G. Puccini - O mio babbino caro - Anna Netrebko
| O mio babbino caro,
mi piace, è bello, bello.
Vo’andare in Porta Rossa
a comperar l’anello!
Si, si, ci voglio andare!
E se l’amassi indarno,
andrei sul Ponte Vecchio,
ma per buttarmi in Arno!
Mi struggo e mi tormento,
O Dio, vorrei morir!
Babbo, pietà, pietà!
Babbo, pietà, pietà!
| Oh my dear father,
I like him, he is very handsome.
I want to go to Porta Rossa
to buy the ring!
Yes, yes, I want to go there!
And if my love were in vain,
I would go to Ponte Vecchio
and throw myself in the Arno!
I am pining and I am tormented,
Oh God, I would want to die!
Daddy, have mercy, have mercy!
Daddy, have mercy, have mercy!
| Editor's Note:
I guess you all knew pretty well about this song and possibly about the singer.
To me, I knew the song but this is the first time to see and listen to Anna Netrebko.
Just in case you didn't, I am adding a few notes from the Wikipedia about the song and singer.
She's not only beautiful but her performance is absolutely fascinating in this video!
Just look at her facial expressions, neck movements, shrugging shoulders, arms and hands movements, and other body languages according to the lyrics of the song. As an opera singer, her wonderful performance touches our hearts. So, here is a new webpage, painstakingly composed by getting out of my usual laziness, for you and me.
One thing for sure, we might have run out of beautful classic songs as they don't seem to make such things any more. However, I guess, we never run out of lovely and beautiful sopranos.
If you don't usually play in the operatic world, here's another one I belatedly found recently. - WM | "O mio babbino caro"
"Oh My Beloved Father" is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy she loves, have reached a breaking point that threatens to separate her from Rinuccio. It provides an interlude expressing lyrical simplicity and single-hearted love in contrast with the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing, and feuding in the medieval Florence of Puccini's only comedy. It provides the only set-piece in the through-composed opera. The aria was first performed at the premiere of Gianni Schicchi on 14 December 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York by the popular Edwardian English soprano Florence Easton. It has been sung subsequently by many sopranos. Dame Joan Hammond won a Gold Record in 1969 for 1 million sold copies of this aria. The aria is frequently performed in concerts and as an encore in recitals by many popular and crossover singers. It is used in several films, and some bands cover the aria in their own style.
| Anna Yuryevna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko (Russian: Анна Юрьевна Нетребко, born 18 September 1971) is a Russian operatic soprano. She now holds dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and currently resides in Vienna, Austria and in New York City. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar (Russia), in a family of Kuban Cossack background. While a student at the Saint Petersburg conservatoire, Netrebko worked as a janitor at Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. Later, she auditioned for the Mariinsky Theatre, where conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from her prior work in the theatre. He subsequently became her vocal mentor. Under Gergiev's guidance, Netrebko made many prominent roles with the Kirov Opera, including Amin in "La sonnambula", Pamina in "Die Zauberflöte", Rosina in "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", and Lucia in "Lucia di Lammermoor". In 1994, she sang the Queen of the Night in "Die Zauberflöte" with the Riga Independent Opera Avangarda Akadēmija under conductor David Milnes.In March 2006, Netrebko applied to become an Austrian citizen, receiving her citizenship in late July. According to an interview in the Austrian weekly news, she will live in Vienna and Salzburg. Netrebko cites the cumbersome and humiliating process of obtaining visas (as a Russian citizen) for her many performances abroad as the main reason for obtaining Austrian citizenship. In 1995, at the age of 24, Netrebko made her American debut as Lyudmila in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila at the San Francisco Opera. In 2002, Netrebko made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Natasha in the Met premiere of War and Peace. Netrebko performed the olympic anthem at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, near her native Krasnodar. | | Webpage and Youtube Video composed with data from the Internet by SNUMA WM - July 21, 2015 |
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Anna Netrebko started as a janitor in the opera house.
As she gained enormous fame and wealth, she got into a problem of obesity.
(Shall I say weight gain.)
Here, by changing the ratio of height and width of the video,
I made sure that our super prima donna appear lean and tall,
so that you guys fall in love with her.
I do not know how she is nowadays.
In a picture of 2013, she was much wider than you see in the webpage.
The moral of the story is not to believe everything you see in a picture or video.
The webpage-video maker has the total control of what appears on your screen.
However, her voice, performance, and artistic expressions have never been touched. What you see and hear are what they were then.