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Challenge: Classical music sing-along songs
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That's basically the entirety of opera!
If you're looking for baroque period like the D's "rock block of Bach," check out G.F. Handel; he wrote a ton of opera and orotorio.
It was customary to perform the operas in Italian, but his most famous piece, the Messiah was written and performed in English like all of his orotorios.
Here's one of the arias from Alcina, his opera about a powerful sorcereress who seduces and traps men on her island by turning them into scenery like bushes and rocks when she's done with them. In this scene, one of the men's fiancee Bradamante comes to the island disguised as a man to rescue him and Alcina's sister falls in love with her.
Edit: here's one you've almost certainly heard from Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen: the Toreador Song.