Classic Opera Playlist

Cafe Society
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OK - I want to make a small playlist of Opera. I am not looking to stretch too much (not having ANY opera right now). I am thinking the trite, well known songs that you see on TV, in commercials, on Bugs Bunny, etc. I just want something fun.

Like Nick Cage in The Family Man:

“La donna è mobile”
from opera “Rigoletto”
Written by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Luciano Pavarotti and The London Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Richard Bonynge
Courtesy of Decca Music Group/Universal International Music, B.V.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

So what do you I need in a 10 song set?

2

les miserables and miss saigon are both pure operas (no talkies whatsoever.) but sorry, you’re looking for classical. aside from “the woman is fickle,” and “the clown,” the only others i know are “nessun dorma”, numbers from m. butterfly and this lady’s piece in “las tosca” (can’t remember the title.)

3

Well, for cartoons, there is the Overture to the Barber of Seville by Rossini.

And for TV ads, there is “The Flower Duet” from Lakmé (familiar part starts at 1:20)

4

Any of the Rossini overtures: The Barber of Seville, La Gazza Ladra, and, of course, William Tell.

5

Get the Three Tenors at amazon.
Personally I think you’ll need Enrico Caruso doing Vesti La Giubba from Pagliacci.
Do you want female opera singers?