Example Sentences

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Short ariettas and ariosos keep “Serse,” a comic love story, moving along.

From New York Times • May 9, 2022

His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2018