any recommendations for an opera newcomer?
 

Hello everyone! I would like to listen to opera (I've only listened to Purcell's Dido & Aeneas). Any recommendations for a nice start?

Wagner--The Valkyrie
Wagner--The Mastersinger of Nuremburg
Mozart--The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart--The Magic Flute
Rossini--William Tell
Rossini--The Barber of Seville
Johann Strauss II--The Bat
Verdi--Aida
Puccini--Madame Butterfly
Tchaikovsky--Eugene Onegin

Thanks a lot.

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