Any good female opera/vocal music that you can recommend?

Question

I'm after some popular female opera music - something that isn't too long, and something that sticks to your head over and over again.

Currently, my favorites are:

1) Madame Butterfly, "One fine day"
2) Flower duet "Lakme"
3) Bist Du bei Mir - J.SBach
4) Erbame Dich (have mercy) - J.S.Bach

Any other favorites to add to my collection?

Answer 1

I would recommend Renee Fleming's CD "By Request." She is a lovely artist with an absolutely beautiful voice (America's favorite soprano!). This is her "greatest hits" CD and on it she does a lot of the famous lyric soprano arias and a few showtunes at the end. I think you would really enjoy it.



I also recommend Joan Sutherland's Greatest Hits CD. She sings some great arias on there also.

Answer 2

Tori Amos Meredith Brooks Alanis Morissette Kina Bic Runga Shannon Murray Natalie Merchant Pink No Doubt

Answer 3

Umm...



1. Canzonetta Sull'aria from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

2. The Mad Scene (Il dolce suono) from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

3. Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund gekusst from Strauss' Salome (hair-raising, if you realised what she was doing!)

4. Mi chiamano Mimi from Puccini's La Boheme

5. Tutti i fior (Flower Duet) from Madama Butterfly

6. Ave Maria by Schubert

7. Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen from Mozart's The Magic Flute



That's my list. I highly suggest Nos 3, 4 and 7 for starters. Then move on to the rest. Have fun!

Answer 4

I guess Patricia Kaas also released an album with, um, the Viennese Symphony Orchestra or something? I liked your "current favorites" and don't even know what's on the CD... other than Patricia Kaas ;)

Answer 5

Since she just died, I would collect all of the Beverly Sills recordings that I could find. Sh e was beautiful and wonderful.

I would also collect all of the early Callas recrodings.

And, if youi like these, you could listen to my favorite, Claudia Muzio.

Answer 6

It's not opera but you could try "Blute nur du liebes herz" from Bach's Matthaeus Passion.

In opera try some madness-arias (you know, sometimes they have the heroines go nuts, sometimes they revert to sanity, sometimes not):

- Lucia di Lammermoor (irreversible, with homicide and death)

- Sonnambula (reverts and marries)

- Macbeth (irreversible+death)

- I Puritani (reverts and marries)

- Anna Bolena (reverts but forgives and dies)

Answer 7

*Cent Mille Chanson

*Vision

*Song of Our Homeland (Izzy)

*Paris (Modern-Opera)

*La Notte Eterna

*River of Dreams

Answer 8

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