what would be the Gothiest Opera?

Lucia di Lammermoor.

They get plus points for adding atmosphere, though. And you can't dock them pretention points in a goth vampire masquerade.

You can when they refused to actually interact with anyone else, and hadn't given any thought to their character concept besides "stand around and whisper poetry while looking moody". From what I remember, that particular character got eaten by an NPC.

I want a Dracula opera. It's been a ballet!

Now we're talking, Kat.

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Charles of the Ritz "Paper White" pressed powder, Revlon "Blackberry" lipstick in the original formula, and Maybeline black liquid liner in the original formula.

Excellent. I'm going to need Ple and Raq to opine on this point as well.

Now if you want to talk vampire books, I'm here for you.

Let's hear it! Top 20 Vampire Books by Jilli!

I want a Dracula opera. It's been a ballet!

I might be holding out for a Suspiria opera.

Of course, we've already heard The Elephant Man musical.

Now we're talking, Kat.

I memorized that poem in 6th grade and I still remember most of it. Crazy.

I memorized that poem in 6th grade and I still remember most of it. Crazy.

I would pay a lot to see 6th grade Kat's dramatic reading captured on video.

I mean, one can always choose "The Second Coming" for Yeats - though it's a bit more dystopian than Goth, in my mind.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Bat Boy the Musical!

I was thinking more The Stolen Child or The Song of Wandering Aengus for Yeats.

Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand

Not Yeats, but Keats again - another candidate would be La Belle Dam Sans Merci.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!”

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.

Let's hear it! Top 20 Vampire Books by Jilli!

Let's see how many I can rattle off the top of my head! The vampire books I prefer, in no particular order:

Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Blood Opera Trilogy (Dark Dance, Personal Darkness, Darkness I), Tanith Lee
A Delicate Dependancy, Michael Talbot
Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice (yes, really. I just re-read it the other night)
Sunshine, Robin McKinley
Vampire City, Paul Féval
Vamped, David Sosnowski
Hotel Transylvania, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Vampire Kisses, Ellen Schreiber
Gothique, Kyle Marffin
Lost Souls, Poppy Z. Brite
Midnight Predator, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers
Those Who Hunt the Night (and Traveling With the Dead), Barbara Hambly
Sunglasses After Dark, Nancy A. Collins
Voice of the Blood, Jemiah Jefferson
Bloodsucking Fiends, Christopher Moore
A Morbid Initiation, Phillippe Boulle
Tourniquet: Tales from the Renegade City, Kim Lakin-Smith

(I cheated a bit. I looked at my LibraryThing account for some reminders.)

Excellent good list. Who else has read The Stress of Her Regard?