Celebrating National Classical Music Month: Evans's Top 10 American Opera Arias

September is National Classical Music Month! To celebrate, Cincinnati Opera’s Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Evans Mirageas rounded up his top 10 American opera excerpts. Happy listening!

1. “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

2. “The Willow Song” from Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe

3. “Must the winter come So soon?” from Samuel Barber’s Vanessa

4. “A Quality Love” from Richard Danielpour’s Margaret Garner

5. “Peculiar Grace” from Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones

6. “To this We’ve Come” from Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul

7. “Ain’t it a pretty night?” from Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah

8. “Our Very Own Home” from Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers

9. “A Weekend in the Country” from Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music

10. “Listen to the Rain” from Marc Blitzstein’s Regina