Mad Scene - Famous Examples

Famous Examples

George Frideric Handel

  • Orlando ("Ah! stigie larve... Vaghe pupille")

Johann Adolph Hasse

  • Artaserse ("Pallido il sole")

Gaetano Donizetti

  • Lucia di Lammermoor ("Il dolce suono... Ardon gl'incensi... Spargi d'amaro pianto")
  • Linda di Chamounix ("Linda! Ah che pensato")
  • Maria Padilla
  • Torquato Tasso
  • Anna Bolena ("Piangete voi... Al dolce guidami... Coppia iniqua")

Vincenzo Bellini

  • I puritani ("O rendetemi... Qui la voce sua soave... Vien, diletto, e in ciel la luna")
  • Il Pirata ("Cor sorriso d'innocenza... Oh, Sole! ti vela di tenebra fonda")
  • La Sonnambula ("Oh! se una volta sola... Ah! non credea mirarti... Ah! non giunge uman pensiero")

Ambroise Thomas

  • Hamlet ("Partagez-vous mes fleurs")

Giacomo Meyerbeer

  • Dinorah ("Ombra leggiera")

Benjamin Britten

  • Peter Grimes (Mad scene)

Giuseppe Verdi

  • Macbeth ("Una macchia")

Andre Previn

  • A Streetcar named Desire

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