Opera Classics: YouTube Listening Guide
Eleven celebrated arias and duets from Handel, Charpentier, Bellini, Bizet, Leoncavallo, Offenbach, Halévy, Wagner, Gluck, and Verdi.
1. “Son nata a lagrimar”
George Frideric Handel — Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Suggested performers: Nathalie Stutzmann and Philippe Jaroussky, with Orfeo 55.
2. “Depuis le jour”
Gustave Charpentier — Louise
Suggested performer: Renée Fleming, conducted by James Levine.
3. “Oh! quante volte”
Vincenzo Bellini — I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Suggested performer: Anna Netrebko, singing Giulietta's aria.
4. “En vain pour éviter”
Georges Bizet — Carmen
Suggested performer: Grace Bumbry, singing the Card Aria.
5. “Vesti la giubba”
Ruggero Leoncavallo — Pagliacci
Suggested performer: Luciano Pavarotti, singing Canio's lament.
6. “Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour” (Barcarolle)
Jacques Offenbach — Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Suggested performers: Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča.
7. “Mon doux seigneur et maître”
Fromental Halévy — La Juive
Eudoxie's aria.
8. “Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond”
Richard Wagner — Die Walküre
Siegmund's spring song. Suggested performer: Jonas Kaufmann.
9. “J'ai perdu mon Eurydice”
Christoph Willibald Gluck — Orphée et Eurydice
Suggested performer: Juan Diego Flórez, singing Orpheus's lament in French.
10. “Se Romeo t'uccise un figlio”
Vincenzo Bellini — I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Suggested performer: Elīna Garanča, singing Romeo's aria.
11. “Già nella notte densa”
Giuseppe Verdi — Otello
The Act I love duet between Otello and Desdemona.
