Here's the program of choices for our end of term celebration of great female roles.
We start with a tantrum - the Queen of the Night declaring, "Der Hölle Rache" - Hell's vengence!
Jill K
Queen of the Night - "Der Hölle Rache" - Hell's vengence! Mozart's The Magic Flute.
(You can choose here from 20 different sopranos singing the famous aria!)
Brenda
Delilah - "Softly Awakes My Heart" from Saint-Saens’ opera Samson and Delilah
Ihita
Madama Butterfly – Puccini: 'One Fine Day'.
Met Opera: 2017–18 season.
Hilary
Ella, the mother, is sung by the composer.
You can watch the entire opera on SBS on Demand.
Lyn
Marie - from La fille du regiment by Donizetti -
... and later, "Chacun le sait"
Pat and Ewen
Lucia – from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.
More about Lucia on our earlier blog here.
Dawn
Little Buttercup from HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan
Colette Mann sings her entry song - in the Opera Australia production, 2003.
Michelle
Aida - in Verdi's opera of that name.
Opera of Terrassa, 2018
Sheila
Leonora/Fidelio from Beethoven’s Fidelio .
ROH 2020.
Lise Davidsen is Leonora, with Amanda Forsythe, Georg Zeppenfeld and Robin Tritschler
Tom
Cleopatra
Cecilia Bartoli sings "V'adoro pupille", as “Lydia”, to Cesare (Andreas Scholl).
From Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Act 2, Salzburg Festival, 2012
Sue
Violetta from La Traviata by Verdi
Renee Fleming sings "Sempre Libre" - ‘A toast to the pleasures of life!’
ROH 2011. Alfredo sung by Joseph Calleja
Kaye:
Olympia from The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach
Natalie Dessay sings the Doll's Song, at Chorégies d'Orange festival: 2000
Chris
Adele: 'Mein Herr Marquis' – laughing song from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauß jr.
And to restore proper operatic context,
Edita Gruberova sings "Mein Herr Marquis" at the Wiener Staatsoper, 1990.
Have a happy winter break, everyone. Our term starts again on Friday July 21st.
Lyn, 22 June, 2023
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