Mercutio’s aria
Here John is singing the beautifully lyric aria from Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette. Here Mercutio ridicules Romeo for being absent minded and caught up in his dreams, that may just foretell his fate.
Excerpt from Dona Nobis Pacem
Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem is a call for peace, and a promise that humanity is capable in equal parts of both beauty and destruction.