Getting sophisticated this Sunday morning, here's Floor Jansen performing O Mio Babbino Caro.
Translates to, "oh my dear papa" and is Lauretta trying to convince her father to let her marry Rinuccio. She gets a little dramatic whilst pleading with her father and goes through all the usual tricks, pleading, begging, bargaining, threatening.
"E se l’amassi indarno,
Andrei sul Ponte Vecchio,
Ma per buttarmi in Arno!"
"And if my love were in vain,
I would go to the Ponte Vecchio
And throw myself in the Arno!" - the Ponte Vecchio is a bridge in Florence over the river Arno.
It's the most famous aria from Puccini's one-act opera Gianni Schicchi.
That tune. Ive heard it loads before but didn't realise it was that track! Finally! Trying to Google " hey what's that song that goes, baaah bah bah baah ba baaah" is unsurprisingly void of useful results.🤣
Victory Sunday! Even though it isn't a well deserved victory Sunday, we will take it. Found this tune that might be apt for the 49ers performance yesterday.