Fish are jumpin and the opera is high
OperaSome responses to our Twitter trawl for pescatarian operas:
Salom(on)e
Tur&bot
Porgy and Bass
The Frying Dutchman
Twilight of the Cods
Madama Batterfry
Figaroe
Attilapia
The Eelixir of Love
The Exterminating Angelfish
Lucia di Lampreymoor
A Midsummer Night’s Bream
Toscarp
Tunadot
Loup-lu
Der Rheingoldfish
The Hake’s Progress
The Mackrelopoulos Affair
Tiddler on the Roof
Any more?
Così fan trote.
Too too many ….
Monteverdi’s Oarfish
Gluck Orfe e Eurydice
Henze’s The English Catfish
Strauss, Elektra’s Eel
Schubert’s Fierasfer
Rossini The Barbel of Seville
Britten’s Billfish Budd
Bizet’s Carpmen
Catalani, La Walleye
Le nozze di fishroe
Gotterdammerlungfish
The Magic Fluke
La Fillet du Régiment
L’Eelisir d’Amore
Brilly Rudd
Albert Herring!
Barbs in Toyland
The Pearlfish Fishers
L’ anguilla del West
L’ orata del Reno
Rusaltcod
The Rape of the Lox
Gianni Skipjack
The Ballad of Baby Dojo Loach
A Quiet Plaice
The Devil Ray and Kate
I can’t believe that nobody (so far) has mentioned Britten’s Albert Herring!!!
• The Love for Three Orange Roughies
• Caviaria Rusticana
• Saury Angelica
• Ide-omeneo
• Anchovy and Cleopatra
• Paul Grunion (early Britten)
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Dire lox des Carmelites….
Catch a Carpinovà
The Diary of one who Fishappeared…(ok, not strictly opera!)
Sharka (Jana-chaca).
The Battered Fried (Fried-rich Smetuna)
Pellébass et Melisangle
Leurre Espadon (M Rovella)
(excuse my french!)
The Fiery Angle (Surge Prokodiev)
War and Pesc
Il Piranha
The Book with Seven Coelacanth
Bluegill’s Castle
Die Floundermaus
Meyer Beer battered Barramundi
Der Rosen caviar leer.
Dama Picarel
Gar and Peace
Shrimpinone
The Golden Mackerel
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kingfish and the Maiden Fevroniya
La jolie fille de Perch