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aria

[ahr-ee-uh, air-ee-uh] / ˈɑr i ə, ˈɛər i ə /
NOUN
operatic solo
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She also excelled in the fast, showy aria in which she warns Dejanira to beware of jealousy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

The song Sweet Transvestite has been described as the first big, glam-rock aria of the musical, and is the audience's introduction to Dr Frank-N-Furter.

From BBC Mar. 9, 2026

Yvonne Russo’s documentary “Viva Verdi!” captures the vibrant life inside its walls, expressed in the aria “Sweet Dreams of Joy,” sung by soprano Ana María Martínez and composed by Nicholas Pike.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

Not everyone was happy with the last minute arrangement however, with some members of the audience reportedly booing when the opera's famous aria -- Nessun dorma -- was omitted.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

But an aria like Handel’s ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ from Rinaldo could leave an audience hoarse with cheering as well as weak with emotion, depending on which heart-throb singer was delivering it.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

The music seesaws brilliantly between Blanche’s dreaming arias, when time seems to stop, and her impoverished reality.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

Additional Vivaldi arias and ensembles are deftly interpolated among the scrambled “Seasons” movements, their words a combination of Ms. Ruhl’s new English texts and the original Italian and Latin.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 22, 2025

The arias and duets, which are almost always slowly paced and formless, lack that visceral, theatrical punch and do not musically distinguish one character from another.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2025

Playwright Richard Greenberg was the maestro of shimmering verbal arias.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2025

I may have to suffer through these lessons before I can go off and practice my arias, but I never get tired of being with him.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper




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