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{{Short description|Compilation album by Café del Mar}}
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| name       = Café del Mar Aria
| type       = compilation
| artist     = Paul Schwartz
| cover      = Cafe Del Mar Aria 2.jpg
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| released   = 1997, 1999, 2005
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| genre      = [[Ambient music|Ambient]]
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| label      = [[Astor Place (label)|Astor Place]]
| producer   = Paul Schwartz
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'''''Café del Mar Aria''''' is a CD compilation series that combines [[chill-out music]] with [[opera]] [[aria]]s, thereby expanding the existing ''[[Café del Mar]]'' series. The ''Café del Mar'' concept originated from the "sunset bar" with the same name in [[Sant Antoni de Portmany]] on the Mediterranean island of [[Ibiza]]. ''Café del Mar Aria'' is produced by [[Paul Schwartz (composer)|Paul Schwartz]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/aria-vol-2-new-horizon-mw0000253409|title = Aria, Vol. 2: New Horizon - Paul Schwartz &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823190341/http://www.allmusic.com/album/aria-vol-2-new-horizon-mw0000253409|archive-date=August 23, 2013|website = [[AllMusic]]|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Aria Volume 1, 1997 ==
# "Willow" (from [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi's]] ''[[Otello]]'')
# "Un Bel Di" (from [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini's]] ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'')
# "[[Una furtiva lagrima|Secret Tear]]" (from [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti's]] ''[[L'elisir d'amore]]'')
# "Dido" (from [[Henry Purcell|Purcell's]] ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'')
# "Pace Pace" (from Verdi's ''[[La forza del destino]]'')
# "Pamina Blue" (from [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart's]] ''[[The Magic Flute]]'')
# "[[Habanera (aria)|Habanera]]" (from [[Georges Bizet|Bizet's]] ''[[Carmen]]'')
# "Home" (from Verdi's ''[[Nabucco]]'')
== Aria Volume 2, 1999 – ''New Horizon'' ==
# "Arianna" (from [[Claudio Monteverdi|Monteverdi's]] ''L'Arianna'')
# "Ebben" (from [[Alfredo Catalani|Catalani's]] ''[[La Wally]]'')
# "Addio" (from Verdi's ''[[La traviata]]'')
# "Horizon" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Barcarolle" (from [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach's]] ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'')
# "Cantilena" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Sviraj (Lullabye)" (Clair Marlo, Paul Schwartz)
# "Interlude" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Pavane" ([[Gabriel Fauré|Fauré]])
# "Ave Maria" ([[Giulio Caccini|Caccini's]] "[[Ave Maria (Vavilov)|Ave Maria]]")
# "Leiermann" (from [[Franz Schubert|Schubert's]] ''[[Winterreise]]'')
# "Lullabye (Sviraj)" (Clair Marlo, Paul Schwartz)
== Aria Volume 3, 2004 – ''Metamorphosis'' ==
# "[[Ombra mai fu]]" (from [[George Frideric Handel|Handel's]] ''[[Serse]]'')
# "Furioso" (Sarabande by Handel)
# "Sogno" (from Puccini's ''[[La rondine]]'')
# "Metamorphosis 2 – Danae" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Ballo" (from Verdi's ''[[Un ballo in maschera]]'')
# "Interlude" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Amami" (from Verdi's ''La traviata'')
# "[[Lascia ch'io pianga|Lascia]]" (from Handel's ''[[Rinaldo (opera)|Rinaldo]]'')
# "Farewell" (from Puccini's ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'')
# "Metamorphosis 3 – Cyane" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Ascension" (from Monteverdi's ''[[L'incoronazione di Poppea]]'')
# "Metamorphosis 1 – Arachne" (Paul Schwartz)
# "Furioso (Instrumental Mix)" (Sarabande by Handel)
# "Ombra (Chilled Mix)" (from Handel's ''Serse'')
==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.cafedelmarmusic.com/ Café del Mar official site]
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