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I knew a box fighter who used "O fortuna" when coming into the ring. Actually, it was there I heard it first. Then I had to get the cd.

1. Billy Budd - if I'm not stopped, I tend to write pages about it. It's simply perfection to me. I can't stop love all three leads. And thank good, no divas, only men... in uniform. And it made me love tenors too. 2. Don Giovanni - want to be in his catalogue. And the music is just demonic. 3. Ring...

Overused (mostly in movies and advertising): - Bach's Toccata and Fugue d minor (when you hear ominous organ music, it's 90% this one) - Strauss' Zarathustra (it's great in Space Odyssey, but it's used in way too many parodies) - Beethoven's Für Elise (electronic ringbells - thank to that, now I'm s...

I couldn't pick one. For example, I love Mozart more than Bach, but that doesn't make Bach lesser - it's just personal preference. (And I still look at Bach like a God too...) In a novel the writer makes Puccini say: "Never compare geniuses. Only mediocrity has levels." So I'm simply grate...