“Opera Reviews § Turandot”, Gwern2019-02-02 (literary criticism, opera, personal)⁠:

A compilation of opera reviews since 2019.

Fairy tale opera: a despotic Oriental princess chops off the heads of suitors if they cannot answer her riddle. A random prince happens to do so, sets her a counter-riddle, she fails, he tells her the answer, she falls in love with him for no reason, The End. Yeah, pretty dumb. Some amazing costumes and sets, though.

• Carmen
• Akhnaten
• Porgy and Bess
• The Ring Cycle
  • Die Walküre
  • Rheingold/Siegfried/Götterdämmerung
• Agrippina
• Manon
• Madama Butterfly
• Turandot
• Dialogues Des Carmélites
• The Magic Flute
• Wozzeck