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Luciano Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma! (Lyric Video)

Luciano Pavarotti sings "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's Turandot - with lyrics. Feel free to read along or sing along!

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English Lyrics:

Nobody shall sleep!...
Nobody shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess,
in your cold room,
watch the stars,
that tremble with love and with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me,
my name no one shall know...
No!...No!...
On your mouth, I will tell it when the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!...
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!

The Three Tenors: Brindisi (from Verdi's La Traviata)[Lyric Video]

Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras perform the infamous "Brindisi" (Libiamo ne'lieti calici) from Verdi's La Traviata. Feel free to read along the lyrics or try to sing along with them!

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English Lyrics:
Let's drink, let's drink from the joyous chalices
that beauty blossoms.
And may the fleeting moment
be elated with voluptuousness.
Let's drink from the sweet thrills
that love arouses,
because that eye aims straight to the almighty heart.
Let's drink, my love: the love among chalices
will have warmer kisses.

Chorus
Ah, let's drink, my love: the love among chalices
will have warmer kisses.

With you, with you I'll be able to share
my cheerful times.
Everything is foolish in the world
which is not pleasure.
Let's enjoy ourselves, for fleeting and quick
the delight of love is:
it's a flower that blooms and dies
and can no longer be enjoyed.
Let's enjoy ourselves, fervent
flattering voice invites us.

Ah, let's enjoy the cup, the cup and the chants,
the embellished nights and the laughter;
let the new day find us in this paradise.

Life means celebration.
If one hasn't known love.
Don't tell someone who doesn't know.
But this is my fate.

All
Ah, let's enjoy the cup, the cup and the chants,
the embellished night and the laughter;
let the new day find us in this paradise.
Ah, ah, let the new day find us. (We shall let the new day find us.)
Ah, ah, let the new day find us. (We shall let the new day find us.)
Ah, yes... (Yes, we shall let, we shall let the new day find us...)

Plácido Domingo
Luciano Pavarotti
José Carreras

Maria Callas - Habanera (Lyric Video)

Maria Callas performs the "Habanera" (L'amour est un oiseau rebelle) from Bizet's Opera Carmen. Feel free to sing along!

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English Lyrics:

CARMEN
Love is a rebellious bird
that no one can tame,
and it’s quite useless to call him
if it suits him refuse.
Nothing moves him, neither threat nor plea,
one man speaks freely, the other keeps mum;
and it’s the other one I prefer:
he’s said nothing, but I like him.
Love! etc.

CHORUS
Love is a rebellious bird, etc.

CARMEN
Love is a gypsy child,
he has never heard of law.
If you don’t love me, I love you;
if I love you, look out for yourself! etc.

CHORUS
Look out for yourself! etc.
Love is a gypsy child etc.

CARMEN
The bird you thought to catch unawares
beats its wings and away it flew –
love’s far away, and you can wait for it:
you wait for it no longer – and there it is.
All around you, quickly, quickly,
it comes, it goes, then it returns –
you think you can hold it, it evades you,
you think to evade it, it holds you fast.
Love! etc.

CHORUS
All around you, etc.

CARMEN
Love is a gypsy child,
he has never heard of law.
If you don’t love me, I love you;
if I love you, look out for yourself!
If you don’t love me, I love you, etc.

The Flower Duet (from "Lakmé)[Lyric Video]

Sabine Devieilhe and Marianne Crebassa perform the famous Flower Duet from Léo Delibes' Lakmé. Feel free to read or sing along!

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English translation (duet only):

L: Thick dome of jasmine
M: Under the dense canopy where the white jasmine,

L:Blends with the rose,
M: That blends with the rose,

L:Bank in bloom, fresh morning,
M: On the flowering bank, laughing in the morning,

L: Call us together.
M: Come, let us drift down together.

L: Ah! Let's glide along
M: Let us gently glide along; For its enchanting flow

L: The fleeing current;
M: Let us follow the fleeing current;

L: On the rippling surface,
M: On the rippling surface,

L: With a nonchalant hand,
M: With a nonchalant hand,

L: Let's go to the shore,
M: Come, let's go to the shore

L: Where the bird sings,
M: Where the spring sleeps.

L: the bird, the bird sings.
M: And the bird, the bird sings.

L: Thick dome, white jasmine,
M: Under the dense canopy, Under the white jasmine,

L: Call us together!
M: Ah! Let's drift down together!

