Cele mai mari opere, cele mai populare, cele mai cunoscute

Topul 10 al celor mai populare opere (adica dupa numarul de reprezentatii din toate tarile, conform sistemului global de monitorizare) sunt:

1. Giuseppe Verdi – Traviata
2. Georges Bizet – Carmen
3. Giacomo Puccini – Boema
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Flautul fermecat
5. Giacomo Puccini – Tosca
6. Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly
7. Gioachino Rossini – Barbierul din Sevilia
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Nunta lui Figaro
9. Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni
    

Interesant este topul celor mai bune opere scrise vreodata facut de catre specialistii Sinfini Music, dupa criterii tehnice, specifice domeniului:

1. Berg – Wozzeck
2. Britten – Peter Grimes
3. Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor
4. Janacek – The Cunning Little Vixen
5. Mozart – Nunta lui Figaro
6. Strauss – Salomeea
7. Puccini – Tosca
8. Puccini – Boema 
9. Verdi – Traviata
10. Wagner – Tristan si Isolda

Si un clasament al celor mai mari 50 de opere scrise vreodata, facut de prestigioasa publicatie britanica The Guardian, lista pusa in ordinea cronologica in care au fost compuse aceste opere!

• Claudio Monteverdi – L’Orfeo (Mantua, Italy, c1607)
• Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (London, UK, 1689)
• George Frideric Handel – Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) (London, UK, 1724)
• George Frideric Handel – Serse (Xerxes) (London, UK, 1738)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orpheus and Eurydice (Vienna, Austria, 1762)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo (Munich, Germany, 1781)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro (Vienna, Austria, 1786)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute (Vienna, Austria, 1791)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio (Vienna, Austria, 1805)
• Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville (Rome, Italy, 1816)
• Carl Maria von Weber – Der Freischütz (Berlin, Germany, 1821)
• Gioachino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) (Paris, France, 1829)
• Vincenzo Bellini – Norma (Milan, Italy, 1831)
• Gaetano Donizetti – L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) (Milan, Italy, 1832)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor (Naples, Italy, 1835)
• Richard Wagner – Lohengrin (Weimar, Germany, 1850)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto (Venice, Italy, 1851)
• Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata (Venice, Italy, 1853)
• Hector Berlioz – Les Troyens (Paris, France 1863 & 1890)
• Richard Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (Munich, Germany, 1865)
• Bedrich Smetana – The Bartered Bride (Prague, Czech Repulbic, 1866)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Don Carlos/ Don Carlo (Paris, France, 1867)
• Richard Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Munich, Germany, 1868)
• Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov (St Petersburg, Russia, 1874)
• Georges Bizet – Carmen (Paris, France, 1875)
• Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth, Germany, 1876)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin (Moscow, Russia, 1879)
• Jules Massenet – Manon (Paris, France, 1884)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Queen of Spades (St Petersburg, Russia, 1890)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo – Pagliacci (Milan, Italy, 1892)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff (Milan, Italy, 1893)
• Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème (Turin, Italy, 1896)
• Giacomo Puccini – Tosca (Rome, Italy, 1900)
• Claude Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande (Paris, France, 1902)
• Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly (Milan, Italy, 1904)
• Leos Janacek – Jenufa (Brno, Czech Republic, 1904)
• Franz Lehár – Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Vienna, Austria, 1905)
• Richard Strauss – Salome (Dresden, Germany, 1905)
• Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier (Dresden, Germany, 1911)
• Béla Bartók – Bluebeard’s Castle (Budapest, Hungary, 1918)
• Alban Berg – Wozzeck (Berlin, Germany, 1925)
• Giacomo Puccini – Turandot (Milan, Rome, 1926)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Moscow, Russia, 1934)
• George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess (New York, US, 1935)
• Sergei Prokofiev – War and Peace (Moscow, Russia, 1944)
• Benjamin Britten – Peter Grimes (London, UK, 1945)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rake’s Progress (Venice, Italy, 1951)
• Benjamin Britten – The Turn of the Screw (Venice, Italy, 1954)
• Michael Tippett – King Priam (Coventry, UK 1962)
• Gyorgy Ligeti – Le Grand Macabre (Stockholm, Sweden, 1978)

