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[Joyce DiDonato, singing “Dopo notte” from Handel’s “Ariodante” at the the final stop of the “Furore” Tour, Salzburg 2009. Live, with Paul McCreesh, and with a broken leg, and So Much Joy]

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[Ute Lemper, singing “J’attends un navire” from Kurt Weill’s “Marie Galante” (1934), a key song associated with the French resistance movement during WWII; with RIAS Sinfonietta Berlin & John Mauceri, 1993.]

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[Waltraud Meier, singing Ortrud’s “Entweihte Götter!” from Wagner’s “Loehengrin”, with Kent Nagano conducting. Baden-Baden 2006. – Clip with thanks to Tikilin2010]

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[Jessye Norman, singing “Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit” from the Brahms “Requiem”, with Klaus Tennstedt & London Philharmonic, 1985. – Clips with thanks to Operazaile operazaile]

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[Anne Sofie von Otter, singing “Die zwei blauen Augen” from Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer”, with John Eliot Gardiner & NDR Symphony Orchestra, 1993. – Clip with thanks to MrRobuso]

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[Ermonela Jaho, singing the finale scene of Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”. Staging by Lotte de Beer, conducted by Kirill Petrenko. Munich/Bayerische Staatsoper 2018. – Clip with thanks to BayerischeStaatsoper]

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