Opera lyrics redux

[chickenfeet]

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

Comments

[shezan.livejournal.com]

3. Die Entführung aus dem Serail

[shezan.livejournal.com]

8. Aida?

[shezan.livejournal.com]

9. Orfeo

[damiel.livejournal.com]

Isn't 4, like, EVERY opera?

I will take a guess at number 1 with Das Rheingold and at number 6 with Götterdämmerung.

am totally out of my league here

[fortunatecave.livejournal.com]

but are la boheme, les miserable, madame bouvary part of the line-up?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

I am not taking this quiz, because I am too ignorant.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Bother! I'm sorry I didn't get to see this earlier. I'm glad they haven't all gone; a couple of extra ones:

1. L'incoronazione di Poppea
2. Salome
4. Giulio Cesare

Hmm. I feel as though I should know 7.