In order to fully comprehend this scene we need to remember that every episode/case is a parallel to Will and Hannibal.
In that episode in particular we are following along organ harvesters. When Will does his thing and sees the crime, he puts his hands inside the victim, grabbing his heart, literally, in his hands.
This is also the Opera episode, first time we see Hannibal crying/getting emotional.
The banner for the concert says "Hunger Relief".
The Aria is called Piangeró La Sorte Mia. The performer gave an interview during quarantine, talking about her role on the show and how she actually choose this Aria, because in this scene, where most people aren't looking at Hannibal, the mask can slip and he can finally show the heart that he has. She says that the scene shows that he is capable of love and perhaps starting to have feelings for Will.
The story is about Cleopatra and Cesar, in the act she's singing, Cleopatra has been imprisoned and believes her beloved Cesar is dead. She's expressing sorrow and then moves to anger and desire for revenge (foreshadowing the next episode, "I was worried you were dead").
Translation:
I will cry my destiny,
so cruel and so unfortunate, as long as I live in my chest (as my heart beats). But then the tyrant is dead all around, and night and day in the ghost, I will stir.
And as we all know, the show loves to parallel Tobias and Franklyn to Will and Hanninal, and in this episode Hannibal contemplates Franklyn's comments on Tobias and immediately presumes Franklyn's sexually interested in Tobias. When he denies, Hannibal suggests "you care deeply about him, he's your best friend, but you're not his". All of these assumptions are made because Franklyn said he loved cheese, it was his passion, but Tobias didn't like dairy. Wink, wink.
Right after this scene, where it ends with Franklyn talking about loneliness and it being a "dull ache", we have the iconic Lacrimosa scene with Hannibal waiting alone for Will who is late to his appointment (by a few minutes), prompting Hannibal to drive two hours to go find him. As one does.
With all of that being said, Hannibal notices how Will is staring at him in that scene, and averts his eyes almost immediately. Will makes the connection of the beginning of the episode where he saw himself shoving his hands inside a person. This is the same act, he's watching it now live, in front of him. Whatever he felt while doing that, he's realizing that Hannibal is a manifestation of it (while his was just imagination). While being the positive opposite: he was seeing himself kill someone, while Hannibal was saving someone, with essentially the same act. Which is super hot.
After all of this, Will gives Hannibal a "nice bottle of wine", but doesn't stay for his fancy dinner. "You sure you can't stay?" "I wouldn't be good company." "I disagree." Oh, the dull ache.
This is also the episode where Will described the Ripper as "one of those pitiful things sometimes born in hospitals". Oh, oh, the dull ache.
Pitiful thing is moved by Cleopatra's grief. Pitiful thing loves cheese but his best friend doesn't. Pitiful thing wonders if he desires his friend sexually. Pitiful thing has many people around him, wanting to enjoy the fancy things he provides, but the one whose company he craves the most can't stay. Pitiful thing is lonely.
Pitiful thing's heart is being squeezed by his friend's hands.
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