Add Montserrat Caballé to these two and you have my current favorite opera singers - my 3Ms. "Donde Lieta Uscì", performed by Mirella Freni and Maria Callas, were such tasty holiday treats?. ❤️ If you enjoyed this selection, hit the heart to like it. Thank you again for listening and coming along on this journey so far, ? Did we miss something important about this opera that you think the community should know? Please tell us in the comments! Maria Callas has a beautiful interpretation of “Donde Lieta Uscì”
I know why this is: you do not want to tell me of your anguish,Ī member shared in the comments a full version of La Bohème from La Scala in 1979 conducted by Carlos Kleiber. So the scent of desire is all around me, it makes me happy!Īnd you who know, who remembers and yearns, you shrink from me? People stop and stare and examine my beautyįrom head to toe and then I savor the cravingsĪnd from the obvious charms they perceive the hidden beauties. This is a famous aria and so there are many interpretations floating around out there! Here are several if you are curious: Anna Netrebko, Kiri Te Kanawa, Anna Moffo, and Angela Gheorghiu. Musetta attempts to make her boyfriend Marcello jealous and sings how everyone always notices her beauty when she goes out. It’s very well known, especially amongst young sopranos. “Quando m’en vo” (also known as “Musetta's Waltz”) is another famous aria sung by Musetta (soprano) in the time signature of a waltz. That struggling artists are at the core of this opera makes it all the more poignant, since we know that the pandemic has inflicted enormous damage upon creatives and performers affiliated with the arts. It is a perfect choice for this coronavirus Christmas season when poverty, love, grief and loss have been magnified for so many. Having heard only the more famous arias, but never having seen the whole opera, "La Bohème" touched me on so many levels. I loved that a member in the comments, though reminded me of some other important reasons why this week’s selection was so appropriate. La Bohème felt like a perfect selection for this week, given Act I happens on Christmas Eve. Mimì is very ill, though.īetween the ideals of love and art and the cold winters, jealous feelings, and no money, two couples try to find their way. Mimì lives in the apartment next door, but none of the men have met her yet (but Rodolfo will, of course meet her and soon fall in love). Marcello has recently broken up with his girlfriend, Musetta. To recap, Rodolfo, Marcello, Schaunard, and Colline share a cramped attic apartment in Paris.
If you missed the first post in this series where we covered Act I's arias, you could find it here.