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Weekly Roundup | May 4, 2010

The Top 7
Wagner, “Tannhäuser” overture
Puccini, “Tosca” (Scarpia’s “Te Deum” at the end of Act I)
Strauss, “Salome”– performed by Birgit Nilsson, the beginning of the final scene
Schubert, “Ganymed”
Berg, “Lulu”
Saint-Saëns, “Samson et Dalilah,” “Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix”
David Del Tredici, “My Favorite Penis Poems”

Honorable mentions
Puccini, “Madama Butterfly,” Act I duet
Puccini, “La Rondine,” “Ch’il bel sogno di Doretta”
Mozart, “Don Giovanni,” “La ci darem la mano”

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