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120
Opera titles that never made it
By Jeremy Fisher
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Here's an article for the opera devotee. Opera composers are busy
people, but sometimes they don't get the title quite right the first
time.
Here's a list of 120 opera titles that didn't make it past the
dress-rehearsal:
Bizet: Vanmen
Bizet (again): Les pecheurs de prawns
Monteverdi: L'Incontinenzione di Poppea
Handel: Dynorodelinda
Handel: Semoline
Gluck: Inceste
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Pontypridd
Mozart: Il bartender di Siviglia
Mozart: Die Zauberbanjo
Beethoven: Infidelio
Spontini: La Vest (string)
Rossini: FakeTancredi
Donizetti: Spag Bolena
Bellini: Norman
Wagner: The Flying Dutchcap
Verdi: Limpelio
Verdi: Rigomorto
Verdi: Un balloon in maschera
Wagner: Der meistercrooner von Nurnberg
Wagner: Das Rheintanzanite
Wagner: Die Shufflekure
Verdi: FirstAida
Mussorgsky: Boris Reasonablunov
Strauss: Die Fledersquirrel
Wagner: Damntheguttering
Saint-Saens: Samsung and the Lilo (the perfect opera for the beach)
Verdi: Simon Boccaafricanamerican
Delibes: Shishme
Massanet: Personon
Strauss: The person of no fixed abode baron.
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of AfricanAmericans
Verdi: Realstaff
Rimsky-Korsakov: Happyko
Debussy: Pelleas and his smelly sandals
Verdi: Madama Slug
Lehar: The Smeary Window
Delius: The Village Romeo and Julian
Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-ginger
Richard Strauss: Powercutta
Wolf-Ferrari: Ill secretion di Susanna
Rossini: Il Turdo in Italia
Puccini: La Fan Chiller del West End (air-conditioned theatres)
Richard Strauss: Der Pansykavalier
Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Neasden
Bartok: Bluebeard's End Terrace (with off-street parking)
Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Scheissen
Massanet: Donkey Shot
Gershwin: Porky and Butch
Menotti: The XXL
Britten: Bertie Sprat
Menotti: The iPhone
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Social Worker and the
Registered List
Verdi: Inani
Tchaikowsky: YouGin? OneGin!
Bellini: I Impuritani
Krenek: Jonny Spielt Banjo
Janacek: Katya KabtoBrixton
Rossini: La Donner Del Lager
Poulenc: La Voix Grenouillante
Catalani: Where's Wally?
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Jeremy Fisher trains singers and performers to find and maintain
their best. He's the author of Successful Singing Auditions, and
creator of the Voicebox Videos - featured on the BBC and broadcast
to 44,000,000 people. He was commissioned by the DANA Centre at
London's Science Museum to create a video on singing with a camera
down his throat. Jeremy is fascinated by bringing technology and
innate skill together.
http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk
©
2009 Jeremy Fisher
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