Impossible to answer as it is totally subjective and covers all types of operas - but it is usually accepted that the most popular operas are Carmen and La boheme.
When the opera called La Traviata was first performed in 1853, it was received by critics as a failure. After revamping the opera, it was later received as a success when it was performed in 1854.
ballad opera
18th century dramatic Opera
The stage version both London and Broadway both received a Olivier and Tony Award for Best sets and scenery in 1986 and 1988.The movie Phantom of the Opera 2004 was viewed as over visualized and used to distract the audience that their singers cannot act and sing accordingly to art and music critics. Some of the scenes especially the entering the Phantom's Lair, with hands coming out of the wall to hold torches seemed more for Halloween or something out of Dracula than Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Some critics criticized the cobwebs on every candelabra as being more Halloween than realistic. Some critics viewed the scenes all of them as immaculately gaudy.The Ball scene was also viewed from art and music critics as being overly black and white costumes with no colour in the gowns at all. Awhile the stage version the gowns are displayed in bright beautiful colours.
Bizet was a French opera composer, best known for Carmen. He was not a singer.
Film critics consider Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" to be the best movie of the decade.
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