A yearning mezzo-soprano aria for this character features an agitated, syncopated passage in which she describes waiting “at my window, or outside, every day.” This character sings the aria “L’altra notte in fondo al mare” in an 1868 opera composed by the man who wrote the libretto for Verdi’s Otello and Falstaff. This character’s aria “D’amour l’ardente flamme” (“da-MOOR lar-DAHNT FLAHM”) opens Act IV of an opera containing the (*) “Ballet des sylphes” (“bal-AY duh SEELF”). This is the lead female character in both Arrigo Boito’s only completed opera and a Berlioz opera titled for a “Damnation.” This soprano character sings a Jewel Song in an opera by Gounod. For 10 points, name this woman who titles a Schubert song about her “at the spinning wheel” waiting for her lover Faust. ■END■
ANSWER: Marguerite [or Margherita; or Margarethe; accept Gretchen; accept “Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” or “Gretchen am Spinnrade”]
<Ivvone Zhou, Auditory Fine Arts>
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