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Wilo D New vs. El Chuape - Dale Con Tu Chapa (DJ Kazzanova Mashup)

Dale Con Tu Chapa (DJ Kazzanova Mashup)

Carmen Habanera is an aria from the French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. Music by Georges Bizet
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The English translation :
Love is a rebellious bird
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain
if it suits him not to come.
Nothing helps, neither threat nor prayer.
One man talks well, the other's mum;
it's the other one that I prefer.
He's silent but I like his looks.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy's child,
it has never, ever, known a law;
love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you'd best beware! etc.

The bird you thought you had caught
beat its wings and flew away ...
love stays away, you wait and wait;
when least expected, there it is!

All around you, swift, so swift,
it comes, it goes, and then returns ...
you think you hold it fast, it flees
you think you're free, it holds you fast.

Love! Love! Love! Love!

Love is a gypsy's child,
it has never, ever, known a law;
love me not, then I love you;
if I love you, you'd best beware!

Maria Callas - Habanera - Carmen - Bizet

Absolventský koncert
NKS Konzervatória Žilina
25. mar. 2014
Dominika Gorecká – spev 6. roč.
trieda: MgA. V. Časnochová
Mgr. art. Zuzana Priečinská - klavír

Georges Bizet: Habanera - ária Carmen z opery Carmen

Turn of the Screw - Premiere

This extract features as part of a music article in the Royal Opera House Digital Programme for Guillaume Tell. Visit www.roh.org.uk/publications/guillaume-tell-digital-programme to find out more.

Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Rossini's Guillaume Tell, featuring Gerald Finley, John Osborn, Malin Byström and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Recording appears on SoundCloud by kind permission of  of Warner Classics and is available to buy in full from their collection, online or at the Royal Opera House Shop.

Guillaume Tell Overture (finale)

This extract features as part of a music article in the Royal Opera House Digital Programme for Guillaume Tell. Visit www.roh.org.uk/guillaume-tell-digital-programme to find out more.

Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Rossini's Guillaume Tell, featuring Gerald Finley, John Osborn, Malin Byström and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Recording appears on SoundCloud by kind permission of of Warner Classics and is available to buy in full from their collection, online or at the Royal Opera House Shop.

Mathilde's Act II aria, 'Sombre forêt'

This extract features as part of a music article in the Royal Opera House Digital Programme for Guillaume Tell. Visit www.roh.org.uk/publications/guillaume-tell-digital-programme to find out more.

Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Rossini's Guillaume Tell, featuring Gerald Finley, John Osborn, Malin Byström and Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Recording appears on SoundCloud by kind permission of of Warner Classics and is available to buy in full from their collection, online or at the Royal Opera House Shop.

Arnold's Act IV aria with the chorus, 'Amis, amis, secondez a ma vengeance!'

Arnold - 'Vengeance!'

Guillaume Tell - 'Sois Immobile'

Vinson Cole as Don Carlos and William Stone as Rodrigue sing the Friendship duet from Verdi’s “Don Carlos” at Seattle Opera in 1993. The orchestra of Seattle Opera was conducted by Thomas Fulton. Photo by Greg Eastman.


Friendship Duet from DON CARLOS, with Vinson Cole and William Stone

The young Chevalier Des Grieux falls madly in love at first sight with the pretty young Manon Lescaut, bound for a convent, and remembers how she told him her name in the beautiful tenor aria "Donna non vidi mai" from Act 1 of Puccini's MANON LESCAUT. Ted Lee sang this role at Seattle Opera in 2005, under the baton of Antonello Allemandi.
Photo by Rozarii Lynch

MANON LESCAUT "Donna non vidi mai"

Australian baritone José Carbo sang the beloved baritone aria “Largo al factotum” in Seattle Opera’s 2011 BARBER OF SEVILLE. The self-satisfied barber bounds onstage and proceeds to sing his own praises in this delightful music, climaxing in his imitation of all the people of Seville clamoring for him. Dean Williamson conducted the orchestra of Seattle Opera. 

Photo by Rozarii Lynch

Figaro’s Entrance from THE BARBER OF SEVILLE

In Rossini’s whimsical take on the Cinderella story, Dandini, the Prince’s valet, makes a show-stopping entrance in the first-scene, pretending to be the Prince (who, disguised as a valet, has already fallen for pretty Cenerentola). In Seattle Opera’s 2013 LA CENERENTOLA, Brett Polegato as Dandini simultaneously ridiculed the Prince (René Barbera), Don Magnifico (Patrick Carfizzi), and Cenerentola (Daniela Pini)’s wicked step-sisters Clorinda (Dana Pundt) and Tisbe (Sarah Larsen). Giacomo Sagripanti conducted the chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera.

Photo by Alan Alabastro 

LA CENERENTOLA: Dandini Impersonates the Prince

Ludwig van Beethoven - Wellington's Victory, Op. 91

Ludwig van Beethoven - Wellington's Victory

Wilo D New - Dale Con To

Join me as I sit down with Emily Cabiness, librarian and archivist for the Seattle Opera. We discuss the art of opera, through both process and product. How does it stay relevant in contemporary life? What kind of collaborative work does it take to put on a production? What does a librarian do for an opera company? How does music help us express the otherwise ineffable? 

A funny, engaging, and emotional chat with a good friend of the show.

(Disclaimer: Emily participated in this discussion outside of her official duties with the Seattle Opera. As such, all of her opinions are her own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Seattle Opera or any affiliated staff or artists!)

For more information about the Seattle Opera, including upcoming shows and events, visit https://www.seattleopera.org/ 

For those interested in listening to Emily’s scene selections further, please see the recorded versions below:

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro - “Pace Pace Mio Dolce Tesoro” - https://open.spotify.com/track/3EQrqvdRO7VMWSPKSlCdSe

Wager’s The Valkyrie - “War Es So Schmählich”
https://open.spotify.com/track/68CZHU1J4F89quxGwQOQGn

All clips and music used under Creative Commons and Fair Use policies.

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Farinelli - Lascia Ch'io Pianga - soundtrack

Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti (1986)

No Se Olviden Likear Mi Fan Page ; http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dj-Yar/146863838719591

Yomo - Dale Con Presion [ Yar Edit 2012 ] - 96

Tonight (West Side Story) - John Barrowman and Lea Salonga

I feel pretty (West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein)

One of Verdi’s most beloved melodies, the famous chorus “Va, pensiero” from “Nabucco” serves as a sort of unofficial national anthem in Italy. In the opera the Hebrews, languishing in captivity in Babylon, remember their beloved homeland in Zion with longing and seek the strength to endure their suffering and exile. Carlo Montanaro conducted the chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera on opening night of the Seattle premiere of "Nabucco," August 8, 2015. Photo by Philip Newton.


“Va, pensiero” - from NABUCCO

Richard Clayderman - For Elise

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - MUSIC OF THE NIGHT Vladimir Burkhardt Live in der Stadthalle Wuppertal

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - MUSIC OF THE NIGHT

Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera is a leading American opera company. The company presents the classics of the European repertoire as well as new works of American opera. Frequent productions of Wagner's RING, beginning in 1975, established the company's worldwide reputation. Seattle Opera usually presents five opera productions each year.