We summed up famous operas using the hashtag #ExplainAnOperaPlotBadly

31 January 2019, 17:21 | Updated: 31 January 2019, 17:43

Can you #ExplainAnOperaPlotBadly? The great works of Puccini, Rossini, Verdi and Mozart: reduced to silly one-line tweets. You’re welcome.

A night at the opera can be emotional, inspiring and even downright confusing.

Hours of complex music and stories often take a lot of explaining. But why have a three-page synopsis when you can summarise an opera plot in one sentence?

Introducing the hashtag #ExplainAnOperaPlotBadly...

1. The Barber of Seville – Rossini

   

2. La Bohème – Puccini

   

3. Don Giovanni – Mozart

   

4. Falstaff – Verdi

   

5. Faust – Gounod

   

6. Fidelio – Beethoven

   

7. Hansel and Gretel – Humperdinck

   

8. A Midsummer Night's Dream – Britten

   

9. Ring Cycle – Wagner

   

10. Salome – Strauss

    

11. The Magic Flute – Mozart

    

12. Turandot – Puccini