@hakimasaid Haha!!! Funny, but surprisingly, Puccini, who composed Madam Butterfly was born in 1858, and while Verdi was born somewhat earlier, even he doesn’t meet your 250 year measure. Some operas are relatively more contemporary than one might think.
Yeah, it was a joke. Thus the emoticon.
I'm glad that you got it.
Having said that, I do love the works of: Gilbert and Sullivan; Lerner and Loewe and, of course Rogers and Hammerstein.
If you've never seen the biopic flick about Gilbert and Sullivan called "Topsy-Turvy" (1999)... it's well worth watching.
@wolfe63said If you've never seen the biopic flick about Gilbert and Sullivan called "Topsy-Turvy" (1999)... it's well worth watching.
One of my all time favourite movies and a touchstone for my WIP "Debussy's Slippers" about the fateful meeting of George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel in 1928!
For my part, it is the former, so much so that I decided I don’t get enough and I invested in a subscription to The Met on Demand app through my FireStick.
I was introduced to full-length opera over 30 years ago when my first husband’s best friend offered tickets to the Utah Opera production of Turandot, in which h ...[text shortened]... iant, as is Sir Bryn.