Your favourite aria

[Michel]

So what is it/are they?

Mine is almost certainly:

E lucevan le stelle.

[hornteacher]

"Non piu andrai" or "Se vuol ballare" from Marriage of Figaro

"Song to the Moon" from Rusalka

[wagnernn]

In questa reggia
Donde lieta usci
Sempre libera
O mio babbino caro
Ave maria
Deh vieni alla finestra
Song to the moon
Son vergin vezzosa
Il dolce suono

[bhodges]

Korngold: "Marietta's Lied" from Die Tote Stadt
Berg: "Lied der Lulu" from Lulu

--Bruce

[knight66]

Es gibt ein Reich from Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. I like the way the voice is made to fly, with power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ7tl6uHol8

Jessye Norman,

Enjoy

Mike

[bhodges]

Es gibt ein Reich from Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos. I like the way the voice is made to fly, with power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ7tl6uHol8

Jessye Norman,

Enjoy

Mike

What a beautiful way to end the day!  Listening to it now...thank you so much. 

--Bruce

[Drasko]

Dal mio Permesso amato sung by Maria Cristina Kiehr as La Musica in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

here it is (10.7 MB @ 256 kbps)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ey23tyxnb92

[Mozart]

my 1 favorite aria? goshh probably voi che sapete from figaro.

[Tsaraslondon]

Probably a toss up between Ah non credea from La Sonnambula and Qui la voice from I Puritani (both as sung by Callas).

Then again, there's Adieu, fiere cite, or the haunting Vallon sonore, both from Les Troyens

And that, of course, makes me think of Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas.

Then, of course, I think of Verdi and a whole host of possibilities present themselves. No, it's far too difficult.

[BachQ]

So what is it?

...... not sure of the name ........ But I know it was written by Brahms ........

[Anne]

.....not sure of the name......but it was sung by Pavarotti.....I'm positive of that

[Lilas Pastia]

Je crois entendre encore from Bizet's Pearlfishers
E la solita storia from Cilea's L'Arlesiana
D'Amor sull'alli rosee, Verdi's Il Trovatore
D'Amour, l'ardente flamme, Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust
J'ai perdu mon Eurydice from Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice (the French version, not the Italian one)
O Malheureuse Iphigénie, Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck


there are so many...

[matti]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B0yNVKiKPUA

[Mozart]

Je crois entendre encore from Bizet's Pearlfishers
E la solita storia from Cilea's L'Arlesiana
D'Amor sull'alli rosee, Verdi's Il Trovatore
D'Amour, l'ardente flamme, Berlioz' La Damnation de Faust
J'ai perdu mon Eurydice from Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice (the French version, not the Italian one)
O Malheureuse Iphigénie, Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck


there are so many...

ughh nvm...

[max]

So what is it/are they?

Mine is almost certainly:

E lucevan le stelle.

...that's like asking, what's your favorite Black Hole in the known universe...which suck in all your emotions. Impossible to answer but E lucevan le stelle is definitly a top contender in my book.  .

But if operetta qualifies it would be the Wolgalied from Der Zarewitsch by Lehár...Es steht ein soldat am Wolgastrand. But I'm lying it's merely one of the top 50 or is it one of the top 20. It depends on the mood! Another also by Lehár is 'Freunde Das Leben ist Lebenswert from Giuditta und Mädchen, mein Mädchen, from Friederike.

Last, not least, and very likely FIRST Das Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde and then there's Mozart. What can one say, SUPERMAN is the only word that comes to mind. Nothing seemed to be beyond him!

Gluck is also truly sublime. The recording by Janet Baker of Gluck arias was a revelation which happened years ago. It still is every time I listen to it!

[Lady Chatterley]

Spoza son desprezata,Vivaldi.

[max]

Spoza son desprezata,Vivaldi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr3WNaMJMA8

[Mozart]

Spoza son desprezata,Vivaldi.

Really? That aria has always eluded me, it even bores me. Maybe I need to know the words to enjoy it. Or maybe I just like Vivaldi's rage arias. Someone should put out a cd called rage arias. It would be great driving music.

[max]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jRkp6Ucho

[Tsaraslondon]

Korngold: "Marietta's Lied" from Die Tote Stadt
Berg: "Lied der Lulu" from Lulu

--Bruce

Though often sung as a solo piece, the Korngold is, strictly speaking, a duet. I also love it, especially as sung by Schwarzkopf in a radio broadcast from the 1950s