Thursday Special

Thursday’s Something Else is a horizon expanding project I do so I’m not stuck with just the same old few operas I love. Every week I try to listen to an opera that is completely new to me, often from a composer I haven’t listened to before. I found some treasures this way and some not so hot pieces. Some of them I liked enough to have gone on to see live (marked with +). Here’s a list of the ones I covered so far:

• Doktor Faustus
• Tannhäuser +

• The Nose +
• Rasputin
• La voix humaine +
• La forza del destino +

• From the House of the Dead
• Médée
• La Juive
• Akhnaten +

• King Roger +
• Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna
• Les Huguenots
• Prima la musica, poi le parole

• The Love of Three Oranges
• Andrea Chenier
• The Haunted Manor/Straszny Dwor
• Rusalka

• Mignon
• Die Gezeichneten
• Lulu
• The Devil of Loudun

• La legende de Sainte Cecile
• An Index of Metals
• The Gift of the Magi
• Amahl and the Night Visitors

• Porgy and Bess
• Les pecheurs de perles
• Il mondo della luna +
• Cleofide

• Sancta Susanna +
• Adriana Lecouvreur +
• Il Guarany
• The Makropulos Case

• The bartered Bride
• Moses and Aaron
• Written on Skin +
• Dialogues des carmelites

• Cavalleria rusticana +
• Gianni Schicchi
• Mathis der Maler
• Il retablo de Maese Pedro