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Soprano: Sabine Devieilhe
Mezzo-Soprano: Marianne Crebassa

Joyce DiDonato - Lascia ch'io pianga (Lyric Video)

Joyce DiDonato performs Lascia ch'io pianga from Handel's opera Rinaldo, HVW 7. Feel free to read or sing along!

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English translation:

Allow me to weep
for my cruel fate,
and to mourn
my lost freedom.

May my sorrow break
these chains,
if only out of pity
for my suffering.

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Mezzo-Soprano: Joyce DiDonato
Orchestra: Il pomo d'oro
Conductor: Maxim Emelyanychev

Diana Damrau - Der Hölle Rache (Lyric Video)

Diana Damrau performs the famous aria of the Queen of the Night from Act II of Mozart's Magic Flute. Feel free to read along or maybe even try to sing along!

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English Lyrics:

Hell’s vengeance seethes in my heart;
the flames of death and despair engulf me!
If Sarastro dies not by your hand,
you will be my daughter no more.
Forever repudiated, forever abandoned,
forever destroyed be all the ties of nature
if Sarastro’s blood is not shed by your hand! –
Hear, hear, hear me, ye gods of vengeance – hear! – a
mother’s vow! –

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Soprano: Diana Damrau
Orchestra: Le Cercle de l'Harmonie
Conductor: Jérémie Rhorer

Jakub Józef Orliński - Vedrò con mio diletto (Vivaldi)[Lyric Video]

Jakub Józef Orliński performs the famous aria "Vedrò con mio diletto" from Vivaldi's Il Giustino, RV 717. Feel free to read or sing along!

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English translation:

I’ll see to my delight
the soul of my soul
the heart of my joyful heart

And if from the beloved object
I’d better be far
I will sigh, suffering each moment

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Jakub Józef Orliński - Counter-Tenor
Maxim Emelyanychev - Conductor
Il pomo d'oro - Orchestra

The Three Tenors - La donna e mobile (Lyric Video)

The Three Tenors - Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras - perform the Duke of Mantua's canzone "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto. Feel free to read along the lyrics or try to sing along with them!

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English Lyrics (Prosaic):
Woman is flighty.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes in voice
and in thought.

Always a lovely,
pretty face,
in tears or in laughter,
it is untrue.

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words
and her thoughts!

Always miserable
is he who trusts her,
he who confides in her
his unwary heart!

Yet one never feels
fully happy
who from that bosom
does not drink love!

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words,
and her thoughts!

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Plácido Domingo
Luciano Pavarotti
José Carreras

Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Mozart: Die Zauberflöte)[Lyric Video]

Walter Berry sings "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute).

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English translation:

The bird-catcher, that's me,
always cheerful, hip hooray!
As a bird-catcher I'm known
to young and old throughout the land.
I know how to set about luring
and how to be good at piping.
That's why I can be merry and cheerful,
for all the birds are surely mine.

The bird-catcher, that's me,
always cheerful, hip hooray!
As a bird-catcher I'm known
to young and old throughout the land.
I'd like a net for girls,
I'd catch them for myself by the dozen!
Then I'd lock them up with me,
and all the girls would be mine.

If all the girls were mine,
I'd barter plenty of sugar:
the one I liked best,
I'd give her the sugar at once.
And if then she kissed me tenderly,
she would be my wife and I her husband.
She'd fall asleep at my side,
and I'd rock her like a child.
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Walter Berry, Bass-Baritone

Maria Callas - Vissi d'arte (Lyric Video)

Maria Callas performs "Vissi d'arte", the popular soprano aria from the second act of the opera "Tosca" by Puccini.

Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover, has been captured because he is suspected of hiding an escaped Republican. Baron Scarpia is trying to use the situation to get close to Tosca. Scarpia has the prisoner tortured to extort a concession from Tosca. Tosca sings an intimate monologue in which she asks God why she is punished like this.

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English translation:

I lived for art, I lived for love,
I never harmed a living soul!
With a discreet hand
I relieved all misfortunes I encountered.

Always with sincere faith
my prayer
rose to the holy tabernacles.
Always with sincere faith
I decorated the altars with flowers.

In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
why do you reward me thus?

I donated jewels to the Madonna's mantle,
and offered songs to the stars and to heaven,
which thus did shine with more beauty.
In this hour of grief,
why, why, Lord,
ah, why do you reward me thus?

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Maria Callas, Soprano