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Summer Notice

I hoped to be ready to give you more opera this summer, but apparently the internship i’ll be at (on ‘campus’ for 2 months) will have little internet, and should only be used for e-mail and a little bit of internet.  they warned us to stay away from youtube and any streaming sites.  I will still be trying to give you all opera wonderfulness.  (i might try to build a queue in the few days i have before heading to the internship.)

But please send in your favorites, or any new discoveries, or any person or aria or composer that you absolutely love.  send in your videos, or links.  I know I would like to know what you love to listen to, and i’m sure the rest of the community here would love it too.  

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once again, here is the lovely Flicka, Frederica von Stade, singing the aria Enfin, je suis ici from Massenet’s Cendrillon

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countertenor Artur Stefanowicz sings the aria Mi vedrai con lieta fronte from Vivaldi’s Tigrane.

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Tenor Paul Groves sings Nadir’s aria Je crois entendre encore from Bizet’s Les Pecheurs de Perles

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bass Boris Christoff sings Mephistopholes’ aria, Le veau d’or, from Gounod’s Faust.

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the singer is unknown, but this is the only professional recording i can find of this gorgeous aria.  this is from Handel’s oratorio Jephtha, and in this aria Iphis is accepting her fate as a sacrifice by her father’s hand.  this is Ye Sacred Priests / Farewell, Ye Limpid Springs.


(it starts at 7:10)

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soprano Hildegarde Heichele sing’s Adele’s aria Mein Herr Marquis, also known as the laughing song, from Strauss’s opera, Die Fledermaus

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bass-baritone Nicolas Legoux sings the aria La Vendette from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro

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the wonderful soprano Lilly Pons sings the amazing Bell Song from Delibes’ opera, Lakme

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mezzo Ketevan Kemoklidze sings Stephano’s aria in Gounod’s Roméo et Juiliette, Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle?