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I am trained in Indian Classical Carnatic style of singing and the vocals of Opera music moved me very much .I would like to get started on listening to some songs .Please help me appreciate this art form. Thank you.

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It is all very well for all these people to give you various samples of operas to listen to, but opera is a dramatic art form that combines acting, music, and staging. And in the opera house there are no microphones to amplify the voices. So it is one of the few places you can experience true vocal sound without any artificial enhancement. I recommend that you attend an opera. If you are not near a place that you can attend a performance, then rent a video of a performance (not as good, but at least you get the drama and the story behind the music). Placido Domingo's Otello is pretty good. You can watch the subtitles at the same time so you know what is going on. Most opera houses in the world have supertitles even when the opera is in a familiar language because the singing makes understanding difficult.

I have been to opera houses whenever I visit a country and even in places like Vienna, you can have English subtitles on little boxes in front of you.

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Fitzcarraldo. Presumably you refer to the marvellous Werner Herzog film about setting up an opera house at Manaos in the middle of the Amazon.

Who can say which opera you would like best. Alas, I haven't the knowledge to connect with your background - but I'd suggest Bizet's 'Carmen' for a start.

A great story and some marvellous music.

Good luck.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote so many wonderful wellknown opera's, like Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Idomeneo and Le Nozze di Figaro.

Also Giuseppe Verdi did some work on Opera.

My advice: Buy a cd with famous opera choirs , or buy one with the most famous aria's from different opera's and you will learn to enjoy the beautiful songs.

You can google on Mozart and Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, Bizet and many others and look for information.

Or just google on "Opera".
The best way to break into opera is to start with the melodious operas of Puccini, like Madame Butterfuly, or La Boheme. I took my friend's kids who said they hated opera and they were overwhelmed by the costuming, staging and music. Then, I would move on to Bizet's "Carmen" which is more fiery and the famous song Habanera is sung. After that you could try La Traviatta. I do not care much for German opera which to me is quite heavy, although I do love Tristan and Isolde's love aria. If you love this type of music be sure to listen to Nessun Dorma which is one of the most beautiful arias I have ever heard. You might also get the musical CD of the Three Tenors Concert, Placido Domingo, Pavoratti and I do not remember the third singer's name, they do various arias which are light and most enjoyable. Puccini is the most melodious of all the opera composers to me, and many have agreed. It took him 5 years of his life to write La Boheme which was based on his living in Paris in a garret apartment and falling in love with a girl who actually died of consumption. I am not a classic lover per se, but I favor Rachmaninoff, Gustav Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakoff in regular classical music. I guarantee you that you will love the operas of Puccini. Good luck and enjoy!!
I think you need to sample some of the basic different styles of Operas...

for instance, German, Italian, French, and English operas will all sound very different. Here are some good operas for which you can search to get you started. Then you can figure out which style you like best and go from there:

Italian : Verdi - "Rigoletto"

Mozart - "The Marriage of Figaro", "The Magic Flute"

English : Gilbert %26amp; Sullivan - "The Pirates of Penzance"

French: Bizet - "Carmen"

German: Wagner - "Tristan %26amp; Isolde", "Parsifal", "Tanhueser"

these are just a few examples of great and well-known operas to get you started. I personally prefer Wagner's works to anything else, but that's a preference thing. Hope this helped!
Congratulations! You are venturing into a truly DIVINE form of artistic expression.

Here are some arias (operatic songs) that are worth getting to know:

Doretta's Aria, Chi Il Bel Sogno - from La Rondine by Puccini

Largo Al Factotum - from Barber of Seville by Rossini

Dome Epais (also known as the Lakme duet) - from Lakme by Delibes

Der Holle Rache (the Queen of the Night's Vengeance Song) - from The Magic Flute by Mozart

Enjoy!