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Libiamo
Let’s raise a toast

One of opera’s best drinking songs!

Adina, credimi
Believe me, Adina

Adina decides to marry Sergeant Belcore that evening. Nemorino begs her to wait, hoping the “love potion” (cheap wine) he has drunk will change her mind by the next day.

Tiara

In this modern operatic fairy tale, the enchanted pig/ handsome king is lucky to escape Bridezilla, Adelaide, who is not happy her wedding plans are going awry.

Non più mesta
I’ll no longer sit alone

Cinderella reflects on the changes in her life and celebrates with a dance at the ball.

Votre Toast
To your health!

Escamillo, revelling in his celebrity and the thrill of the bullfight, toasts the soldiers in the tavern as fellow fighters…

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Love is a rebellious bird

Carmen teases, warns and beguiles with her statement of what love is… a rebellious, untameable bird.

O mio babbino caro
O my dear father

Lauretta implores her father to allow her to marry Ranuccio, backing up her plea with melodramatic threats to throw herself into the Arno if thwarted.

Kuda kuda vi udalilis
Where, where have you gone …

Lensky meditates on his love for Olga and the prospect of death in his upcoming duel with Onegin.

Deh, vieni alla finestra
Oh, come to the window

Don Giovanni swaps clothes with his servant Leporello in a plot to lure away Donna Elvira so the Don can seduce her maid. Leporello lipsync’s this alluring serenade.

Bella figlia dell‘amore
Beautiful daughter of love

The Duke flirts with Maddalena, watched with despair and condemnation by Rigoletto and Gilda.

Nessun dorma
None shall sleep

Prince Calàf sings a triumphant ode to love.

Sull’ aria
On the breeze…

This deceptively lovely duet from Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is actually a painful admission by the Countess of the loss of her husband’s love.

Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei
Ah! I lost you forever

Riccardo, a Puritan soldier, laments the loss of his beloved, Elvira, who loves his Royalist rival, Arturo.

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.

Sous le dôme épais
Under the wide canopy

This instantly recognisable duet, sung by Lakmé and her maidservant Mallika, evokes the beauty and serenity of nature.