What is the absolute most depressing, dark, sad, and dramatic opera song that you've ever heard

I'm making a mix cd for my boyfriend, and I know that he loves these types of songs. Thing is, I don't know very many opera song titles. Help?

What is the absolute most depressing, dark, sad, and dramatic opera song that you've ever heard?ms stress

Mozart's Requiem. (one of the best and saddest pieces of music ever written)

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One of the best operas I have seen was Les Miserables ;) it has both depressing, dark and dramatic songs in its score.

Dramatic

At the End of the Day - description of the poor's anger at the Richer upper class's exploitation of the worker and how their life is meaningless.

Do You Hear the People Sing? - Revolutionary song sung as the ABC school boys prepare to fight.

One Day More - My favorite song in the Opera, it is sung the night before the barricade revolution attempt - all cast sing in this one song.

Dark

Dog Eats Dog - An evil pimp/criminal/former innkeeper stealing possessions from dead men when the die during the revolution, his explanation is that the situation in the world is 'Dog eat dog'.

Sad

On My Own - A song of unwanted love and loneliness in a cruel world.

Come To Me (Fantine's Death) -Young death of a mother turned prostitute and her worries for her young child.

Hope this helps TSD :-)
i don't know about opera. but what about sufjan stevens stuff like the seer's tower.
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does he like different languages?

Carmen, La Traviata,Die Fledermaus,Susannah

Goyescas An Opera by Enrique Granados

La Juive An Opera by Jacques Fran?ois Hal茅vy

Mozart Opera - Lucio Silla

Elegy for Young Lovers Henze Opera- Hans Werner Henze's Elegie f眉r Junge

Elektra, a German tragic opera by Richard Strauss

Richard Strauss's - Salome

Norma 鈥?Bellini
The funeral march from Wagner's Siegfried. Also, find a recording of Rondine al Nido with Pavarrati singing.
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Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. It's more rock opera though.
Michael Crawford singing Phantom of the Opera - other singers were good but noone can match Crawfords expressiveness