sovay: (PJ Harvey: crow)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2012-02-02 03:40 am (UTC)

Wow, I'd love to hear more about this - it could be the thing that gets me into opera at last.

My two favorite twentieth-century operas are Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium (1947) and Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (1945). I can tell you why I like them, if you think it will help.

(I can also tell you why I like more classical operas, but I assume you will have tried those already.)

Also, I doubt you're into 70s prog-jazz, but there's also the 23 minute song Hammill did as Van der Graaf Generator: "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". Superb, but best approached with caution.

I'm already attracted by the (even misspelled) band name . . .

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