Love, Opera Style

By Romana Annette 03/13/2011

Love is rebellious bird, that no one can tame; [Carmen]

Love is a sleeping goddess, surrounded by flames; [Siegfried]

Love is a faithful wife, disguised as a man; [Fidelio]

Love is a beautiful daughter, spared from sacrifice; [Iphigenia in Tauris]

Love is a fated couple, with similar first names; [The Magic Flute]

Love is a desire, and a fake magic potion; [the Elixir of Love]

Love is a gay blade, possibly settling down; [The Marriage of Figaro]

Love is sacrifice, being entombed together forever; [Aida]

Love is a woman’s courage, without Sergeant Preston; [Donna Diana]

Love is Mimi, despite her untimely death; [La Boheme]

Love is dying, with your sweetheart at your side; [War and Peace]

Love, sort of, is one boy-toy after another; [The Italian Girl in Algiers]

Love is dying in the flames with one’s lover; [Norma]

Love is willingness to kill to save one’s husband; [Tosca]

Love is the most important part of amore, morte, vendetta.