Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs is a 1991 opera by Michael Nyman that began as an opera-ballet titled La Princesse de Milan choreographed by Karine Saporta.
The title is derived from Caliban's line, "This isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, which give delight and hurt not."
It premiered in June 1991 in Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Calvados, France, with the L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie conducted by Dominique Debart.
Nyman and Saporta collaborated on Prospero's Books, Peter Greenaway's film version of The Tempest, and were interested in working further with the play.
If the Ariel songs were included (which Nyman says nothing about doing in the liner notes, and the music as recorded does not necessarily pause), "Come Unto These Yellow Sands" and "Full Fathom Five" would come between sections 4 and 5, "While You Here Do Snoring Lie" between sections 8 and 9, "Come and Go" immediately before "The Masque," and "Where the Bee Sucks" just before "Behold, sir King" as divided on the album, based on the order of the text in the play.
Section 13, however, is spread over three tracks, "You do look, my son, in a moved sort", "At last I left them", and "At this hour lie at my mercy."