Hi all,

First let me say how much I enjoyed reading your various scenarios, Celia.
What a hoot! Gave me a much needed laugh after a difficult week. <g> We all
know that DFD would never have allowed himself to be controlled in this manner,
but it is fun to speculate.

My list of the 6 operas is the same as yours, Celia, with one exception. I
also came up with:

Almaviva (Mozart)
Mandryka (Strauss)
Amfortas (Wagner)
Falstaff (Verdi)
Barak (Strauss)

My one addition not on your list is Wolfram in Tannhäuser.

Concerning your list of 20th century operas...if he had only performed those
roles he wouldn't have been singing much opera as the productions of those
operas would have been few and far between. However, that would have also
meant that he would have been singing more Lieder. A good thing?

Thanks again for this fun exercise.


Karen



In a message dated 7/3/2008 8:52:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sgroi@... writes:


I have racked my brains to come up with 6 roles that DFD could have
sung convincingly over a long period of time that would not have
plunged him into absolute boredom and despair after two years.
Confining myself to only the roles he actually sang on stage, I came
up with the following:

Count Almaviva (Mozart)
Don Alfonso (Mozart)
Mandryka (R. Strauss)
Barak (R. Strauss)
Falstaff (Verdi)
Amfortas (Wagner)







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