Iskender Savasir wrote:

>Listening to Prokofiev's 3rd symphony together with The Flaming Angel is a
>very instructive musical experience. Highly recommend it. IMHO opinion War
>and Peace is probably the poorest attempt at opera by Prokofiev.

Very appreciated, Iskender, again.  Now Karl always simply exhausts
me:-).  I don't have time in two lifetimes to sample all the composers
he comes up with.  Thanks to Dave for the Prokoffiev review link Much
thanks to John (John J Kregarman) for a review link.

>Rick Mabry suggests:
>
>>Or the Gergiev/Kirov Opera DVD from Arthaus Musik:
>
>This doesn't appear to be available in region 1 NTSC format.

Happily not a problem for me as I have an all region Pal-NTSC player.
Thanks to everyone.  Obviously Haydn wrote a lot of operas, less than
the number of his symphonies.  I have not heard one and I guess that
J.C. Bach wrote operas and symphonies as well.  He is not my 2nd or
third favorite Bach however.  Best wishes,

Yoel