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    If You Like Disney, Musicals, Or Shakespeare, You'll LOVE These Operatic Versions Of Your Favorite Tales

    And where you can see them live!

    1. If you liked The Little Mermaid, you'll love Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák.

    2. Miss out on finding your Romeo this Valentine's Day? Boy do we have an opera for you!

    Speaking of Shakespeare, we've got a few more of your favorite Shakespearean plays up our operatic sleeve, too.

    3. Like Handel's Giulio Cesare, the operatic version of Julius Caesar.

    4. And even Macbeth.

    5. We've got your favorite musicals covered. Like Rent, which is based on Puccini's La Bohème.

    6. And if you can't wait for Beauty and the Beast to hit movie theaters this March, check out Zémire et Azor by André Grétry, which was based on the same fairy tale.

    7. Speaking of Disney, we've got Cinderella not once, but TWICE. Check out Cendrillon by Jules Massenet and La Cenerentola by Rossini.

    8. Famous legendary figures like the libertine Don Juan are transformed in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

    9. And the legendary ghost ship The Flying Dutchman (featured in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean) is given musical life in Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer.

    10. Greek mythology gets real in Strauss's Elektra.

    We have novels and plays galore.

    11. Do you go wild for some good old Oscar Wilde? Then check out Salome by Richard Strauss.

    12. Britten transforms Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw into a dark chamber opera.

    13. Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath? How about Ricky Ian Gordon's eponymous opera?

    14. And remember that novel your French teacher mentioned, Manon Lascaut? It's an opera.

    15. As is Carmen by Prosper Merimé (but you've probably already heard of that one!).

    So, whether you're a seasoned opera lover or someone who still thinks that all opera singers dress like this:

    Check out these operas and see your favorite stories come to life in one of the grandest, most awe-inspiring, beautiful art forms of them all.