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"I am obliged to write an opera in fourteen days. I give you a week to do your share...But I warn you, we have a German prima donna, a tenor who stutters, a buffo with a voice like a goat, and a worthless French basso. Still, we must cover ourselves with glory."
-Gaetano Donizetti to his librettist, Felice Romani, about L'Elisir d'amore
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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

Role : Musetta, Marcello's occasional girlfriend
Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano
Setting : The Cafe Momus
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Having spotted her occasional boyfriend, Marcello, Musetta sings of how everyone always notices her beauty when she goes out.
Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Giuseppe Cusmano.
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 : #1996, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

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

Role : Colline, a philosopher
Voice Part : bass Fach : lyric bass
Setting : An attic room
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : After Mimi has collapsed on the staircase to the attic room, she is carried into the room. On the edge of death, she says that her hands are cold. In order to buy her something to keep her hands warm, Musetta pawns her jewelry and Colline decides to pawn his old overcoat, to which he sings farewell.
Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Marco Milano from OperaWeb.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto originally entered by Richard Bogart and Giovanni Christen from OperaGlass.
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 : #1998, for score : #50019 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Un bel dì vedremo
from Act II of the Italian opera, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Madame Butterfly, a Japanese girl alson known as Cio-Cio-San
Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano|spinto
Setting : Butterfly's house
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Three years have passed since Butterfly's American husband left her. Her servant Suzuki, tries to convince her that he isn't coming back, but Butterfly is convinced that he will. She sings of the day that he will return. She dreams of him sailing into the harbour and climbing up the hill to meet her.
Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Marco Milano from OperaWeb.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Robert Glaubitz.
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 : #2556, for opera : #50010 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Tu, tu piccolo Iddio
from Act III of the Italian opera, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Madame Butterfly, a Japanese girl alson known as Cio-Cio-San
Voice Part : soprano Fach : lyric soprano|spinto
Setting : Butterfly's house
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Butterfly has discovered that Pinkerton has married again. Consumed with despair and about to kill herself, she tells her son that he will never remember her or remember that she died for him.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Ugo Berardi.
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50010 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Dovunque al mondo
from Act I of the Italian opera, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Benjamin Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the US Navy
Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto
Setting : The garden of a Japanese house, overlooking the Nagasaki harbour
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Pinkerton speaks with Sharpless, the U.S. Consul, saying that Americans can have any fun they want with the native women and then move on no matter where they are.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : none
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50010 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Addio, fiorito asil
from Act III of the Italian opera, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Benjamin Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the US Navy
Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto
Setting : Butterfly's house
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Pinkerton comes to Butterfly's house and, after speaking to Suzuki, decides that it would be too painful to say goodbye to Butterfly directly. He bids adieu to the house in which he and Butterfly spent many happy hours.
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 #50010 (Ricordi). Buy complete score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Vissi d'arte
from Act II of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Floria Tosca, a famous singer
Voice Part : soprano Fach : spinto
Setting : Scarpia's study
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : In the midst of a uncomfortable conversation with Scarpia about the fate of Tosca's lover, Tosca sings of the two great driving forces in her life, love and music.
Sound file : Fully orchestrated MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Jill P. Bondurant. Real Audio file by Evelyn Faye Johnson. MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Marco Milano from OperaWeb.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Rebecca Burstein. Translation by Jamshed Variava.
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 : #2560, for opera : #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

Io de' sospiri
from Act III of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Shepherd Boy,
Voice Part : contralto
Setting : A fortress, in the distance
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : The morning song of a shepherd boy.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto originally entered by Giovanni Christen from OperaGlass.
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

Recondita armonia
from Act I of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover
Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto
Setting : The inside of a Roman church
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Cavaradossi is painting a Madonna for the church and he has based the painting on a woman who prays often at the church. He sings of the differences between his picture of a fair Madonna and the darker beauty of his love, Tosca.
Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Mark Harris.
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 : #2008, for opera : #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

E lucevan le stelle
from Act III of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover
Voice Part : tenor Fach : spinto
Setting : The ramparts of a fortress
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : After trading his last possession, a ring, to get a guard to take a letter to Tosca. As he writes the letter, he sings of his love for Tosca and for life.
Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Jill P. Bondurant. MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Bill King. MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Marco Milano from OperaWeb.
Translation and/or Aria Text : Poetic translation by Mark D. Lew.
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 : #1287, for opera : #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

Va, Tosca!
from Act I of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Baron Scarpia, chief of the Roman police
Voice Part : baritone Fach : dramatic baritone
Setting : The inside of a Roman church
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : After making Tosca jealous enough to turn away from her lover Cavaradossi, Scarpia congratulates himself for all his future successes.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto originally entered by Giovanni Christen from OperaGlass.
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

Ha piu forte sapore
from Act II of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Baron Scarpia, chief of the Roman police
Voice Part : baritone Fach : dramatic baritone
Setting : Scarpia's study
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : Scarpia comments on the joy of conquest and how it goes beyond the pleasure of romance.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : none
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

Gia mi dicon venal
from Act II of the Italian opera, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Role : Baron Scarpia, chief of Roman police
Voice Part : baritone Fach : dramatic baritone
Setting : Scarpia's study
Range : Has not been entered yet.
Synopsis : In response to Tosca's offer of a bribe, Scarpia says that he may be ruthless, but he values his honor more than money.
Sound file : none
Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto originally entered by Giovanni Christen from OperaGlass.
Recordings : Complete Opera Excerpts from Opera
Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #50482 (Ricordi), also available in Schrimer from Music Mart.

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