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.
43. La Navarraise (Jules Massenet)
Category: British opera
19. At the Boar’s Head & The Wandering Scholar (Gustav Holst)
A musical interlude based on Shakespeare's Henry IV.
