So this thread is up again.   I'm not an opera buff , in general ,but quite a few of the overtures --and even more choruses--are just sublime.   OK, I'm not an unbiased observer, having been in orchestras which played many overtures and in choruses which have done opera choruses.

At least twice we did an opera chorus concert.   Sold out the Kennedy Center concert hall.   And great fun--among other things, like the soloists, the chorus has to assume roles through the music.    I'm pushing to do another one.



One more thing:   there are allegations, fine, but no proof, that Schubert was a pedopohile.

Fascinating the way some folks like to lynch people in the Mudcat Kangaroo Court.