YGK arias (singer+opera+composer/title)

queen Dido, Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell (features chromatic lament bass)

When I am laid in earth (Dido’s Lament)

Queen of the Night, The Magic Flute, Mozart (Josepha Hofer)

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (Der Hölle Rache / the Queen of the Night’s aria)

Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Gioacchino Rossini (sings his own name)

Largo al factotum

Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti (based on novel by Sir Walter Scott, glass harmonica)

Il dolce suono (Lucia’s “mad scene”)

Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi (canzone, “feather in the wind”)

La donna è mobile

Carmen, Carmen, Georges Bizet (habanera dance style, adapted from piece by Sebastián Iradier)

L’amour est un oiseau rebelle

Canio, Pagliacci, Ruggero Leocavallo (clown, Enrico Caruso’s recording)

Vesti la giubba

Prince Calaf, Turandot, Giacomo Puccini (tenor Luciano Pavarotti)

Nessun Dorma

Clara, Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin (Black spiritual, lyrics by DuBose Heyward)

Summertime

Richard Nixon, Nixon in China, John Adam (minimalist style)

News has a kind of mystery