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120 Opera titles that never made it
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By Jeremy Fisher

 

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Here's a list of 120 opera titles that didn't make it past the dress-rehearsal (continued):

 

Donizetti: Excretia Bogia

Wagner: Parsimonious

Bellini: Poliutio (a murky tale)

Richard Strauss: Salame

Rossini: Fullyramide

Walton: Sir John in Hove

Puccini: Candied Angelica

Sondheim: Onis Todd

Handel: Tamburino

Nyman: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hag

 

Shostakovich: Snot

Stravinsky: The moving ho(e)

Britten: The Turn of the IKEA fitment

Mozart: Cozzie, fan, tutu (an opera about ballet)

Weber: Der Freiup

Verdi: I LombardDirecti (the loan arranger)

Verdi (really, it's too easy): Windy Miller

Mozart: Le Nose di Figaro (It's in for a long run)

Verdi: The Hilton Otello (a place to lay your head)

Verdi: The Sicilian Vespa (fast, economical and stylish)

 

Weill: The Rise and Fall of the City of MDF

Berlioz: Beatrice et Benedictine (the sorry tale of a love that tippled over into addiction)

Hindemith: Cardillac Arrest

Rossini: La Cenebuytoletola (following the demise of the rental market)

Britten: Deaf in Venice

Meyerbeer: What's that din (or Pardon My French)

Busoni: Trainee Nurse Faust (the doktor will be along shortly)

Prokofiev: The Duennythingforcash

Stravinsky: The Fire extinguisher Bird (Health and Safety)

Thomas: Cheese and Ham Omelet

 

Humperdinck: Hans Werner Henze und Gretel

Weill: Miserable End

Weill: The Seven Deadly Singers

Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs For A Mad Baritone

Ravel: Quinze minutes Espagnole (at time and a half)

Mozart: The UnimpressAria

Lalo: Le Roi D'Yfronts

Rimsky-Korsakov: KönigskinderSurprise (there's a hidden toy inside each one)

Reimann: Leer (a king with a roving eye)

Donizetti: Lendus di Chamouleather

 

Wagner: Longandgrim

Verdi: The Scottish Widow Play

Poulenc: Les Mammals de Tiresias (coming soon on ZooTV)

Donizetti: Maria's Too Hard (the stirring tale of a prizewinning Scottish female boxer)

Rossini: Mose is an Eedjit (a great tenor role)

Bellini: Abnorma (the subject of a Channel Five documentary)

Britten: Noye's Incontinence

Monteverdi: Orfullo

Dvorak: Rusalkaselzer

Wagner: Siegincarcerated

 

Richard Strauss: The Talking Woman (well, the Silent Woman is mythological...)

Walton: Sir John in't Loo

Bellini: Il Piranha (starring Marina Callous)

Massenet: Silk Thaiis

Puccini: Tosser

Verdi: La Travelscrabble

Wagner: Tristan and 'is older sister

Berg: Catsick

Sullivan: HMRC Pinafore (investigation pending)

and finally

Puccini: PerDiem (Touring Dough)
 


 

Jeremy Fisher trains singers and performers to find and maintain their best. He's the author of Successful Singing Auditions, and creator of the Voicebox Videos - featured on the BBC and broadcast to 44,000,000 people. He was commissioned by the DANA Centre at London's Science Museum to create a video on singing with a camera down his throat. Jeremy is fascinated by bringing technology and innate skill together. http://www.vocalprocess.co.uk

 

© 2009 Jeremy Fisher

 

 
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