Post your favourite Operas and Arias.

[GavDav]

I've never really listened to or taken much notice of opera music in the past as I've always viewed it as being a bit 'high brow'. But I've just stumbled across this here:

Maria Callas - Casta Diva (Norma-Bellini)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZrao_GX4nk

I've just been completley blown away by this woman's voice, especially the high notes. I literally had a shiver down my spine listening to this and now feel the need to be a little more educated in this area of music!

So Ph'ers post your favourites up

[kiteless]

O Soave Fanciulla

(La Boheme): Alagna & Georgiou is a good

Softly Awakes My Heart

(Samson & Delilah): MUST be a tenor / mezzo duet for best effect

[Blue Meanie]

I always liked Caruso, sung by the fat Italian Goalkeeper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8A61eY1Efg

[Meeja]

I put this on another thread the other day, but it definately fits squarely into this one!

Largo al Factotum

Not an Aria, but an Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Act 3 of Nabucco

[Baby Huey]

I don't know my arias from my elbow.

[ZR1cliff]

Not so much opera but one of my favourite classical tracks from a Bocelli CD I play in the car.

Andrea Bocelli - Romanza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z51s-gXn49A

[PaulHogan]

Favourite aria: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from La Wally

Favourite opera: Mozarts' Le nozze di Figaro

[Cooky]

Maria Callas - La Mamma Morte from Umberto Giordano's "Andrea Chénier"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7kPHMpuLxc&fea...

quite simply beautiful

[TedMaul]

PaulHogan said:

Favourite opera: Mozarts' Le nozze di Figaro

I like the Die Zauberflöte, but only because it is pivotal in the second best episode of Morse.... Great Opera but poor reason for liking it!

[GavDav]

Some beautiful clips there, I especially liked Thomas Hampson doing the Barber of seville. Keep them coming everyone!!

[TheEnd]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJc7_au_Jg

Eliza's Aria?

[The Lukas]

American Idiot is my favourite

[rsv gone!]

"Der Hölle Rache" from "Die Zauberflöte"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02yf6RHIQjQ

Jump to 0:55 for some amazing voice control

Edited by rsv gone! on Friday 22 January 20:43

[beano500]

I know it's a bit down-market for some, but Carmen is head and shoulders my favourite opera. I just love the whole sensuous experience of the french take on spanish life.

Having said that, the two operatic duets that crack me up every time are The Pearl Fishers: "Au Fond du Temple Saint" and Lakme: "Viens, Mallika..."

[Blue160]

Peter Grimes

No particular arias stick out, but the sea interludes are fantastic.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Peter Grimes is amazing. Paul Bunyan also by Britten is underrated IMHO.

Pretty much anything by Mozart but Magic Flute / Figaro / Don Giovanni in particular.

Not a big Verdi fan but his two last operas are great - Falstaff and Otello.

Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier

Wagner - Der Ring Nibelungen (if you have a week or so of your life to spare! Did go and see the whole thing once - probably one of the few times in your life you can genuinely use the word "epic"!)

[kiteless]

Blue160 said:

Peter Grimes

No particular arias stick out, but the sea interludes are fantastic.

On a different note (see what I did there), Donizetti's Pour Mon Ame is - for me - not especially great, but by fvck it gives the tenor's voice a workout! See Juan Diego Florez here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgqpQKEXtYQ&fea...

[Fallon]

Hello, I've resurrected this thread for a recommendation for, in your opinion, the best recording of Don Giovanni.

[Gaspode]

Not a clue on the Don Giovanni, but on the original topic I've always been rather partial to the Love Duet from Lucia de Lammermoor.

[y282]

wagner, the ring. all of it.

tbh all wagner, a LOT of italian stuff too. i blame chuck jones you know.