Anybody else listen to Italian opera?

[Regs]

Last summer, I went to Italy and Greece to meet up with old family cousins of mine. One of my older cousins decided to take me to an Italian Opera house. It was not like a modern day opera house,
however surrounded by a magnificent and beautiful village lit up with la terns on every street corner. The opera house was more of a open coliseum surrounded by ancient roman marble pillars and buildings.

I was captivated to say the least. Me being an American who listens to NIN and Nirvana, I'm now heart struck of the true beauty of Opera.

Just wondering if any can recommend any composers or albums I can look for to try to recap my visit to Italy.

Grazie !

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Verdi is da bomb!

 

[Legendary]

I would if I knew Italian, but alas I don't. I just stick with regular classical.

 

[DrPizza]

love it. Don't listen often though..

 

[bleeb]

Verdi is good.

Orfeo

Mozart

 

[fluxquantum]

i listen to mostly classical but opera can be good stuff

 

[ChefJoe]

Sure, though I normally get a copy of the opera dubbed in english or subtitled in english from the library, watch it once or twice so I know the story, plot, what's going on, then listen to the opera so I can figure out what's going on when they're singing, what they're singing about. I'm still a sucker for Pucini.

 

[Schadenfroh]

that one CS map, cs_italy has a radio that sings opera, i shoot it everytime i spawn.

 

[Novgrod]

the best opera house in the world is the stadtsoper in Vienna. I saw The Barber of Seville there--really ridiculously impressive.

 

[GoingUp]

i like mozart

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Novgrod
the best opera house in the world is the stadtsoper in Vienna. I saw The Barber of Seville there--really ridiculously impressive.

I was there

 

[AnyMal]

Are you interested in classical music in general or opera in particular? If opera, then anything Mozart, Grieg, Verdi, Leoncvallo, Wagner (a bit "dark" sometimes), Chaikovsky will be good.

 

[Haller]

I'd reccomend Mozart, Verdi, and Rossini. There are more but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Are you interested in classical music in general or opera in particular? If opera, then anything Mozart, Grieg, Verdi, Leoncvallo, Wagner (a bit "dark" sometimes), Chaikovsky will be good.

Classical, orchestrated, and opera yes. Thanks for the recommendations! I was hoping to find at least a few.

 

[Miramonti]

pucini!

la boheme is a great story wit great arias.

wagner sounds great but dont ever go see one...they are freakin 5 hours.

 

[imported_Papi]

It is definately growing on me. Opera.