Schack's pieces include an aria for Nadir that broadly prefigures and seems actually to be quoted in Tamino's "Dies Bildnis," written for Schack by Mozart.
Guanqun Yu, Ms. Zhou's latest discovery, beat scores of other singers to win the 2008 Belvedere competition with a powerful presentation that included an aria from Puccini's "Manon Lescaut".
Speaking of clemency, the production, in the Haus für Mozart, adds a new wrinkle to Silla's transformation by including an aria by Johann Christian Bach from his setting three years later of de Gamerra's libretto, which Mozart omitted.
Correction: November 22, 2003, Saturday A music review on Tuesday about the Richard Tucker Music Foundation gala at Avery Fisher Hall, which included an aria from the opera "Cecilia," misspelled the surname of the composer.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it that, but the work rattles – and occasionally creaks – along with moments of Bellinian brilliance, including an aria later used in his I Capuleti e i Montecchi.
Barenboim conducting Plácido Domingo in the Escorial in Spain (including an aria from Verdi's Don Carlos) is pretty special, too; so is Rattle's programme from Athens in 2004, with Barenboim as soloist in Brahms's First Piano Concerto, followed by one of Rattle's party pieces, Schoenberg's orchestration of the Brahms G minor Piano Quartet.
The role includes a touchstone tenor aria, "Vivi tu," in which the condemned Riccardo implores his friend Lord Rocheford Annaa's brother, here the solid bass-baritone Keith Miller) to evade the king's wrath and go on living.
And as always from this inventive melodist, there are catchy tunes, including a wistful aria for Juanita, the first phrases of which Weill later recycled into "September Song".
Much of the vocal writing is familiar Glassian declamation, but there are some sweetly lyrical touches, too, including a lovely aria for Galileo's daughter, sung affectingly by Alicia Berneche.
Two excerpts were included here, including a turbulent aria called "I'm Scared for My Life," sung with dramatic commitment by Ms. Zetlan, and "I'm only Sixteen," ably sung by the tenor Paul Appleby, another star of the Met's upcoming production.
