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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Not such a good idea, after all

February 6, 2008 24:00
1 min read

Oh dear. This looks fun, I thought: [W]hat’s your birth opera? Or, in other words, which opera (and cast, if applicable) was the Met performing on the day you were born? (You get this information, of course, from the Met Archives Database.) I was hoping it would be Figaro, Don Giovanni, Rosenkavlier, Carmen or some Verdi. Something good, anyway.

It turns out to quite the most boring, overrated opera in the repertory (well, the second most boring, overrated opera - Pelleas is the run away winner of that accolade):

Metropolitan Opera House
December 18, 1964
LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN
Offenbach-Barbier/Carre