Opera Favorites
We seem to get asked this question a lot! Here is a list of some of the WSWCO team favorites:
Aaron:
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Opera: Lohengrin by Wagner
Role: Hans Sachs from Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Aria: Dopo Notte from Ariodante
Scene: Bevo Al Tuo Fresco Sorriso from La Rondine
Bryana:
Composer: It’s between Beethoven or Handel
Opera: For now I’ll say Marriage - I never get sick of hearing it
Role: Carmen. She’s spicy ;)
Aria: Song to the Moon makes me cry
Scene: Marriage of Figaro Trio right after non so piu
Julia:
Composer: Wolf. ….oh opera composer? Usually Massenet.
Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro
Role: Lucia
Aria: It has to be a three-way tie between “Ah, non credea…ah, non giunge,” Desdemona’s Willow Song, and “Casta Diva.”
Scene: Che gelida manina…Si, mi chiamano Mimi…O soave fanciulla (Boheme)
Suzanne:
Composer: Beethoven for non-opera, honestly can’t pick for opera… I am a sucker for early Strauss though…
Opera: Don Giovanni
Role: Manon (the Massenet one!)
Aria: Letter scene from Onegin or Stridono lassù from Pagliacci
Scene: Presentation of the Rose from Der Rosenkavalier or the St. Sulpice scene from Massenet’s Manon
Kate:
Composer: Bizet
Opera: Like I could choose
Role: Rusalka (when Renee is singing it)
Aria: Am I In Your Light from Doctor Atomic
Scene: the ending trio of Der Rosenkavalier
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