Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The aria: L’ho perduta, me meschina (I lost it, poor me) opens the act IV.
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (also known as the Catalogue Aria) is a bass catalogue aria from Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, and is one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous and popular arias.
Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Hell’s vengeance boils in my heart), is the second aria sung by the Queen of the Night, a soprano coloratura part, in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte).
Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour (Beautiful night, oh night of love) often referred to as the Barcarolle is a piece opening Offenbach’s final opera third act set in Venice, The Tales of Hoffmann.
Lascia ch’io pianga, originally Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, is an Italian-language soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel that has become a popular concert piece. Its melody is …
Unbelievable… Listening Cecilia Bartoli singing Gelido in Ogni Vena must be on your 10 Things To Do Before You Die list… Farnace, with music by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), …
