120 Opera titles that never made it (the first 60)

Here's an article for the opera devotee (I'm going to publish this one in two parts, as it's so long).
Opera composers are busy people, but sometimes they don't get the title quite right the first time.

Here's a list of 120 opera titles that didn't make it past the dress-rehearsal:

Bizet: Vanmen

Bizet (again): Les pecheurs de prawns

Monteverdi: L'Incontinenzione di Poppea

Handel: Dynorodelinda

Handel: Semoline

Gluck: Inceste

Mozart: Mitridate, re di Pontypridd

Mozart: Il bartender di Siviglia

Mozart: Die Zauberbanjo

Beethoven: Infidelio

Spontini: La Vest (string)

Rossini: FakeTancredi

Donizetti: Spag Bolena

Bellini: Norman

Wagner: The Flying Dutchcap

Verdi: Limpelio

Verdi: Rigomorto

Verdi: Un balloon in maschera

Wagner: Der meistercrooner von Nurnberg

Wagner: Das Rheintanzanite

Wagner: Die Shufflekure

Verdi: FirstAida

Mussorgsky: Boris Reasonablunov

Strauss: Die Fledersquirrel

Wagner: Damntheguttering

Saint-Saens: Samsung and the Lilo (the perfect opera for the beach)

Verdi: Simon Boccaafricanamerican

Delibes: Shishme

Massanet: Personon

Strauss: The person of no fixed abode baron.

Tchaikovsky: The Queen of AfricanAmericans

Verdi: Realstaff

Rimsky-Korsakov: Happyko

Debussy: Pelleas and his smelly sandals

Verdi: Madama Slug

Lehar: The Smeary Window

Delius: The Village Romeo and Julian

Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-ginger

Richard Strauss: Powercutta

Wolf-Ferrari: Ill secretion di Susanna

Rossini: Il Turdo in Italia

Puccini: La Fan Chiller del West End (air-conditioned theatres)

Richard Strauss: Der Pansykavalier

Richard Strauss: Ariadne auf Neasden

Bartok: Bluebeard's End Terrace (with off-street parking)

Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Scheissen

Massanet: Donkey Shot

Gershwin: Porky and Butch

Menotti: The XXL

Britten: Bertie Sprat

Menotti: The iPhone

Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors and the Social Worker and the Registered List

Verdi: Inani

Tchaikowsky: YouGin? OneGin!

Bellini: I Impuritani

Krenek: Jonny Spielt Banjo

Janacek: Katya KabtoBrixton

Rossini: La Donner Del Lager

Poulenc: La Voix Grenouillante

Catalani: Where's Wally?

(continued in the next blog)

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