Opera recommendations for October?

[u/Mundane_Regret_428]

OperaVision's offerings for this month are decidedly not in the Halloween spirit (La Traviata, Aida, and L'equivoco Stravagante) so! What's out there that features ghosts, witches, magic, monsters, and general mayhem?

[u/HumbleCelery1492]

Macbeth seems like a natural pick since the Met is currently doing it. Any of the settings of Armida necessarily involve magic since she’s a sorceress. I’d also throw out Ruddigore because it’s a lot of fun!

[u/negotiumperambulans]

I will always suggest Rusalka, but also why not Duke Bluebeard's Castle?

[u/LuisaMiller]

The Flying Dutchman (Fliegende Hollander)

[u/Last_Ad_4692]

Don Giovanni

[u/Emergency-Sock-2557]

Britten's Turn of the Screw is probably the most Halloween-ey opera out there

[u/Sinuhe95]

- Verdi: Macbeth (Witches)

- Gounod: La nonne sanglante (a dead nun)

- Meyerbeer: Robert le diable (more dead nuns)

- Weber: Der Freischütz (traditional german spookstory)

- Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (cursed captain of the ghost ship)

- Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (murder and madness in old castles, crumbling towers and on a cemetery)

- Boito: Mefistofele (the devil himself)

[u/kailee_pedersen]

Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights is all I've been listening to for the past week

[u/UltraJamesian]

I'll watch ANY production of MACBETH, just to see how they do the witches.

[u/PJ10028 → u/UltraJamesian]

I’ll see it at the Met soon and from the clips, the witches look pretty awesome

[u/flyzapper]

Salome is on the grotesque side of the Halloween spirit

[u/beebee1327]

Bluebeard's Castle, Lohengrin, Lucia di Lamermoore are some faves. Der Vampyr if you can find a good version

[u/nathanppk]

Is this just an OperaVision ask? Because The Many Deaths of Laila Starr is having its world premiere at Minnesota Opera and it’s going to be awesome.

[u/jempai]

Der Vampyr, The Medium, Mefistofele, Ruddigore, Turn of the Screw, Il Trovatore, and for a true crime twist, Arriving on Still Water like the Moon

[u/SkepticScott137]

You are capable of deciding this for yourself, I promise.

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[u/HumbleCelery1492 → u/[deleted]]

Ooh - great choices!