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手紙の場<だめになってもいいけど、そのまえにわたしは>Dinaara Ariiewa: Uta

Tchaikovsky: Opera Eugene Onegin, Op. 24 – Act 1, Letter Scene: “Even if it all goes wrong, but before that, I will…” (Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin)

It’s one of the pieces from the opera Eugene Onegin.

The shy young daughter, Tatyana, meets Onegin, who has come from the glittering social world to the countryside, falls for him at first sight, and sings this aria as she pours her ardent feelings into a letter.

It expresses how her heart shifts in many ways under the sway of love—buoyant one moment, troubled the next.

Song of a Woman’s HeartDeru=Monako: uta

La donna è mobile... from the opera Rigoletto (Verdi)

It’s one of the songs from the opera Rigoletto.

There’s an anecdote that, even though Verdi, the composer, forbade it from being sung in public before the premiere to prevent plagiarism, by the next day it had already spread throughout the town.

Sung by the womanizing Duke of Mantua, it portrays the fickle heart of women, yet it’s a lively, cheerful piece with a sprightly rhythm.

Opera Hamlet (by Ambroise Thomas)Tūruzūzu Kyapituru Kokuritsu Kangen Gakudan

HAMLET – Ambroise Thomas (sous-titrés en Français, langue d’origine) (+ chapitrage)

Among the many operas based on Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, the most popular is the one composed by Ambroise Thomas.

It opens with a tragic overture that symbolizes the story, then leads into a brilliant fanfare, unfolding into magnificent music and superb scenes that draw you into Shakespeare’s world.

Comedy The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (by Wagner)Bairoito Shukusai Kangen Gakudan

Bayreuth Festival: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Because many pieces in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg use the diatonic scale, the musical structure is clear and bright.

The performance lasts about four and a half hours, unfolding as a grand and delightful drama.

It premiered at the Munich Court Opera in June 1868.

Opera Rinaldo (by Handel)Fenīche Gekijō Kangen Gakudan

rinaldo de Handel marilyn horne completa

Woven with the architectural beauty of a sublime symphony, this opera tells a love story between the knight Rinaldo and Almirena, the daughter of the Crusaders’ commander-in-chief Goffredo.

The aria sung in the opera, “Lascia ch’io pianga” (“Let Me Weep”), is so beautiful it could be called music of the heavens.

It premiered in February 1711 at the Queen’s Theatre in the Haymarket, London.

Tosca (by Puccini)Berurin Firuhāmonī Kangen Gakudan

Puccini “Tosca” complete recording — Tebaldi / Del Monaco

The opera Tosca features many scenes where the orchestral music is beautifully rendered, and it remains a dramatic, captivating work that never grows tiresome, including famous arias such as Recondita armonia, Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore, and E lucevan le stelle.

It premiered in January 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

The Bourgeois Nobleman (composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully)Mujika Furōrea

LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME – LULLY+MOLIÈRE con testo francese e italiano

The comic opera-ballet The Bourgeois Gentleman is a work that delightfully sings and performs the story of the comical charm of Jourdain, a fabulously wealthy townsman who has succeeded as a merchant and longs to imitate the nobility, along with the love stories surrounding him and his family.

Its premiere was given by Molière’s troupe at the court of Louis XIV in the Château de Chambord in October 1670.