Die Zauberflöte is my favorite. But in your shoes, I would go see La Fanciulla del West, because it's so rarely performed.
I had my Opera "awakening" when I was 17 (in 1987). All of the AFS kids left our host families for two weeks and went to Berlin together, and our organization to us to the Berlin Oper. We saw Madame Butterfly. Sung in Italian, German supertitles. I was sitting between friends from Czechoslovakia and Japan. The Japanese girl was very softly singing along!
I've loved opera ever since. Now I go whenever I can, even if all I can afford are the cheap-assed $10, last row of the balcony seats.
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I had my Opera "awakening" when I was 17 (in 1987). All of the AFS kids left our host families for two weeks and went to Berlin together, and our organization to us to the Berlin Oper. We saw Madame Butterfly. Sung in Italian, German supertitles. I was sitting between friends from Czechoslovakia and Japan. The Japanese girl was very softly singing along!
I've loved opera ever since. Now I go whenever I can, even if all I can afford are the cheap-assed $10, last row of the balcony seats.