I don't remember anyone dissing opera when we had this wonderful thread about BEER'S NEPHEW singing on Canada's Got Talent.

Don, thanks for the links.

Here's one in English, The Ballad of Baby Doe, based on real people and events in Leadville, Colorado in the late 1880s. It is a delightful opera. Central City Opera put it on this summer. This recording and video is not the best, but you get the idea. The whole opera is available from that link. The LPs I have of it feature Beverly Sills as Baby Doe, recorded in the 50s.