Richard Todd wrote: >Vaughan Williams wrote a handful of operas. Shostakovich wrote two. >Schubert wrote a whole bunch, but they've never made it into the repertoire. >Weber wrote a couple of symphonies. Nielsen wrote at least two operas. >Haydn wrote some operas. Mozart, of course. I'm sure there are others. > >By the way, if you want to get your feet wet in Prokofiev operas, I'd >suggest that the Fiery Angel is his masterpiece in the genre. If you >look hard enough you can even find a good video production of it on a >now discontinued Philips VHS. I intended to respond to some of the posts in a single reply, quoting from various responses but that is proving too difficult and therefore I shall respond several times unless Dave decides to make a single post of my replies. Yes, I am aware of The Nose (never heard it). I do like Lady Macbeth which I have seen in Petr Weigl's DVD of it. I shall not say much on that right now. I am not a VW fan and I have heard some of the Schubert operas. To me they are not what Schubert was so profound and great at. Thank you for the Fiery Angel recommendation. I shall indeed follow that up. Much appreciated, Todd. Best, Yoel