Baba’s Aria from The Medium, a short two-act dark dramatic opera by Gian Carlo Menotti. The opera’s first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti’s The Telephone at the Heckscher Theater in New York City in 1947 by the Ballet Society.

“Urlicht,” Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler

Florence expresses her frustration with Lady B!

 National Annual Combat Veterans Ride : National Anthem Sung by Martha Anderson

Erda’s warning to Wotan in Wagner’s Das Rheingold.  Erda rises from the earth to give a warning to Wotan and the rest of the gods. She cautions that if Wotan continues to have anything to do with the magic all-powerful Ring of the Nibelungs, the gods will be eventually thrown from power.

From Il Trovatore. Azucena, the daughter of the Gypsy burned to death by the Count, is still haunted by her duty to avenge her mother, “Stride la Vampa” (the flames are roaring)!