wagnertuba 27 Dec 2009 at 3:47pm (Report this message)

 I've heard and seen the beloved established masterpieces of the operatic repertoire so often that I'm always looking for recordings and DVDs of obscure but unjustly neglected operas that deserve to be better known.

 Fortunately, record companies and opera companies everywhere have revived and also recorded so many obscure but really interesting operas.

 Here's a random list of some in my CD collection : Albert Roussel: Padmavati. Gheorghe Enescu: Oedipe. Franz Schmidt: Notre Dame. Ernst Krenek: Jonny Spielt Auf. Walter Braunfels: The Birds.  Bedrich Smetana: Libuse . The Devil's Wall . The Kiss .

Dvorak :  Armida . The Devil and Kate . Zemlinsky :  A Florentine Tragedy . Ervin Schulhoff : Flammen . Heinrich Marschner: Der Vampyr . Eugen D'aAlbert: Tiefland . Alfredo Catalani : La Wally .

Handel : Riccardo Primo . Janacek :  The Excursions of Mr. Broucek. Osud (Fate) . Prokofiev : Semyon Kotko . The Gambler . Rimsky-Korsakov : The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh . Sadko . The Maid Of Pskov .  Kashchei the Immortal . Anton Rubinstein : The Demon .

 Riccardo Zandonai : Francesca Da Rimini . Hindemith : Sancta Susanna . Carl Nielsen : Saul and David . Hans Pfitzner : Palestrina .

Richard Strauss :  Intermezzo . Die Liebe Der Danae . Friedenstag . Die Agyptische Hlelna . Daphne . Gluck . Armide . Louis Spohr : Faust .

 All these are well-worth hearing . Any others here with interesting operas to recommend ?  Please let me know .