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38 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 21 Jan 2024 \ on: Daily Discussion Thread ~Music Saloon Music
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.
Hope you enjoy.