Calling All Opera Lovers: Give It Up for Love
Thank you to our BLO audiences who participated in our Opera Lovers Survey. Whether it’s the timeless classics or the groundbreaking new work, your choices reflect a true appreciation for the art form. Your tastes and deep love for opera are what makes our community so vibrant!
What was the first opera you ever saw?
One of the many good things about opera is that there are so many to choose from! The top three first-time operas for our BLO patrons are Carmen, La bohème, and Aida. The graphic above accounts only for operas that were mentioned more than once in responses to this question. In addition to the works above, respondents mentioned over 30 other titles, including Die Fledermaus, Così fan tutte, Eurydice, Proving Up, The Anonymous Lover, and Eugene Onegin.
What is your favorite opera?
There are some clear fan favorites among our opera lovers, including The Marriage of Figaro, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly! The graphic above accounts only for operas that were mentioned more than once in responses to this question. In addition to the works above, respondents mentioned over 30 other titles, including Dialogues of the Carmelites, Rusalka, Written on Skin, Werther, Treemonisha, Champion, Lulu, and Pélleas et Mélisande.
What’s one opera that you’ve never seen, but that you hope to see one day?
We love seeing hearing what our audiences would like to see! The graphic above accounts only for operas that were mentioned more than once in responses to this question. In addition to the works above, respondents mentioned over 55 other titles, including La rondine, The Turn of the Screw, La forza del destino, Dead Man Walking, Lucia di Lammermoor, Galileo Galilei, Tristan and Isolde, Don Carlos, and The Flowering Tree, as well as multiple requests for more contemporary operas and new works.
Why do YOU love opera?
