"The opera must make people weep, shudder, die through singing."
45. I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
Category: 19th century opera
44. Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung / The Taming of the Shrew (Hermann Goetz)
George Bernard Shaw thought it was "the greatest comic opera of the century, except Die Meistersinger".
43. La Navarraise (Jules Massenet)
La Navarraise is like a super-concentrated essence of opera; it lasts barely 40 minutes, but runs the gamut of emotions, has a great role for a soprano, and ends on a devastating curtain.
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