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O fior del giorno
from Act I of the italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Fidelia, a young woman in love with Edgar
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : the main square of a Flemish village at dawn in April, late 19th century
- Range : D4 to B6. Tessitura : G4 to G5
- Synopsis : Fidelia walks through the square of the village looking upon the flowers on the tree. Their perfume brings hope to her.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Già il mandorlo vicino
from Act I of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Fidelia, a young woman in love with Edgar
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : the main square of a Flemish village at dawn in April, late 19th century
- Range : C#/Db4 to A6. Tessitura : G#/Ab4 to G5
- Synopsis : Edgar is asleep in front of an inn in the square. Fidelia approaches him and wakes him. Seeing that he is unhappy, she picks small branch off of an almond tree and gives it to him. She tells him that she hopes it will make him feel better.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Questo amor, vergogna mia
from Act I of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Frank, a young man
- Voice Part : baritone Fach : lyric baritone
- Setting : the main square of a Flemish village at dawn in April, late 19th century
- Range : D3 to F4. Tessitura : F3 to E4
- Synopsis : Frank looks at Tigrana from afar and sings of his love for her. He has grown up with her and loves her very much, but she does not return the love and, in fact, is wrongful since they are almost like brother and sister.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Tu il cuor mi strazi
from Act I of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Tigrana, a woman in love with Edgar
- Voice Part : mezzo-soprano Fach : dramatic mezzo
- Setting : the main square of a Flemish village at dawn in April, late 19th century
- Range : C4 to A#/Bb6. Tessitura : D#/Eb4 to D#/Eb5
- Synopsis : Tigrana comes out from an inn and sits on a table and begins a provocative song. She accompanies herself on the dembal (a type of lute). Her song speaks of her lack of belief in religion.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
O soave visïon
from Act II of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Edgar, a young man in love with Fidelia
- Voice Part : tenor Fach : lyric tenor
- Setting : a terrace next to a garden, a village in Flanders, late 19th century
- Range : D#/Eb3 to A#/Bb5. Tessitura : G#/Ab3 to G#/Ab4
- Synopsis : Edgar reveals that he is tired with his pleasure-filled life with Tigrana and that he wishes he could return to the simple life in his old village that he threw away before. He especially misses Fidelia.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Addio, addio mio dolce amor!
from Act III of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Fidelia, a young woman in love with Edgar
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : the front of a fortress, Courtray, Flanders, late 19th century
- Range : C4 to A#/Bb6. Tessitura : D4 to F5
- Synopsis : Fidelia believes that Edgar has died as a great hero in battle. At his funeral, she sings farewell to her one true love, asking him to wait for her in Heaven.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Nel villaggio d'Edgar
from Act III of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Fidelia, a young woman in love with Edgar
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : the front of a fortress, Courtray, Flanders, late 19th century
- Range : C4 to A#/Bb6. Tessitura : F4 to F#/Gb5
- Synopsis : Edgar has supposedly died as a hero in battle. However, at his funeral, it is revealed that he was not quite as good as her was made out to be. In fact, he apparently set fire to his house and wounded Frank in order to run off with the courtesan Tigrana. As the mob cries out for his body to be thrown to the crows, his love Fidelia steps out and sings that, she too was from Edgar's village and knows that his heart and soul were pure even though he may have committed a few small sins.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Bella signora il pianto sciupa gli occhi
from Act III of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Edgar, a young man in love with Fidelia
- Voice Part : tenor Fach : lyric tenor
- Setting : the front of a fortress, Courtray, Flanders, late 19th century
- Range : G4 to G5. Tessitura : A5 to F#/Gb5
- Synopsis : Edgar, disguised as the monk presiding over his own funeral, tells Fidelia not to cry when his name is denounced as a sinner and a traitor to his country.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
O lebbra, sozzura del mondo
from Act III of the Italian opera, Edgar by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Ferdinando Fontana
- Role : Edgar, a young man in love with Fidelia
- Voice Part : tenor Fach : lyric tenor
- Setting : the front of a fortress, Courtray, Flanders, late 19th century
- Range : F3 to B5. Tessitura : B4 to F#/Gb4
- Synopsis : Edgar has revealed that he is not, in fact, dead as previously stated in the opera. He is alive and has witnessed his former lover Tigrana telling lies about him at his funeral for money. He denounces her as a filthy leper and turns to his true love Fidelia saying that the illusions that had surrounded him before are now gone away.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50098 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
O mio babbino caro
from the one-act Italian opera, Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giovacchino Forzano
- Role : Lauretta, the daughter of Gianni Schicchi
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : The bedroom of Buoso Donati, Florence, Italy, 1299
- Range : D#/Eb4 to G#/Ab5. Tessitura : F4 to G#/Ab5
- Synopsis : Buoso Donati has died and his relatives have found his will and discoverd that he has left all his money to the church. Furious, they do not know what to do. Rinuccio, who is in love with Lauretta but is forbidden to marry her unless he was left some of the inheritance, sends for Gianni Schicchi and Lauretta to see if they can help them. When the relatives find this out, they are furious and argue with Gianni Schicchi. Fed up, he starts to leave, but Lauretta stops him with this aria, singing that she loves Rinuccio and if doesn't help them, she will throw herself in the river and die.
- Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Jill P. Bondurant. Sibelius score (requires Sibelius Scorch plug-in), MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Elizabeth Hunt.
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Giuseppe Cusmano.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #1918, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Firenze è come un albero fiorito
from the one-act Italian opera, Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giovacchino Forzano
- Role : Rinuccio, Zita's (the old woman) nephew
- Voice Part : tenor Fach : lyric tenor
- Setting : The bedroom of Buoso Donati, Florence, Italy, 1299
- Range : F3 to A#/Bb5. Tessitura : A#/Bb4 to G#/Ab4
- Synopsis : After telling his family that he has called for Gianni Schicchi to help them regain their inheritance, he proceeds to sing them a noble song which extolls the virtues of Florence and that Gianni Schicchi embodies all of them.
- Sound file : none
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto originally entered by Richard Bogart from OperaGlass.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50019 (Ricordi). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Si corre dal notaio - buffo aria
from the one-act Italian opera, Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giovacchino Forzano
È ben altro il mio sogno!
from the one-act Italian opera, Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Adami
Perchè, perchè non m'ami più?
from the one-act Italian opera, Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Adami
Hai ben ragione
from the one-act Italian opera, Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Adami
Mi chiamano Mimi
from Act I of the Italian opera, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
- Role : Mimi, a seamstress
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : Christmas Eve in a room in an attic
- Range : Has not been entered yet.
- Synopsis : After Rodolfo tells her that he has fallen in love with her, he asks Mimi to tell him something of her. She responds, telling him (among other things) that her name is Lucia, although she is called Mimi.
- Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King.
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Terri Eickel. Please contact Robert Glaubitz to ask permission to use this translation for anything else than personal use.
- Recordings : Aria Alone Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #2002, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Quando m'en vo'
from Act II of the Italian opera, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Donde lieta usci
from Act III of the Italian opera, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
- Role : Mimi, a seamstress
- Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
- Setting : The barrière d'Enfer, on the outskirts of Paris
- Range : Has not been entered yet.
- Synopsis : Rodolfo and Mimi have had a fight, Rodolfo saying that Mimi has been flirting with other men. However, the real reason he wants to separate from Mimi is because she is very sick and he cannot bear to watch her die. He reveals this to Marcello, but Mimi overhears him and, after Marcello leaves, she comes out to him and asks him to return all of her possessions to her former room.
- Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King.
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Terri Eickel. Please contact Robert Glaubitz to ask permission to use this translation for anything else than personal use.
- Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #2001, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Che gelida manina
from Act I of the Italian opera, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
- Role : Rodolfo, a poet
- Voice Part : tenor Fach : lyric tenor
- Setting : Christmas Eve in a room in an attic
- Range : Has not been entered yet.
- Synopsis : After both of their candles go out, Rodolfo and a young woman who has come to his room in order to relight her candle are in the darkness together. Pretending to look for her key which she had lost in the room, Rodolfo instead finds her hand and sings to her of his dreams and ambitions. He also tells her that he has fallen in love with her.
- Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King.
- Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Peter J. Nasou.
- Recordings : Aria Alone Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
- Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #1999, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.
Vecchia zimarra
from Act IV of the Italian opera, La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
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