I tried to think of something really lovely to post. Just lovely. I didn't set out to think of something sad, I'm not a fan of sadness, but sometimes life is sad, and sometimes the expression of that sadness is remarkably lovely. So here we have a song about love, the story of Lauretta, a girl in Florence who is asking her father to approve of her lover. She tells her father that if she can't have this love, she will jump from the Ponte Vecchio into the river Arno.
In this two minute video , Maria Callas, lover of Aristotle Onassis for years before he married Jacqueline Kennedy, reveals some of the sensitive and volatile temperament that marked her life.
Aria from the opera "Gianni Schicchi" by Giacomo Puccini.
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Don't forget that Gianni Schicchi is part of Il Trittico, which is the La Scala opera showing at the Beach on 5/22! Don't know who's singing. Also, this aria is used SO effectively in one of the most romantic first kisses on film, in Room With A View...
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