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Ariodante is in despair and wants to die (Aria:Tu preparati a morire) but Lurcanio comes from the shadows and advises Ariodante to live, and seek revenge (Aria:Tu vivi). Ariodante sadly bewails his beloved's (supposed) infidelity (Aria:Scherza infida). As day breaks, Polinesso and Dalinda emerge from the palace.
The farewell aria of Sultan Bazajet in Handel's opera Tamerlano (note the da capo instruction). First edition, London, 1719. In music, an aria (/ ˈ ɑːr i ə /, Italian:; pl.: arie, Italian:; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta, Italian:; pl.: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment ...
Aria for soprano and orchestra: Metastasio, Artaserse I,2: 1770 119: 382h "Der Liebe himmlisches Gefühl" (Score/Crit. report) Aria for soprano and orchestra (piano reduction) This is possibly (Kunze) the aria for Gretl Marchand from K. deest: unknown: 1782 146: 317b "Kommet her, ihr frechen Sünder" Aria for soprano and strings: unknown ...
Dido and Aeneas, from a Roman fresco, Pompeian Third Style (10 BC – 45 AD), Pompeii, Italy. Before Dido and Aeneas, Purcell had composed music for several stage works, including nine pieces for Nathaniel Lee's Theodosius, or The Force of Love (1680) and eight songs for Thomas d'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment (1688).
Aida (or Aïda, Italian:) is a tragic opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni.Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.
Tamino plays his magic flute. Animals appear and dance, enraptured, to his music. Tamino hears Papageno's pipes sounding offstage, and hurries off to find him (aria: "Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton" / How strong is thy magic tone). Arrival of Sarastro on a chariot pulled by lions, from a 1793 production in Brno. Pamina appears at left ...
A concert aria is normally an aria or operatic scene (scena) composed for singer and orchestra, written specifically for performance in concert rather than as part of an opera. Concert arias have often been composed for particular singers, the composer always bearing that singer's voice and skill in mind when composing the work.
In Thaïs's famous Mirror Aria at the opening of act 2 there are some text changes, though this does not affect the music. In the 1898 revision, there is an extended ballet sequence in act 2 for Nicias' followers, including the little vocal intermezzo for La charmeuse. This replaced the 1894 ballet in the last act.