I'm apparently in an opera mood right now, so I'm watching things on YouTube. I randomly remembered this hysterical little short I'd seen on PBS way back when I was in high school and thought I'd try to find it. Of course I found it! It's called "All the Great Operas in Ten Minutes" and it's rather amusing:

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I found these from snowowl...a couple of absolutely brilliant operatic performances.

The first one is Diana Damrau as the Queen of the Night in Magic Flute, and the second is Natalie Dessay doing an aria from Lakme...they're just spectacular...