Opera Helps A menu of opera emotions HOPE & FAITH YOUTHFUL LOVE Soprano Soprano (en travesti) - Un bel dì - - Voi che sapete - MADAME BUTTERFLY LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Music Giacomo Puccini Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Guiseppe Giacosa Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Butterfly refuses to think that Pinkerton has abandoned her A young man asks if what he is experiencing for the first time and believes he will return to her one day. is love. * * IMPOSSIBLE LOVE JEALOUSY Soprano Soprano - Sola, perduta, abbandonata - - Quando me’n vo’ - MANON LASCAUT LA BOHÈME Music Giacomo Puccini Music Giacomo Puccini Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Alone, lost and abandoned, Manon recalls her fate and the Hoping to reclaim Marcello’s attention, Musetta sings of her loss of her love. beauty and about how she is desired by others. * * FATE MISSING THE ONE YOU LOVE Soprano Mezzo (en travesti), Haute Contre, Alto Castrato - Vissi d’arte - - Che fàro senza Euridice - TOSCA ORFEO ED EURIDICE Music Giacomo Puccini Music Christoph Willibald Gluck Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica Libretto Raniero de’ Calzabigi Tosca asks why God has forsaken her to the hands of Scarpia Orfeo expresses his sorrow at the death of his beloved who has taken her beloved Cavaradossi captive. Euridice. * * INFIDELITY RECONCILIATION Soprano Soprano - Porgi, amor - - O mio babbino caro - LE NOZZE DI FIGARO GIANNI SCHICCHI Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music Giacomo Puccini Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Libretto Giovacchino Forzano The Countess laments her husband’s infidelity and asks for Lauretta asks her father for permission to live her life with him to come back to her, or otherwise to let her die. Rinuccio, who is the son of his enemy. * * LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT FANTASY LOVE Soprano Mezzo - Mi chiamano Mimì - - Una voce poco fa - LA BOHÈME IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA Music Giacomo Puccini Music Gioacchino Rossini Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica Libretto Cesare Sterbini Mimì meets her neighbour Rudolfo for the first time and Rosina sings about having fallen in love with a person who captivates him. doesn't in fact exist. LOVE THAT CANNOT BE TAMED COURAGE Mezzo Baritone - Habanera - - Votre toast (Toreador song) - CARMEN CARMEN Music Georges Bizet Music Georges Bizet Libretto Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Libretto Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Carmen sings about the power of love. Escamillo sings about living without fear. * * SUSPICION PHILANDERER Baritone Baritone - Aprite un po’ quegli occhi - - Madamina - LE NOZZE DI FIGARO DON GIOVANNI Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Figaro advises men never to trust women. Leporello sings about the women Don Giovanni has chased. * * SEDUCTION PERSUASION Mezzo Baritone - Seguidilla - - Bella siccome un angelo - CARMEN DON PASQUALE Music Georges Bizet Music Gaetano Donizetti Libretto Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Libretto Giovanni Ruffini Carmen seduces Don José; ‘true pleasure is when you’re a Doctor Malatesta sings the praises of his sister as future wife pair’, she sings. for his friend Don Pasquale. * * DECLARATION OF LOVE ADVICE TO THE LOVESICK Baritone Bass - Deh, vieni alla finestra - - Non più andrai - DON GIOVANNI LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Libretto Lorenzo Da Ponte Don Giovanni sings a melancholy declaration of love to a Figaro teases Cherubino that in the military he will have to young woman. forget about falling in love. * * REUNION PROTECTION Baritone Baritone - Di provenza il mar - - O du, mein holder Abendstern - LA TRAVIATA TANNHÄUSER Music Guiseppe Verdi Music Richard Wagner Libretto Francesco Maria Piave Libretto Richard Wagner Giorgio Germont longs for his son Alfred to return home. Wolfram sings to the evening star, asking for its protection. * Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer is produced by Wunderbar and funded by Arts Council England. It was originally commissioned by Folkoperan, Stockholm. www.operahelps.com .