aria

The prevailing aural color works best in the gentler sections, such as Niamara’s appealing aria, “Love, love, come to me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

In Costanzo’s closing aria, “Gandhi’s Prayer,” he leaves behind, Christ-like, hatred and exultation for unsullied love.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

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

We are in our last week of preparations for the spring expositions, and the maestra has given me a song from the aria book, a song of courage and passion: "Vittoria, mio core" by Carissimi.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

The arias follow the conventions of the period with plenty of coloratura and opportunities to show off, but Mozart’s preternatural ability to create character is already present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

He bestows on his characters arias, and Daniel’s cast delivers them as though the words were expressly made for these particular actors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

To continue the opera metaphor, it’s like staging “La Bohème” with the celebrated arias muted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

She takes all the repeats, which makes it one of the longest arias in the Baroque literature.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman