Melody Lane Opera and Operetta Tribute
Members: Please click on the text
links below to go to the custom illustrated, sing-along opera
or operetta song or aria web page of your
choice. Pages all feature custom MIDI files and some
vintage acoustic recordings in MP3. Please
scroll down to see the operas and operettas featured.
Opera Sing Along Song Pages are in
alphabetical order.
Melody Lane Songbook is a private member web site.
Barber of Seville, The
Aria From The Comic Opera
by Gioachino Rossini (1816)
Carmen
Exciting bullfighter's song from the Georges Bizet opera masterpiece Carmen
Carmen reveals her fickle nature regarding romance in this famous aria
Poignant aria sung by Don Jose, expressing his love to Carmen
Gianni Schicchi
Lilting melodic
love song from the one-act Italian opera
by Giacomo Puccini
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
Il Trovatore
The Marx Brothers Meet Verdi's Opera Il Trovatore Head-On
From Act 4 of the Verdi Opera Il Trovatore
It took me 8 months to sequence this gigantic
MIDI file, but it was worth it;
this is one of the most dramatic, romantic
scenes in all opera.
Stride La Vampa! and Di Quella Pira
Ooh, these are my favorites, they are so fun!
I Pagliacci
"On With The Show!"
From the opera
Music
and Libretto by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1892)
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
Lakme
French Opera, Written by Leo Delibes (1883)
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
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!
Nabucco
From the Giuseppe Verdi Opera Nabucco
(1842)
A stirring and emotional song of freedom
and love of country
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
Romeo And Juliette
From Charles Gounod's Classic French Opera (1867)
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
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
Tannhäuser
The magnificent chorus from the Richard Wagner opera (1848)
Tosca
Two luscious, sublime, beautiful and romantic arias from the Giacomo Puccini opera Tosca
Tristan and Isolde
The final love-death aria sung by Isolde
in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and
Isolde
Turandot
Magnificent solo from the Puccini Opera
Operettas
From the operetta Blossom Time
About the life of classical composer Franz
Schubert
Music by Sigmund Romberg and Lyrics by
Dorothy Donnelly (1921)
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"
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 more enchanting world
for herself
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
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
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
Words by B. G. DeSylva
Music by Victor Herbert
From the operetta Orange Blossoms (1922)
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
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"
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
Sung beautifully by Deanna Durbin at the
piano to impress Franchot Tone,
in the Universal film comedy His Butler's
Sister (1943)
Great Selections From the English Light
Opera H.M.S. Pinafore
Lyrics and Music by Gilbert and Sullivan
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
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