Champagne Chorus
Champagne Chorus
At Prince Orlofsky’s New Year’s Eve ball, all everyone wants is more champagne!
Champagne Chorus
At Prince Orlofsky’s New Year’s Eve ball, all everyone wants is more champagne!
Au fond du temple saint…
In the depths of the holy temple…
Envisioning their perfect women, two old friends weave a spellbinding ode to beauty and brotherhood.
Prologue I Pagliacci
Prologue – The Clowns
Although using the conventions, of Commedia dell’arte, the opera presents a real life tragedy of a jealous and broken man.
Title
Translation
Description
Parigi o cara
We shall leave Paris
Alfredo and Violetta dream of a life together away from Paris, to restore Violetta to health.
Che farò senza Euridice
What shall I do without Eurydice?
Orpheus’ beautiful lament to his lost wife, Eurydice, whom he seeks to bring back from the Underworld.
Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein
You shall be the emperor of my soul
A delightful Viennese operetta song from a little-known work – Der Favorit – paints a delicious landscape of love.
Prenderò quel brunettino
I’ll take the dark haired one
Although their fiancés are (supposedly) away at war, Dorabella and Fiordiligi decide there’s no harm in picking out a man they fancy and flirting a little…
La calunnia
Slander
Basilio describes the malicious and insidious power of slander to ruin a person’s reputation.
Donde lieta…
To the home she happily left…
Having agreed to separate for the sake of her health, Mimì bids Rodolfo a fond but tearful farewell.
No, no. no, non v’è
No, no. no, there’s no-one
Cinderella’s step-sisters see themselves as irresistibly beautiful and charming.
La Regata Veneziana
The Venetian Regatta
This song describes the efforts of two gondoliers as the race draws to a close and conjures up the anxious feelings of a young girl watching her beloved compete.
Tu che di gel sei cinta
You who are girdled with ice
Liù, a slave girl, refuses to reveal her prince’s name to Turandot and predicts that the icy princess will also succumb to love.
Che farò senza Euridice
What shall I do without Eurydice?
Orpheus’ beautiful lament to his lost wife, Eurydice, whom he seeks to bring back from the Underworld.