Carlos M Nash :: Personal :: Opera

Das Rheingold. The one where we start under water, where a goddess is walled up in gold blocks, one giant kills another, and a dwarf turns into a toad. London, Flagstad, Watson, Kmentt, and Wächter. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Die Walküre. The one about a sword being pulled out of a tree, the ride of the Valkyries, and a ring of fire being ignited around our heroine. King, Crespine, Frick, Hotter, Nilsson, and Ludwig. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Die Walküre. The one about a sword being pulled out of a tree, the ride of the Valkyries, and a ring of fire being ignited around our heroine. King, Rysanek, Nilsson, Adam, and Burmeister. Böhm. Orchester der Bayreuther Festspieler.

Siegfried. The one where Siegfried turns blacksmith and forges a sword with which he kills a dwarf and a dragon and then walks through fire to discover eternal love. Windgassen, Nilsson, Hotter, Stolze, and Neidlinger. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Götterdämmerung. The one where Siegfried makes new friends who stab him in the back, where Brünnhilde is very brave, and Valhalla goes up in flames. Nilsson, Windgassen, Neidlinger, Frick, Watson, and Fischer-Dieskau. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Tristan und Isolde. The one with two lovers, a love potion, and a love death. Windgassen, Talvel, Nilsson, Wächter, Heater, and Ludwig. Böhm. Orchester der Bayreuther Festspieler.

Tristan und Isolde. The one with two lovers, a love potion, and a love death. Nilsson, Uhl, Resnik, van Mill, and Krause. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Der fliegende Holländer. The one where the Dutchman seeks a good woman to release him from sailing the high seas for ever: he finds one who jumps off a cliff and they both ascend to heaven. Adam, Silja, Talvela, Kozub, and Burmeister. Klemperer.

Der fliegende Holländer. The one where the Dutchman seeks a good woman to release him from sailing the high seas for ever: he finds one who jumps off a cliff and they both ascend to heaven. Bailey, Martin, Kollo, and Talvela. Solti. Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Lohengrin. The one with a mysterious knight who arrives on a boat that is pulled by a swan, a forbidden question, a transfiguration. Thomas, Grümmer, Ludwig, and Fischer-Dieskau. Kempe. Wiener Philharmonker.

Lohengrin. The one with a mysterious knight who arrives on a boat that is pulled by a swan, a forbidden question, a transfiguration. Kónya, Amara, Dooly, and Gorr. Leinsdorf. Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Parsifal. The one where a simple-minded teenager by shooting a swan gets involved with a religious sect whose king is permanently wounded and whose official messenger is a convertible womean, sometimes witch, sometimes houri. London, Talvela, and Hotter. Böhm. Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The one with a disagreeable town clerk, a noble cobbler, a street brawl, and a prize song. Weikl, Heppner, Studer, Moll, van der Walt, and Kallisch. Sawallisch. Bayerisches Staatsorchester.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The one with a disagreeable town clerk, a noble cobbler, a street brawl, and a prize song. Van Dam, Heppner, Opie, and Mattila. Solti. Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Tannhäuser. The one where the Pilgrims sing their Chorus, where Venus loses her man, and where runner beans start to grow out of the Pope's staff. Kollo, Ludwig, Sotin, and Dernesch. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Ariadne auf Naxos. The one where a troupe of comedians are instructed to do their act on stage at the same time as a classical tragedy, with confusing consequences. Schwarzkopf, Streich, Seefried, and Schock. Karajan. Philharmonia Orchestra.

Der Rosenkavalier. The one where a Field Marshal's wife sends her lover to assist in the wedding of her cousin with the unforeseen result that he falls in love with the cousin's bride and she loses him. Schwarzkopf, Edelmann, Ludwig, and Wächter. Karajan. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Der Rosenkavalier. The one where a Field Marshal's wife sends her lover to assist in the wedding of her cousin with the unforeseen result that he falls in love with the cousin's bride and she loses him. Crespin, Jungwirth, Minton, Wiener, and Donath. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Salome. The one where Salome does the dance of the Seven Veils and gets the head of John the Baptist in return. Nilsson, Stolze, Hoffman, Wächter, Kmennt, and Veasey. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Arabella. The one where a desparate gambler dresses one of his daughter as a boy, lots of love letters are passed, and the boy reveals she's really a girl and is in love with an officer. Edelmann, Malaniuk, della Casa, Gueden, and London. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Elektra. The one where the half-crazy Elektra gets her brother Orest to avenge her father's murder by killing her mother Klytemnästra and her mother's lover Aegisth. Resnik, Nilsson, Collier, and Stolze. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Die Frau ohne Schatten. The one with a woman, who was previously a gazelle, cannot cast a shadow, an attempt to steal someone else's shadow, an emporer who is turned into stone. Domingo, Varady, Runkel, and van Dam. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Die Zauberflöte. The one with three temples, three ladies, three boys, a birdcatcher, the Queen of the Night, and a serpent. Moll, Heilmann, Jo, Ziesak, and Leitner. Solti. Wiener Philharmoniker.

Carmen. Carmen is unforgettable, but for opera amnesiacs it is the one with the tor-ee-a-dor song, the gypsy Carmen, and the simple soldier who stabs her to death. de los Angeles, Gedda, Micheau, and Blanc. Beecham. Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française.

Die lustige Witwe. The one with a really cool party, a rich widow, and man who falls in love with her, thus saving an impoverished country. Schwarzkopf, Wächter, Knapp, and Gedda. Matacic. Philharmonia Orchestra.

Die Herzogin von Chicago. The one where a rich American lady who dances the slowfox and Charleston falls in love with a run-away prince who pretends to not be a prince, and a not-so-Hollywood ending. Wollrich, Riedel, Groop, and Paleqalo. Bonynge. Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.