Saturday, September 11, 2010

http://www.musicforpianos.com/operapage.htm good piano midi for Verdi's "Brindisi"

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Barber of Seville, The

Largo al factotum ("Figaro!")

Aria From The Comic Opera
by Gioachino Rossini (1816)
Melody Lane MP3



Carmen



The Toreador March

Exciting bullfighter's song from the Georges Bizet opera masterpiece Carmen
Melody Lane MP3

Habanera

Carmen reveals her fickle nature regarding romance in this famous aria
Melody Lane MP3

The Flower Song

Poignant aria sung by Don Jose, expressing his love to Carmen
Melody Lane MP3



Gianni Schicchi



O Mio Babbino Caro

Lilting melodic love song from the one-act Italian opera
by Giacomo Puccini
Melody Lane MP3



Hansel and Gretel



Evening Prayer

From the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
English text by George Shackley (1890)

The beautiful duet from this classic children's opera
Melody Lane MP3



Il Trovatore



The Anvil Chorus

Famous Chorus From Verdi's Opera Il Trovatore
Melody Lane MP3



The Miserere Scene

From Act 4 of the Verdi Opera Il Trovatore
Melody Lane MP3

Stride La Vampa! and Di Quella Pira
2 MP3



I Pagliacci

"Vesti la giubba"

"On With The Show!" From the opera
Music and Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1892)
Melody Lane MP3



La Boheme



"Che gelida manina" and "Mi chiamano Mimì"

The two most beautiful and romantic operatic arias ever written,
from the opera La Boheme, by Giacomo Puccini
Melody Lane MP3



Lakme



The Flower Duet

Bell Song

French Opera, Written by Leo Delibes (1883)
Melody Lane MP3 Files



L'Elisire D'Amore

Down Her Soft Cheek A Pearly Tear
Una Furtiva Lagrima

Gorgeous aria from the 1832 Italian opera L'Elisire D'Amore
(The Elixer Of Love)
By Gaetano Donizetti
Melody Lane MP3



Madame Butterfly



Un bel dì
(One Fine Day)

Aria from the Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica (1904)
The plaintive, passionate song of faith in the face of betrayal,
sung by the young geisha girl with a loving heart of gold
A classic favorite of romantics everywhere!
Melody Lane MP3





The Marriage of Figaro

Voi che sapete

Cherubino's Aria From The Opera "Le Nozze di Figaro"
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Premiere: Vienna, May 1, 1786
Melody Lane MP3




Nabucco



Va', pensiero

From the Giuseppe Verdi Opera Nabucco (1842)
A stirring and emotional song of freedom and love of country
Melody Lane MP3



Rigoletto



"Caro Nome" and "La Donna E Mobile"

The sweet virginal ingenue and the lowdown cad....two arias
from the great Giuseppe Verdi opera Rigoletto
Melody Lane MP3



Romeo And Juliette

Je Veux Vivre Dans Ce Reve

From Charles Gounod's Classic French Opera (1867)
Melody Lane MP3



Samson and Delilah



Mon Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix
(My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice)

By Camille Saint-Saens (1877)
A haunting song of a tragic, doomed love
Melody Lane MP3



Tales Of Hoffman, The



Barcarolle

From the French opera Les Contes De Hoffman

Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier
English Words by William George
From a play by Barbiere and Carré
First performed on February 10, 1881 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
Featured in the Academy Award winning Italian film Life Is Beautiful
Melody Lane MP3



Tannhäuser

The Pilgrims' Chorus

The magnificent chorus from the Richard Wagner opera (1848)
Melody Lane MP3



Tosca



"Vissi d'arte"

"E Lucevan le stelle"

Two luscious, sublime, beautiful and romantic arias from the Giacomo Puccini opera Tosca
Melody Lane MP3 Files



Tristan and Isolde



Liebestod

The final love-death aria sung by Isolde
in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde
Melody Lane MP3



Turandot

Nessun Dorma

Magnificent solo from the Puccini Opera
Melody Lane MP3

http://www.melodylane.net/opera.html opera sing along in melody lane

http://www.recmusic.org/midi/ -- aria for Gia il sole dal Gange (Scarlatti)

http://www.recmusic.org/midi/ -- a better midi for Mozart's "Aura amorosa"

Opera in nuce

Oper "in nuce" - This website in German and English by Heinz Kern has a variety of operatic "in a nutshell" pieces which he has sequenced for piano. These pieces are some shorter pieces as well as medleys of favorite tunes from the opera, thus "in a nutshell". The initial page has the composers listed alphabetically, with the available pieces listed to the right of the composer. Click on the composer's name to go to the composer's page. Then click the name of the work that you would like to download. This link will take you to a page with the particular MIDI file available. Then, download the file by clicking the "-->download" link. The files are in .zip format, so you will need to unzip them for listening, or let Notation automatically unzip and open them for you. For those who are familiar with world class pianists, you will have fun trying to decipher the whimsical anagrammatic names of various performing pianists at the top of each of these separate MIDI file pages.