. Don Giovanni by Mozart 8. La Traviata by Verdi 7. Turandot by Puccini 6. [...]
Top Ten – Most Important Operatic Figures in History
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: Who are the most important figures in the history of opera? 10. Enrico Caruso 9. Gioachino Rossini 8. Giacomo Puccini 7. Giuseppe Verdi 6. Maria Callas 5. Wolfgang Amadeus [...]
Opera’s Top 10
Who doesn’t like a good ‘Top Ten’ list? They can be controversial, educational, or just plain entertaining. We’ve polled thousands of our followers on Facebook and Twitter and compiled their answers here to questions like: What are your ‘Favorite Operas,’ what is the ‘Best Opera to Introduce to First-Timers’ or what are you’re ‘Favorite Opera [...]
