 | Ravel - L'enfant et les Sortilèges · Ma Mère l'Oye / LSO · Previn by Maurice Ravel
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.72 one delightful moment after another
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 | Jonathan Dove: Flight
Buy new: $31.98 / Used from: $58.30 Fresh new British minimalist voice
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 | Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress / Bostridge · York · Terfel · von Otter · Howells · LSO · Gardiner by Igor Stravinsky
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $8.79 Stravinsky brings Mozart into the 20th century
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 | The Jessye Norman Collection: Schoenberg: Erwartung / Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Buy used from: $18.00 Erwartung sent opera reeling in a new direction at the start of the last century
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 | Berg - Lulu / Stratas · Minton · Schwarz · Mazura · Riegel · Blankenheim · Tear · Pampuch · Boulez
Buy used from: $30.00 Not just one of the 20th century's greats, one of the greatest of them all
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 | Bolcom - A View from the Bridge / Josephson, Malfitano, Turay, Lyric Opera of Chicago, D. Russell Davies
Buy new: $35.98 / Used from: $17.37 Bolcom is one of America's great living composers. Songs of Innocense & Experience is a must also (but not an opera)
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 | Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1993 Recording) by Robert Wilson
Buy new: $43.98 / Used from: $30.90 Broke down many of the boundaries of what constitutes opera
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 | Nixon in China by John Adams
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $23.98 One of the first contemporary-American themed operas in the GRAND tradition
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 | Jackie O - The Opera by Michael Daugherty
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 | Pelléas et Mélisande / von Stade, Stilwell, van Dam, Raimondi, Karajan by Claude Debussy
Buy new: $34.98 / Used from: $18.97 There's never been anything like it, either before or since.
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 | X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
Buy used from: $16.00 Huge opera about an amazing figure
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 | Floyd: Susannah (complete opera) by Samuel Ramey
Buy used from: $13.99 One of the first American operas to make it into the standard repitoire.
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 | Mark-Anthony Turnage: Greek
Buy used from: $17.87 Another great compositional voice from the UK
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 | Adès - Powder Her Face / Gomez, V. Anderson, N. Morris, Bryson, Almeida Ensemble, Adès by Thomas Adès
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 | Elliot Carter: What Next?
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 | Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise / van Dam, Upshaw, Nagano by Olivier Messiaen
Buy new: $67.98 / Used from: $39.98 It's the only opera Messiaen gave us but WHAT an OPERA! Huge, transcendent, spiritual.
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 | Rosa: The Death of a Composer
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 | György Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Buy used from: $20.00 Wild, outlandish, over the top, and BRILLIANT
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 | Feldman: Neither by Morton Feldman
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 | Michael Berkeley: Baa Baa Black Sheep
Buy new: $39.98 / Used from: $21.29 Edgy, dramatic, from the very first note ot the last.
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 | Stockhausen: Samstag aus Licht by Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer & Conductor))
Buy used from: $65.00 I can't list all 7 of these (all have been finished, 5 recorded but only 2 are available in the US) this will probably end up being the biggest opera cycle of the 20th or 21st century
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 | Britten: Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.45 Again, I'm limiting myself to only one Britten opera. I picked this one because the orchestrations are some of his best I think
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| Atlas: An Opera in 3 Parts
Buy used from: $5.87 The voice replaces the orchestra in many of Monk's works and words fall by the wayside.
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 | Satyricon by Bruno Maderna
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| Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Die Soldaten, Opera in 4 Acts after Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Composer)
Buy used from: $35.43 This epic has it all, jazz, film, serialism, and about a dozen other things. Musical ecclecticism before there was such a thing
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