"Sola perduta abbandonata"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Manon" from Puccini's Manon Lescaut

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Lyrics from "Sola perduta abbandonata"
Lonely, forsaken and abandoned, forsaken and abandoned! How sad! What cruel dread! I am distracted with grief and terror! And in the heart of this desert I’m dying, what cruel dread, ah! Lonely and abandoned, o wretched hapless woman! Ah! don’t let me die, ah! No, don’t me die! All my hope then is over. I sought this region as a peaceful haven,
I sought this region as a peaceful haven. Ah! through my fatal beauty, torments afresh surround me they would have severed me from him; how all my past haunts me with fearful pangs of anguish and rises straight before my eyes to rend me. Ah! new dangers come to threaten. Ah! all hope is over The tomb can only release me from my burden No, don’t let me die, don’t let me die! No! No! Don’t let me die, help me!

"Mi chamano Mimi"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Mimi" from Puccini's La Boheme

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Lyrics from "Mi chamano Mimi"
Yes. They call me Mimì, but my real name’s Lucia. My story is brief. I embroider silk and satin at home or outside.
I’m tranquil and happy, and my pastime is making lilies and roses. I love all things that have gentle magic, that talk
of love, of spring, that talk of dreams and fancies, the things called poetry. Do you understand me? They call me
Mimì - I don’t know why. I live all by myself and I eat all alone. I don’t often go to church, But I like to pray. I stay all alone in my tiny white room; I look at the roofs and the sky. But when spring comes the sun’s first rays are mine. April’s first kiss is mine, is mine! The sun’s first rays are mine. A rose blossoms in my vase, I breathe its perfume, petal by petal. So sweet is the flower’s perfume. But the flowers I make, alas, The flowers I make, alas, have no
scent. What else can I say? I am your neighbor disturbing you at this impossible hour.

"Ave Maria"
Performed by Eilana Lappalainen in the role as "Desdemona" from Verdi's Otello

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Lyrics from "Ave Maria"
Hail Mary, full of grace, elect art thou among matrons and virgins; may the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, oh blessed one, be blessed. Oh, pray for all who kneel before you in adoration, pray for the sinner, for the innocent, and for the oppressed and weak and for the mighty, wretched also, show thy pity. Pray for all who bow their heads beneath outrage and misfortune. Pray, pray for us always and in the hour of our death, oh, pray for us, pray for us, pray. Hail Mary! ...In the hour of death, hail!… Amen.