YouTube videos and recordings for practicing the opera and Broadway choruses

Below is a collection of YouTube videos corresponding to the set of Ron's arrangements of popular choruses from opera and Broadway.  Some of the videos come from Holywood movies, some from special concerts, and others from recordings.

These are for you to practice the notes and the pronunciation.  

For the most part Ron's arrangements follow closely the performances below - but not always.  

Keep in mind that each conductor can approach their piece differently.  Do not assume that Ron will replicate the tempi, dynamics, emphasis, breathing, etc. of the performances represented below.

As always in rehearsal and our performances -- FOLLOW THE CONDUCTOR.

Sorry for the obnoxious ads at the beginning of many of these YouTube videos.

Note: if you are using the Safari web browser on an Apple Mac, some of the images rendered below say "Video unavailable".   Ignore that and click on "Watch on YouTube" to bring up the video in YouTube.

Order of the videos (also the concert order)

1. Va Pensiero from Nabuccco Giuseppe Verdi

2. Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Misérables    Claude-Michel Schönberg

3. Bring Him Home from Les Misérables    Claude-Michel Schönberg

4. Humming Chorus from Madama Butterfly Giacomo Puccini

5. Viens dans ce séjour paisible from Orpheé et Euridice   C. W. von Gluck

6. South Pacific Mash-Up from South Pacific Richard Rogers

7. Regina Cœli from Cavalleria Rusticana  Pietro Mascagni

8. Put on Your Sunday Clothes from Hello Dolly J. Herman, S. Coleman

9. Evening Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel Englebert Humperdinck

10. You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel Rogers & Hammerstein

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1. Va Pensiero from a 2013 concert by Coro e Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera of Rome; Riccardo Muti conducting.

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1. Va Pensiero from a 2002 performance of Nabuccco at the NY Metropolitan Opera.  (Please excuse the subtitles in Spanish.)

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2. Do You Hear the People Sing?  from the 2012 film: Les Misérables.  (The lad on the right is Middletown's own Aaron Tveit.)

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3. Bring Him Home from 25th Anniversary Concert of  Les Misérables (2010).

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4. Humming Chorus (Coro a bocca chiusa) from Madama Butterfly. Madame Butterfly waits for the ship of her beloved Pinkerton to come. In fact her death comes closer. Performed by the Hungarian State Opera.

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5. Viens dans ce séjour paisible  from a 1996 recording of Orpheé et Euridice by the chorus and orchestra of the San Francisco Opera.  

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6. There is Nothing Like A Dame  from the 1958 film South Pacific with Mitzi Gaynor, Rossano Brazzi, Ray Walston, and more.

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6. I'm Gonna Wash Than Man Right Out Of My Hair from the same 1958 film South Pacific

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7. Regina Cœli from the 1982 movie by Franco Zeffirelli: Cavalleria Rusticana.

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8. Put on Your Sunday Clothes from the original soundtrack to the 1994 movie Hello Dolly.

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9. Evening Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel.  Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade in concert in 2008(?).

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9. Evening Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel. Sophie Bevan, soprano, and Hanna Hipp, mezzo, at the Royal Opera House.

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10. You'll Never Walk Alone from the finale of film Carousel (1956) featuring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones.

Please send suggestions about other recorded pieces to your webmeister: cholmes@warwickvalleychorale.org