No further operatic plans for 2016, so here is my tally for the year. The 'etc.' indicates that I have included not only concert performances but other borderline cases, including music theatre. Beat Furrer's 'sound theatre' piece, FAMA, arguably does not belong here at all, but never mind; I thought it would be good to include it. It seems we have a pretty clear winner for the year (always helped by a visit to Bayreuth). The Deutsche Oper's Strauss-Wochen helped Richard the Second share joint second place with Mozart. An especial delight for me is to see Gluck placed so high; more to the point, it has been a privilege to have heard four Gluck performances this year.
As in previous years, I have only allowed one score per composer per event, so Il trittico counts for one, but so does Il tabarro. In the case of Stephen Oliver's 'completion' of L'oca del Cairo, he shares the honours with Mozart.
Wagner 16
Mozart, Strauss 8
Puccini 5
Gluck, Janáček 4
Humperdinck, Tchaikovsky 2
Kim Ashton, Thomas
Adès, Thomas Arne, Gerald Barry, Beethoven, Berg, Bizet, Britten, Chabrier, Peter Maxwell Davies, Debussy,
Dvořák, Enescu, Beat Furrer, Handel, Hindemith, Mascagni, Stephen
McNeff, Stuart McRae, Martinů, Mussorgsky, Offenbach, Stephen Oliver, Purcell, Rameau,
Reimann, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Mark Simpson, Weill 1
Click here, for the sake of comparison, with results from 2013-2015.
Concerts and an overall tally will have to wait until the very end of the year.
