Flower duet or that one from Madame butterfly - un Bel di? One fine day in English anyway. Famously used in the Simpsons for Barney's entrant to the Springfield film festival.
It's not often that I recommend an Henglish aria, but Dido's Lament by Purcell is unbelievable beauty. Dedicated to my late Greyhound Chewy. https://youtu.be/jOIAi2XwuWo
summertime - by George Gershwin (lyrics DuBose and Dorothy Heyward) plenty of choices for the cover. Janis Joplin, ellie Fitzgerald, billie holiday, mahalia Jackson and of course the fun boy three.
Flower Duet but also Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman ever since saw the Italian film Life is Beautiful about the child in the concentration camp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u0M4CMq7uI
The Habanera is always a classic. A little cliche, but as entrance arias go, it's immense. The descending chromatic motif is characteristic of - and defining of, in music of the era - women, and sexiness, and ooh-la-la, and heat, and passion. Banging tune. Here it is:
So many great choices, even the dodgy penalty aria by Ronaldo... This next one is from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner. not an aria, but PaddyP17 will be able to explain the significance of the 'Tristan Chord' to western music. For me this piece of music is heaven. Written by a C_ _ t... https://youtu.be/fktwPGCR7Yw
So many great choices, even the dodgy penalty aria by Ronaldo... This next one is from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner. not an aria, but PaddyP17 will be able to explain the significance of the 'Tristan Chord' to western music. For me this piece of music is heaven. Written by a C_ _ t... https://youtu.be/fktwPGCR7Yw
What a piece of music this is. For me though, I always go to the Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin. Shame that such a massive wanker wrote such beautiful stuff:
As for the Tristan chord - what a phenomenon that is. I can't give a quick summary without missing lots and lots of interesting stuff out - I wish I could, but it's such a significant step in how harmony came to be approached and understood that it necessitates article-length analysis at the least. I'll try and sum up the key points though.
It's not an unusual chord, but the context in which it is placed makes it special. Basically, those four notes come out of nowhere. The musical movement leading up to it is fairly harmonically conventional, and then BAM the Tristan chord comes in. There's no real relationship to what preceded it, and the dramatic pause after the chord emphasises the fact.
Music theorists loved it. It effectively opened the gateway to atonality - which means music without a set key, effectively, and no identifiable harmonic base. Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg is a good example.
Hope I've done a decent enough job there, but the Wikipedia article is much more informative.
https://youtu.be/t936rzOt3Zc 
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Puccini could write a banging tune!
O Fortuna-Carl Orff-Carmina Burana
Classic CL too.
Talking of which I love the use of Nessun Dorma in this Pirelli advert which predates Italia 90 which "popularised" this aria
E lucevan le stelle hard to beat.
What about Sull'aria from the Marriage of Figaro (as in Shawshank Redemption)?
This next one is from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Wagner. not an aria, but PaddyP17 will be able to explain the significance of the 'Tristan Chord' to western music.
For me this piece of music is heaven.
Written by a C_ _ t...
As for the Tristan chord - what a phenomenon that is. I can't give a quick summary without missing lots and lots of interesting stuff out - I wish I could, but it's such a significant step in how harmony came to be approached and understood that it necessitates article-length analysis at the least. I'll try and sum up the key points though.
It's not an unusual chord, but the context in which it is placed makes it special. Basically, those four notes come out of nowhere. The musical movement leading up to it is fairly harmonically conventional, and then BAM the Tristan chord comes in. There's no real relationship to what preceded it, and the dramatic pause after the chord emphasises the fact.
Music theorists loved it. It effectively opened the gateway to atonality - which means music without a set key, effectively, and no identifiable harmonic base. Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg is a good example.
Hope I've done a decent enough job there, but the Wikipedia article is much more informative.