Baseball Cards
Putting off the aforementioned clerical work, I thought I’d compile a show-off list of operas of which I have more than three recordings. The figures in parenthesis represent independent DVDs productions.
Mozart
  Le Nozze di Figaro – 5 (2)
  Don Giovanni – 5 (1)
  Così fan tutte – 11 (1)
Wagner
  Tannhaüser – 3
  Lohengrin – 5 (1)
  Tristan und Isolde – 4 (1)
  Parsifal – 3 (1)
Verdi
  Un ballo in maschera – 5
  Don Carlo – 5 (1)
  Aida – 5 (1)
  Otello – 5 (1)
Strauss:
  Der Rosenkavalier – 4 (2)
  Ariadne auf Naxos – 3
  Die Frau ohne Schatten – 3
  Capriccio – 3.
Puccini
  Turandot – 3 (2)
I’m shocked that Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg doesn’t make this list. (I did give a recording away.) I’m totally not surprised that I have oodles more of Così than anything else.
I love each of these operas. There’s only one less-than-canonical work (Capriccio). I couldn’t possibly be more bourgeois.Â