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Your search criteria were: Database searched-aria Opera-Edgar Range Function-not used Voice Part-All Language-All "You only have time to clamber up a tree and hold on like grim death. Your hair is blown about, your face is streaked with blood, but when the storm dies off and recedes a little, you get down from your shelter, you shake yourself and you enjoy the pleasure of having escaped a great danger. The hurricane, my dear child, is Wagner or Wagnerism. It is a fearsome but it passes on. The important thing is not to let yourself be carried away..." -Charles Gounod View All Quotes

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.

Giā 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 visīon
      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.