>>52019717>>52019717ok, for introductory stuff, I mentioned my fav Richard Strauss. His most accessible opera is Der Rosenkavalier (honestly it's pretty much shoujo-esque, lmao). Elektra and Salome are also good choices, but much more avant garde and cacophonous. You also have the Magic Flute from Mozart in the German language. You also of course have the non-ring cycle Wagner stuff: The Flying Dutchman, Parsifal for example. Beethoven did compose his one opera, Fidelio, which has a woman saving her husband. You can also look into Meyerbeer's German opera after. If you like Brahms, he was always afraid of composing an opera bc he built the opera's significance up in his mind as the crown of a composer's career but was too picky and anxious to go ahead with making a proper one but he does have two song cycles which are like opera prototypes: the Magelone and Zigeunerlieder. I have a huge Dittersdorf bias as someone with a harp and will shill his Doctor and Apothecary as well. Telemann also has an Orpheus just like Dittersdorf and Monteverdi waaay before. Weber with Der Freischutz. If you like the lieder you can follow up with Hugo Wolf and Schubert too after. Look at this calendar!
