arias
- plural of aria.
Example Sentences
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“Hercules” is more streamlined than Handel’s operas, and its most dramatic passages—including Hercules’ death and Dejanira’s subsequent mad scene—are written as accompanied recitatives rather than da capo arias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
With his sensitive interpretations, Mr. Costanzo was the standout among the singers, but they all gamely tackled the challenges of their full da capo arias.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
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
Playwright Richard Greenberg was the maestro of shimmering verbal arias.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
It may well be imagined what emotions passed through my breast when I saw Dr. Trefusis’s goal: the comely girl who sang such exquisite arias.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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