Opera lyrics redux

Last year I offered you an opera lyrics quiz so I thought I'd do another one. None of the operas are duplicated from last year.

So, here are ten libretto excerpts, translated into English where that is not the original language. Your task is to identify the operas in question.

1. Ascend, O my beloved. Ascend the highest place of imperial sovereignty

2. Your daughter is monstrous

3. Torture of every kind may await me

4. I shall lament my fate so cruel and so pitiless

5. The wind is from the west, a lazy sea, the sky overcast, a stagnant smell from the lagoon

6. Bravely blended, brotherly love born in the drink from our blood

7. I shall dry these weeping flagstones. With my own lips they shall be dried

8. We return to our lasses like fortunate traders, triumphant with the spoils of the vanquish'd invaders

9. Shepherd cease your singing, for all our gaiety has turned to pain

10. If the water is deep we will swim. If it is too fast we will build boats

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a kitten in possession of shedding fur, must be in want of a pile of clean laundry.

Alms for Oblivion

The utterly fabulous frankie_ecap sent me Simon Raven's The Rich Pay Late. I'm loving it. It seems to cry out for one of those 11+/MENSA type questions; Arms for Oblivion is to A Dance to the Music of Time as The Thick of It is to Yes, Minister. It has the wit, the close social observation of Dance but it's really nasty and squalid. I can see me enjoying the rest of the series a very great deal.