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What is your favorite opera aria?
I have recently been very touched by Offenbach "The tales of Hoffmann" and in particular this piece
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Vesti la giubba, I first heard this during the Sean Connery death scene in the Untouchables movie.
My favorite aria from my favorite opera. Especially when performed by Birgit Nilsson. Or Kirsten Flagstad.
My favorite is "Se pieta di me non senti" from Händel's Giulio Cesare
Lascia Ch'io Pianga from the movie Farinelli
Thank you for starting this thread.
Most of my knowledge of opera comes from Bugs Bunny, I must confess. But this from "La Wally" — again, via pop culture, from the new-wave movie "Diva" — is really moving.
Also opera's best bass riff:
We can't leave out the Queen of Night's aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute. I looked around for a good YouTube version. I settled on this clip from the movie Amadeus, because I like the supposed origin story that's included in the excerpt.
Movie Grave of the Fireflies and Home, Sweet Home
How are you embedding your YouTube videos so that there's a visual link?
You don't have to do anything just copy/paste the Youtube link
Thanks. That worked. I was using the link URL command, rather than just pasting it in.
Great performance of Habanera from Carmen...
This always cheers me up
Brilliant thread. Please keep educating me. Especially with heartbreakers as opposed to rug munchers etc.
uhhh...
The peerless Janet Baker.
Peerless apart from Emma Kirkby. (Skip to 47" for the commencement of total bodily dissolution.) But yes, I nearly posted that version instead of Jessye above.
The commendatore scene
in Mozart’s Don Giovanni
is still one of my favorite
The Flower Duet widely used in tv ads
I used to go to the opera a lot when I worked in London. Much as I love the standard repertoire, I much preferred new stuff. I remember going to see Nigel Osborne’s The Electrification of the Soviet Union at the South Bank; at the interval I met a fellow opera fan who was bubbling with excitement. « I haven’t a clue what’s going on in this, » he said, « but it’s fantastic! » That’s my view on opera, really. The new stuff. It doesn’t have to end with Puccini.
I could boot British Airways for ruining this tune
I suspect there's an alternate usage that is lost on us at the moment!
Sorry. Just asked the Missus. She suggests rug muncher might be otherwise (at least according to her liberal arts college upbringing in Maine etc etc). For me it's a scenery/furniture chewer a la Pacino in full flood and in the context of Opera wherein the scenery is largely over-sized and liable to be full of Valkyries I was simply trying to indicate my preference for winsome misery where at all possible etc.
Hahaha! Rug muncher at Bates College definitely means something different that what I assumed you had in mind!
“Les pêcheurs de perles” from Bizet. He was 23 y.o when he compose this. The interpretation from Alfredo Kraus is great.
Awwww...beat me to it!! ^