Si, in final, o lista a celor mai mari opere compuse vreodata care circula mult pe Internet si care a atras multe comentarii, evident! Oricum, parerea cvasi-unanima este ca cel putin 80 dintre acestea isi merita locul in lista „100 cele mai mari opere din toate timpurile„, chiar daca nu intotdeauna exact in aceasta ierarhie:

1. Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen
2. Richard Wagner – Tristan Und Isolde
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni
4. Giuseppe Verdi – Otello
5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro
6. Giuseppe Verdi – Aida
7. Giacomo Puccini – La Boheme
8. Giacomo Puccini – Madame Butterfly
9. Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier
10. Richard Wagner – Parsifal
11. Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov
12. Giuseppe Verdi – La Traviata
13. Georges Bizet – Carmen
14. Richard Wagner – Die Meistersinger
15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute
16. Giacomo Puccini – Tosca
17. Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff
18. Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto
19. Gioacchino Rossini – The Barber Of Seville
20. Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria Rusticana
21. Giuseppe Verdi – Il Trovatore
22. Giacomo Puccini – Turandot
23. Charles Gounod – Faust
24. Richard Wagner – Lohengrin
25. Benjamin Britten – Peter Grimes
26. Vincenzo Bellini – Norma
27. Richard Wagner – Tannhauser
28. Rugierro Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci
29. Claude Debussy – Pelleas and Mellisande
30. George Gershwin – Porgy & Bess
31. Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia Di Lammermoor
32. Hector Berlioz – Les Troyens
33. Richard Strauss – Elektra
34. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi Fan Tutte
35. Ludwig Van Beethoven – Fidelio
36. Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin
37. Amiliare Ponchielli – La Gioconda
38. Alban Berg – Wozzeck
39. Claudio Monteverdi – Incoronazione di Poppea
40. Richard Strauss – Salome
41. Henry Purcell – Dido and Aneas
42. Leos Janacek – The Cunning Little Vixen
43. Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orpheus and Eurydice
44. Giuseppe Verdi – Don Carlos
45. Claudio Monteverdi – Orfeo
46. Carl Maria von Weber – Der Freischutz
47. Camille Saint-Saens – Samson and Delilah
48. Jacques Offenbach – Tales of Hoffman
49. Engelbert Humperdink – Hansel and Gretel
50. Richard Wagner – The Flying Dutchman
51. Igor Stravinsky – The Rake’s Progress
52. Jules Massenet – Manon
53. Bedrich Smetana – The Bartered Bride
54. Giacomo Meyerbeer – The Huguenots
55. Giuseppe Verdi – La Forza Del Destino
56. Giacomo Puccini – Manon Lescaut
57. Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos
58. Charles Gounod – Romeo and Juliet
59. Gaetano Donizetti – L’Elisir D’Amore
60. Leo Delibes – Lakme
61. Umberto Giordano – Andre Chenier
62. Jules Massenet – Werther
63. Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale
64. Leos Janacek – Jenufa
65. Giacomo Puccini – The Girl of the Golden West
66. Vincenzo Bellini – La Sonnambula
67. Benjamin Britten – Turn of the Screw
68. Bela Bartok – Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
69. Gioacchino Rossini – William Tell
70. Giuseppe Verdi – The Masked Ball
71. Georg Friedrich Handel – Julius Caesar
72. Giovanni Pergolesi – La Serva Padrona
73. Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Die Tote Stadt
74. Gustave Charpentier – Louise
75. Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele
76. Vincenzo Bellini – I Puritani
77. Gioacchino Rossini – Semiramide
78. Giacomo Meyerbeer – L’Africaine
79. Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux
80. Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola
81. Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky – Pique Dame
82. Benjamin Britten – Billy Budd
83. Gaetano Donizetti – La Fille du Regiment
84. Giacomo Meyerbeer – Le Prophete
85. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff – Le Coq D’or
86. Giuseppe Verdi – McBeth
87. Georges Bizet – Les Pecheurs des Perles
88. Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Pilgrim’s Progress
89. Giuseppe Verdi – Ernani
90. Giacomo Puccini – Gianni Schicchi
91. Hector Berlioz – Beatrice et Benedict
92. Giuseppe Verdi – Simon Boccanegra
93. Alexander Borodin – Prince Igor
94. Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco
95. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Abduction from the Seraglio
96. Carl Maria von Weber – Euryanthe
97. Frances Poulenc – Dialogues des Carmelites
98. Jean-Baptiste Lully – Atys
99. Jules Massenet – Thais
100. Friederich von Flotow – Martha