Five Favorite Opera Arias

[Florestan]

My list, in no particular order:

Bizet - Carmen: Habanera (L'amour est un oiseau rebelle)
Donizetti - Don Pasquale: Com'e gentil
Bellini - La sonnambula: Vi ravviso o luoghi ameni
Verdi - La traviata: Di Provenza il mar il suol
Puccini - Madama Butterfly: Un bel di vedremo

[ritter]

OK, I cannot narrow it to five, but here go five conspicuously (nay, criminally   ) absent from you list, Andrei:

- Dove sono i bei momenti ( Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Deh vieni, non tardar... (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (Don Giovanni)
- Il mio tesoro... (Don Giovanni)
- Un aura amorosa (Così fan tutte)

You're supposed to be one of the leading Mozartians here on GMG! Shame on you!   

My real list to follow soon, and it will surely include one or more of the above   

Un abrazo,

[Florestan]

OK, I cannot narrow it to five, but here go five conspicuously (nay, criminally   ) absent from you list, Andrei:

- Dove sono i bei momenti ( Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Deh vieni, non tardar... (Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (Don Giovanni)
- Il mio tesoro... (Don Giovanni)
- Un aura amorosa (Così fan tutte)

You're supposed to be one of the leading Mozartians here on GMG! Shame on you!   

My real list to follow soon, and it will surely include one or more of the above   

Un abrazo,

Well, with Mozart I had two options: to make the whole thing an all-Mozart affair, or to choose only one aria. The former I did not want to do and the second I could not do. So I left him aside altogether. He's in a league of his own anyway. 

Your list is superb.

[springrite]

Ha! Noch einen ganzen! (From Der Vampyr by Marchner)
À cette voix... Je crois entendre encore (Bizet - Les Pêcheurs de perles)
E lucevasn le stelle (Tosca)
Pace, pace, pace mio dio (La Forza del Destino)
Nessun dorma (Turandot)

Actually, the undisputed #1 for me is the final scene of Salome -- from the Dance of Seven Veils to the very end (if I may expand beyond the "aria", if it can be called an aria).

[VonStupp]

Menotti: 'The Black Swan' from The Medium
Bernstein: 'Glitter and Be Gay' from Candide
Puccini: 'Un bel di' from Madame Butterfly
Britten: 'We Live and Let Live' from Peter Grimes
Purcell: 'When I am Laid in Earth' from Dido and Aeneas

[Mirror Image]

Puccini: 'Un bel di' from Madame Butterfly

YES!!! Gorgeous beyond belief.

[Jo498]

Purcell/Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth (Dido)
Handel/Ariodante: Dopo notte (Ariodante)
Mozart/Don Giovanni: Madamina, il catalogo... (Leporello)
Beethoven/Fidelio: Gott, welch Dunkel hier - In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (Florestan)
Weber/Freischütz: Leise, leise, fromme Weise (Agathe)

[ritter]

Now, for my real list:

- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar... (Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Il mio tesoro... (Mozart, Don Giovanni)
- O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave...Vien, diletto (Bellini, I Puritani)
- Dal labbro un canto estasiato vola (Verdi, Falstaff)
- Ich komme, grünende Brüder... (Richard Strauss, Daphne)

[Florestan]

Now, for my real list:

- Giunse alfin il momento...Deh vieni, non tardar... (Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro)
- Il mio tesoro... (Mozart, Don Giovanni)
- O rendetemi la speme...Qui la voce sua soave...Vien, diletto (Bellini, I Puritani)
- Dal labbro un canto estasiato vola (Verdi, Falstaff)
- Ich komme, grünende Brüder... (Richard Strauss, Daphne)

Great list, Rafael.

But, but, but... You're supposed to be one of the leading Wagnerians here on GMG! Shame on you! 

[springrite]

Great list, Rafael.

But, but, but... You're supposed to be one of the leading Wagnerians here on GMG! Shame on you! 

You are making traitors of us all!!!

[Florestan]

You are making traitors of us all!!!

[ritter]

Great list, Rafael.

But, but, but... You're supposed to be one of the leading Wagnerians here on GMG! Shame on you! 

Wagner didn't write arias, he wrote monologues.   

He's hors concours... 

[springrite]

Wagner didn't write arias, he wrote monologues.   

He's hors concours...

"Arias are for wimps!" ---Wagner

[André]

D'amor sull'alli rosee from Il Trovatore
Je crois entendre encore from Les Pêcheurs de perles
Ô ma lyre immortelle from Gounod's Sapho
Entweihte Götter from Lohengrin
Ella giammai m'amo, from Don Carlos.

So many runners-up....

[Mirror Image]

Now, for my real list:

- Ich komme, grünende Brüder... (Richard Strauss, Daphne)

Lovely, Rafael. The more I listen to Daphne, the more I love it. I really feel it's becoming one of my favorite Strauss operas.

[Wanderer]

Oh, so many.

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Die Zauberflöte)
Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (Zaide)
Largo al factotum (Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione)
Ich ging zu ihm (Das Wunder der Heliane)
Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila)

OK, five more (sue me 😁):

Nessun dorma (Turandot)
Ah! perche non posso odiarti & Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (La sonnambula)
Numi, respiro... Ah, lo sento (Europa riconosciuta)
Agitata da due venti (Griselda)

Closing with two not-strictly-arias-but-who-cares:

Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Puskai pogibnu ya, no pryezhde (Eugene Onegin)