# Classic Opera Playlist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 26, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600 "2011-09-26T00:20:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600/1 "2011-09-26T00:20:02Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600/2 "2011-09-26T00:30:51Z")

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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.)

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600/3 "2011-09-26T02:44:03Z")

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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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpT7pK9A61A&feature=related) (familiar part starts at 1:20)

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600/4 "2011-09-26T06:08:07Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-opera-playlist/597600/5 "2011-09-26T06:15:02Z")

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Get the Three Tenors [at amazon.](http://www.amazon.com/Carreras-Domingo-Pavarotti-Tenors-Concert/dp/B0000041XX)  
Personally I think you’ll need Enrico Caruso doing [Vesti La Giubba](http://youtu.be/YTXE2cQiqWk) from Pagliacci.  
Do you want female opera singers?