Opera fans: post a favorite aria

[pokerfan]

Maria Callas singing Habanera from Carmen in Covent Garden 1962.

http://www.youtube.com/v/6fZRssq7UlM?fs=1

(Yes, I listened to the piano puzzler on NPR today.)

[pokerfan]

1. kick

It's not so much that I'm an opera fan, but that there are some performances that send shivers down my spine...

[Bucky]

2. soon to be ruined by the inevitable "post a favorite areola" copycat threads

[bif]

3. Der Rosenkavelier

The final trio. Breathtakingly beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VbmCqK7XOw

[pokerfan]

4. Awesome

Thanks. :hi:

[Tikki]

5. When I am laid in earth..Dido's lament.(Purcell)..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U
Dame Janet Baker




Tikki

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. Bizet. The Pearl Fishers duet

Beautiful men with beautiful voices get me every time!

Au fond du temple saint (At the back of the holy temple) from the Pearl Fishers by Bizet.

Tenor/baritone - Roberto Alagna and Bryn Terfel.

Both fishermen have a crush on a priestess, and talk about how lovely she is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tLrPVkfCIQ


Another version, English subtitles, with the fabulous Alfredo Kraus & McDaniel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZORqZv3odh8&feature=related

Alfredo Kraus does a wonderful version of "Estrellita" (little star) which you can find on Youtube.

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Don Giovanni duet, Don Giovanni trying to seduce Zerlina, La ci darem la mano.
"Honey let's go off in the bushes and do the wild thing".

Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Karita Mattila - I love the acting in this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UXhop4w4Lg


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Don Giovanni - Serenade - Deh vieni alla finestra - Samuel Ramey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-13t581Fzc

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The Magic Flute -- In these Hallowed Halls - Kurt Moll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffs4KdxkoBM&feature=related
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Edie Adams - Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme (Ernie Kovacs' wife):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWx7WayybA

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Franco Corelli, E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca. He was working the Thighmaster as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzb9uwfgD1w

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The great Franco Corelli, singing "Core 'Ngrato" (Ungrateful heart). Not an aria but a folk song. The emotion he puts in this song is stunning. Especially the pain in "Catari! Catari!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznTkZmBi8A&feature=related

[rabs]

7. Renata Tebaldi canta "La Wally"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdiUmFiVY4k&feature=related

[applegrove]

8. A friend and I were walking past Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris one day. We saw people

going indoors so we followed them. It was a free concert. We walked in just a someone was singing 'ave maria' on a high balcony. Wonderful thing that is.