Let me take my time to fill you in on the situation at hand and why I came on here to ask for some aid. Both myself and my girlfriend are singers who just attended a vocal seminar for the week where yes, we did work with a coach who mentioned the aria in passing while we were out to lunch with her. We asked where it was from within the opera and we were told in the second act. Being that neither of us has ever sang any Wagner before we went home and listened to the entire second act trying to pin down where exactly it may be. The next step would be to go to the library and take out the score to locate exactly where it is, BUT I figured that it would save some time if I came on here and asked people who are generally kind-hearted enough to help out if anyone could further pin point the location of the scene for me, especially since the library is closed this weekend due to holiday. My girlfriend is planning for a large church seminar in which she has to teach at for the next two weeks and I thought that I would try to be helpful and pull out the aria from the library when I go this week to take out some of my own stuff. It has nothing to do with laziness as much as it does trying to be efficient. If no one had offered where the aria was located in the second act then I would have just taken out the score anyways and searched for it. I don't like to use up my time scouring a score for a particular arioso though when I can just as easily ask people more knowledgeable than myself for some guidance. Time is limited and I don't feel as though I or my girlfriend are being lazy, rather we are using the resources available to us (i.e. this forum). I apparently should not have done this as it has flustered you so, but resources are resources whether they are a library, a coach, or a form of informed singers.
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