Puccini's Gianni Schicchi is perfect for beginners. Short (1 act) and funny.

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A pretty ideal list I think. You do mention that Magic Flute has dialogue which can be easier for people new to opera--but many productions of Carmen do as well (in fact I've seen it live more often with the original spoken dialogue than the recitative added after Bizet)--Sondheim himself, who seemed to have a weird love/hate relationship with opera, called Carmen a "song opera" that plays a lot like modern musicals in its original version (his personal favourite Porgy and Bess, another good introduction to opera although perhaps a bit controversial, also fits that category despite originally having recitative that in various productions has been changed to dialogue.)

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Great Video! Thank you! Could it be argued that the parallel organum, although presented here as polyphonic, could be interpreted as homophonic since the voices appear to move not independently from each other? Asking for a friend who is about to take praxis II music content knowledge ; ) Thanks again for a great video and channel!

When I think classical music, I think Baywatch.

Check out Howells' Sonatina for piano , a product of his later years. It has some amazingly lively counterpoint in its outer movements, and a moody Sarabande, one of his favourite forms, as a second movement.

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Bringing leftist political garage into this subject...nice 🙄

Another choral/organ composer, a contemporary of HH was German composer Hugo Distler.

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4:04 its either star wars or symphony no 5 are my first htoughts

good first choices for beginners

You had me at "villain"

Super accurate and quick description of church history. It provides essential context for most pre-Renaissance music.

Smetana's Bartered Bride could be added to the list. Recently this was performed in Munich in German translation as a high speed comedy and the audience was enthusiastic.

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Wow the very last part (whom the music is for) was very well stated. I'll know how to tell my non-musical friends now!

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cool video, thank you! One thought: Homophonic I would call Polyhonic but homorhythmical...

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Where should I sit? I heard it in the middle or balcony. The tickets show from the stage: Orchestra Pit, Orchestra, Orchestra Terrace, Orchestra Rear, Rear Floor, Loge, Mezzanine, or Balcony. Please help lol

Love your tribute to Alex. :)

What an incredibly interesting video. I’m so fascinated by this history

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I know it's not really an opera, but my first experience was Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) as a kid, and I loved it, and kept singing songs from it. I think it can be a good idea to move gradually from musicals through singspiel to opera. After that it was la Traviata with Andrea Rost, and it was beautiful, but I think I needed the gradual introduction. I haven't seen Carmen as a real opera yet, but turned into a skating film, Carmen On Ice with Katarina Witt, Brian Boitano and Brian Orser (world champions, Olympic champions and silver medalist), three of the greatest skaters of their time). It was a passionate performance and brought the music closer to me, as it was connected to my favourite sport.

I copied the url for my class to watch! This period is one of my favorite periods!

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Fans of this music might also enjoy Meredith Monk's "Dolmen Music" (1980).

This music had a significant influence on the music of Steve Reich. Apparently he listed his choices for the five greatest composers as 1) Pérotin, 2) Bach, 3) Stravinsky, 4) Bartók, and 5) John Coltrane.

Where are all the "ars nova" jokes? 😀

I saw both Barber of Seville and Zauberflote as my first operas and they were poorly done and I did NOT enjoy them, though I do now. The opera that got me hooked was a student production, with no sets at all, of Don Giovanni. I think was the heightened emotion of all the characters that drew me in; whereas the comedy of Barber of Seville didn't attract me and the oddball plot of Zauberflote didn't interest me either.

Came to learn about classical concert going and politics pops up. Very disappointed!

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I always tell people to start with the operas Mozart wrote with Lorenzo da Ponte--Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte. Should dispel the notion that Wagnerian screaming is all there is to opera.

The effect is even better if the major thirds above the root are tuned purely (i.e., to around 386 cents) rather than as 400-cent 12-tone equal tempered "piano thirds," with their jarring beats.

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Tchaikovsky was a musical and melodic genius. His attempt to hide his sexuality led him into deep depression and concern for himself. He doubted his own talents despite the evidence otherwise. His Sixth Symphony perfectly represents his torment and depression. Nevertheless his music lives on. I wish he had been born in a more enlightened age. He should have had a happy creative life with a loved partner. I’m straight, but I love the man and his music dearly.

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The first and fourth opera got my attention love the voices but the others just seemed pretty awful at least to me but of course we've all heard the fifth opera especially if you grew up watching tom and Jerry and yes I did find it funny but not interesting

Great learning

You are mispronouncing "epochs." If you're going to make videos, make sure you are literate.

Thank you for the educational video

I tred to predict what your recommendations would be and came swiftly unstuck! I had ‘Figaro’ rather than ‘Zauberflöte’ (which is let down by acres of spoken dialogue, especially once the trials get underway), ‘La Bohème’, ‘La traviata’ and ‘Flying Dutchman’ (reasoning that if you have Verdi, you have to keep the Wagner faction happy) and, so it’s not all pre-20th century and to show opera isn’t all romance, ‘The turn of the screw’.