Any opera buffs can help....?

[fotografics]

I'm looking for a song from an opera. Now to try and describe it...

It is very, very sad. Violins (strings) play a slow, melancholy piece and then a voice speaks, mourning and then angry. I think it's about someone dying and I think it might be La Traviata or Boheme but can't find it anywhere.

Any ideas.

[Mortartube]

I know of a piece with no speech. You might try Siegfrieds Funeral March by Wagner. A possibility

[fotografics]

Nope, it's definitely from an opera. A really tragic piece and the strings part is sometimes used in TV as a soft, sad background music.

[Filbert]

Is it the tune that Simon Bates used to use on his programme on radio 1? I think it was called our tune or something like that. (His prog not the music)

[Eeneymush]

Sounds like a Stabat Mater but whos????

Soz can't help

Neeny

[squarebear]

If it's the Simon Bates tune, that was the score of Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet.

[fotografics]

Thanks for the answers but, nope it isn't Stabat Mater (as far as I know but it's along that sort of style) and it's not that awful tune from radio one.

It's hard to describe but it's a very soft strings piece, very slow, lots of pathos, followed by a s�ngle singer, almost speaking.