Put a Ring on it
With over 2,600 votes cast over the course of last week, you, the cher public have spoken about which operas in the Met’s repertoire will be de rigueur, can’t miss, where-the-elite-meet Sternstunden, and which productions promise no more than a great big snooze.
The top ten Met offerings will be Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Le Comte Ory, Boris Godunov, Nixon in China, Don Carlo, Pelléas et Mélisande, Wozzeck, Capriccio and La Fanciulla del West. La Cieca needs hardly point out, need she, that of next season’s seven new productions, six are in the top ten.
Very few of you want to return to La Bohème (which finished in 22nd place out of 28 presentations, and the family presentation of Die Zauberflöte is the only opera less popular than the revival of Armida.
Following are the complete and utterly unscientific results.
Which productions at the Met can’t be missed?
| Die Walküre | 297 |
| Das Rheingold | 283 |
| Le Comte Ory | 238 |
| Boris Godunov | 220 |
| Nixon in China | 199 |
| Don Carlo | 179 |
| Pelléas et Mélisande | 143 |
| Wozzeck | 143 |
| Capriccio | 135 |
| La Fanciulla del West | 124 |
| The Queen of Spades | 76 |
| Così fan tutte | 73 |
| Ariadne auf Naxos | 66 |
| Il Trovatore | 60 |
| Iphigénie en Tauride | 58 |
| Don Pasquale | 53 |
| Simon Boccanegra | 36 |
| Lucia di Lammermoor | 32 |
| Orfeo ed Euridice | 28 |
| La Traviata | 25 |
| Roméo et Juliette | 25 |
| La Bohème | 21 |
| Carmen | 19 |
| Rigoletto | 18 |
| Tosca | 18 |
| Les Contes d’Hoffmann | 16 |
| Armida | 11 |
| Die Zauberflöte | 10 |
If he were not such a hateful person, Glen Beck’s rant on Wagner could be very enjoyable:
I will never understand how Beck rose to prominence from his trivial career as a talk show host. This one is NOT enjoyable:
No but this is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk&feature=related
Forgot the v
I find this utterly hateful, homophobic, intellectually dishonest, and willfully ignorant.
If you want to parody Wagner, take a lesson from Anna Russell or Bugs Bunny.