Opera -- Starter Collection

Tyler has a great collection of tips for Opera lovers.

I'm looking forward to:

The Ingmar Bergman film of Magic Flute is perhaps the single most inspiring introduction to opera, even if they are singing in Swedish. It is cinematic in conception, rather than a mere film of a performance, thus avoiding the DVD problem.

Here's what he says on Wagner:

If you are putting on four discs of Flying Dutchman, Tannhaeuser, or Goetterdaemmerung, and hoping to make sense of it, your planning has gone badly wrong.