As I've grown throughout the many years of my life, I've liked a lot of music. Rock, classic rock, heavy metal, jazz, techno, piano and so on, but I've always had a thing for good ol' opera. However, aside from an old classmate from elementary school that I recently got back in touch with, I seem to be alone with this love. I seem to have inherited most of the family collection as far as CDs go. Simply put, I feel that if I go into opera with the right mind, and right moments to hear it, it can be very amazing and...while the word itself is becoming a bit cliche now.... epic! Surely I can't be the only one here who enjoys opera. So step up if you've a common love for it, and say a few words. =D
My all time favorite, at least for now has to go to Carl Maria von Webers' Der Freischütz. A very well balanced opera with plenty of different sounds to it's greatness, as well as a great, and even rather.... metal story if you either know German, or just read the lyrics translations.
I'm uncultured. Excerpts from particular operas are OK, the usual suspects, such as Carmen. Most of the time I don't know what opera a piece might have come from (e.g. Anvil Chorus, La Donna e Mobile, Nessun Dorma). And I can't hear Wagner without thinking "Kill the Wabbit!" 
DW
Opera is pretty good, I never saw/heard a whole one though
Opera music is cool, Rish got nothin' against it.
I don't mind an opera now and again - La Boheme, Madam Buttlerfly, Carmen... The main problem I have is finding anyone I know who'll sit through it with me without falling asleep.
I've found luck with 2 of my male friends who like driving around and listening to opera, but as far as going to see an opera out in LA or something goes, nobody wants to go with. Probably because it IS LA.
Either way, opera is an acquired taste. You either like it or you don't. I'm just at a point where I'm tired of hearing the same 5 over and over again and I need something new. Die Walküre appeals, but I've had one too many German operas as of late...
