Anyone likes to listen? Let's start with Mozart.

Diana Damrau singing

“Der hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen”

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Big fan of later opera--Tchaikovsky (Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin especially) Puccini, etc--as well as some modern Britten. though really I'd rather listen to some of the more complex musical theatre stuff--Stephen Sondheim is basically my musical idol but I like some of the more complex modern composers coming along-- Michael John LaChiusa in particular who people can't decide if he's Broadway or Opera lol.

A clip from a production of his jazz opera The Wild Party (Tonya Perkins from AMC was in the original along with Toni Colette and Mandy Patinkin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYRtamh6hQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHbSNIOYYWk

Cecilia Bartoli in Händel's oratorio Semele

(“explosive impact of a 20 Mega ton atomic bomb”)

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Natalie Dessay & Cecilia Bartoli in Mitridate, re di Ponto

“Se viver non degg'io”

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