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SING ALONG OPERA ARIAS AND SONGS
Please scroll down to see the operas
and operettas featured.
Opera Sing Along Song Pages are in
alphabetical order.
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Barber of Seville, The
Aria From The Comic Opera
by Gioachino Rossini (1816)
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Carmen
Exciting bullfighter's song from the
Georges Bizet opera masterpiece Carmen
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Carmen reveals her fickle nature regarding
romance in this famous aria
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Poignant aria sung by Don Jose, expressing
his love to Carmen
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Gianni Schicchi
Lilting melodic
love song from the one-act Italian opera
by Giacomo Puccini
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Hansel and Gretel
From the opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert
Humperdinck
English text by George Shackley (1890)
The beautiful duet from this classic
children's opera
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Il Trovatore
Famous Chorus From Verdi's Opera Il
Trovatore
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From Act 4 of the Verdi Opera Il Trovatore
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Stride
La Vampa! and Di Quella Pira
2 MP3
I Pagliacci
"On With The Show!"
From the opera
Music
and Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1892)
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La Boheme
"Che gelida manina" and "Mi chiamano Mimì"
The two most beautiful and romantic operatic
arias ever written,
from the opera La Boheme, by
Giacomo Puccini
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Lakme
French Opera, Written by Leo Delibes
(1883)
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L'Elisire D'Amore
Down
Her Soft Cheek A Pearly Tear
Una
Furtiva Lagrima
Gorgeous aria from the 1832 Italian opera
L'Elisire
D'Amore
(The Elixer Of Love)
By Gaetano Donizetti
Melody Lane MP3
Madame Butterfly
Un
bel dì
(One Fine Day)
Aria from the Italian opera by Giacomo
Puccini
Libretto : Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi
Illica (1904)
The plaintive, passionate song of faith
in the face of betrayal,
sung by the young geisha girl with a
loving heart of gold
A classic favorite of romantics everywhere!
Melody Lane MP3
The Marriage of Figaro
Cherubino's Aria From The Opera "Le Nozze
di Figaro"
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~ Libretto
by Lorenzo da Ponte
Premiere: Vienna, May 1, 1786
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Nabucco
From the Giuseppe Verdi Opera Nabucco
(1842)
A stirring and emotional song of freedom
and love of country
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Rigoletto
"Caro Nome" and "La Donna E Mobile"
The sweet virginal ingenue and the lowdown
cad....two arias
from the great Giuseppe Verdi opera
Rigoletto
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Romeo And Juliette
From Charles Gounod's Classic French
Opera (1867)
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Samson and Delilah
Mon
Coeur S'Ouvre A Ta Voix
(My Heart At Thy Sweet
Voice)
By Camille Saint-Saens (1877)
A haunting song of a tragic, doomed
love
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Tales Of Hoffman, The
From the French opera Les Contes De Hoffman
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier
English Words by William George
From a play by Barbiere and Carré
First performed on February 10, 1881
at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
Featured in the Academy
Award winning Italian film Life Is Beautiful
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Tannhäuser
The magnificent chorus from the Richard
Wagner opera (1848)
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Tosca
Two luscious, sublime, beautiful and
romantic arias from the Giacomo Puccini opera Tosca
Melody Lane MP3 Files
Tristan and Isolde
The final love-death aria sung by Isolde
in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan
and Isolde
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Turandot
Magnificent solo from the Puccini Opera
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Operettas
Light Opera Classics
From the operetta Blossom Time
About the life of classical composer
Franz Schubert
Music by Sigmund Romberg and Lyrics
by Dorothy Donnelly (1921)
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Two From the 1903 Operetta "Babes In
Toyland"
Music by Victor Herbert. Book and Lyrics
by Glen MacDonough
Publication: New York: M. Witmark &
Sons, 1903.
These two exquisitely wistful and beautiful
MIDI songs were featured in
Laurel and Hardy's holiday classic "March
of the Wooden Soldiers"
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The Bohemian Girl
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls
From The Opera
Music Written by Michael William Balfe
and Lyrics by Alfred Bunn (1834)
Beautiful, romantic aria, sung by a
gypsy girl who dreams of a better life
Melody Lane MP3
Tell
Me Pretty Maiden
(Are
There Any More At Home Like You?)
From Florodora
Book by Owen Hall, Music by Leslie Stuart
(1900)
A landmark song for musical comedy operetta's,
this number was the hit from the show
Melody Lane MP3 and Vintage Recording
MP3
The Beggar's Opera
Two Airs from the John Gay 1728 Opera
Rousing number from Act 4
Sung by George C. Scott in the 1971
TV film based on
the Charlotte Bronte novel Jane Eyre
Virgins Are Like The Fair Flower
Rather sad and haunting Air Number 6
from the opera,
giving an allegory between flowers dying
and the loss
of virginity in a maiden fair.
Sung by the characters Frank and Jane
in the 1995 Miramax film based on Jane
Austen's Emma
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Victor Herbert Operettas
Lyrics by Henry Blossom and Music by
Victor Herbert
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1906)
3 Musical selections from The Red Mill,
an operetta
about two Americans playing matchmaker
in Holland
This show was a big hit for Victor Herbert,
and featured
the show stopper The Streets Of New
York,
featured here, which had them dancing
in the aisles
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Words by B. G. DeSylva
Music by Victor Herbert
From the operetta Orange Blossoms (1922)
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Music by Victor Herbert, Lyrics by Henry
Blossom
From the 1905 operetta Mademoiselle
Modiste comes this romantic
standard song that has been popular
for generations
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Words by Harry B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
Publication: New York: Edward Schuberth
& Co., (1895)
A beautiful love song popularized in
an early operetta for
Victor Herbert called "The Wizard of
the Nile"
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Lyrics by Henry Blossom and Music by
Victor Herbert
Publication: New York: M. Witmark &
Sons, 1914.
From Victor Herbert's comical operetta
The
Only Girl
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Great Selections From the English Light
Opera H.M.S. Pinafore
Lyrics and Music by Gilbert and Sullivan
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and
The Pirates of Penzance
Selections From the English Light Opera
Lyrics and Music by Gilbert and Sullivan
I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General
2 Melody Lane MP3 Sing Along Files
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