Every opera aria containing even a modestly sustained high note brought a roar from the throng.

Here we get highlights from the emotional first performances since it reopened, including opera arias and ballet.

The tenor performs opera arias.

If that helps to attract passing trade for a collection of largely unknown 17th and 18th-century opera arias, well, so be it.

He also made numerous recordings of opera arias.

Somebody in an apartment with a powerful hi-fi system was blasting out the opening to a famous operatic aria.

It all ends in an operatic aria.

Their exhausting speed, the vertiginous falls and turns, are mostly performed in silence, or to faint and crackly operatic arias, half-heard, as though from a radio in the next room.

He made many recordings of operatic arias, duets and scenes.

He's famous for performing both classical operatic arias and pop music songs.

At one point the composer tells his choirboys to sing the aria.

She would try to sing an aria, and he would react and interrupt, with such antics as falling off the bench in surprise when she hit a high note.

I have sung the arias in concerts for a long time already, and it doesn't have a big orchestra.

This allowed anyone to sing the arias themselves.

After a secco recitative, the bass sings an aria over oboe and strings.