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Bobby -> RE: Aria (or classical song)... help me choose a new one? (3/26/2008 2:25:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: solo_soprano22
I sang "Vittoria Mio Core" when I was 16... I think. It was sometime in high school. I sang "O Cessate di Piagarmi" too.. but I sang those grace notes and it bugged me at the time. I haven't heard anyone else
A woman says she knows where I can get that version of the "Ave Maria" I talked about in the other thread. She gave me an address, so I'll see.
I'll look at the things you all have mentioned. I wish we could sing "free" songs... Songs that didn't come from an opera. I like "Del Cabello Mas Sutil"... probably because it's rare I run into Spanish classical/art songs, and I speak it anyway. It's pretty though, but simple. Victoria de los Angeles has a good version on youtube. I think Domingo does also.
I've always wanted to sing something out of a Spanish opera, but I only know of one... it's not ugly, but I wish there were more. That one is La Vida Breve... I know there is at least one bit of that on youtube because it's in my favorites.
Great stuff. I hope my teacher will turn up the wick on me and turn operas loose on me (but I'm two years, three months, and a day older than she is; she has older students -- in the 50's!).
Cessate! That's what was not in my brain when I first posted. That's the other song being sent to me by the Mississippi Squirrel (a nickname for the teacher who is from the same hometown as Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-TN).
When you find yourself listening to great classics, your view changes dramatically. After my alma mater was creamed by its rival, and the rival had postseason games while we had nothing, I was so depressed that I said I wanted to take my own life by jumping off the Ponte Vecchio into the Arno. Some wanted me sent to the counselor's, while my voice teacher just laughed because she knew in an instant this tenor had a soprano aria she has sung in the past stuck in his head from an opera earlier in the month!
In three other instances (the worst loss to the rival, which I also lost Thanksgiving dinner and had to starve on the holiday -- no fun at the table when there was no food and others had a fest -- it was worse the ensuing New Year's Day when their party was harassing on me, I thought I'd heard the Losing Horns on an RTL (Radio Television Luxembourg) show -- and even with the colors they were wearing at church, I thought I was an American in Al Qaeda territory.), the 2006 Governor's Cup half-marathon, where my truck broke down on the way from home to the parking lot, and when I tried packet pickup, I was disqualified for being tardy as it had already started by the time I was picked up to the start line, and also when I couldn't run Cooper River Bridge Run XXX because of a race-eve stomach virus that reacted badly where I couldn't even run), I told her I wanted to take my own life, which she promptly responded, "The Consul!". Of course, before what we thought would be our last lesson five years ago (she decided basking herself under the palmetto with her friends and cats was better than living in a suitcase, traveling around the world, so she came back and we signed our deal) she postponed a lesson for a mysterious reason. I later learned it was to do the suicide scene in the Menotti opera (you have to know her to understand why) that caused it, and when my anger goes to the boiling point I'll throw Magda Sorel's suicide because of the lore it has between the two of us.
I'd love to try arias or big scared masterpieces. Each time I attend a biggie ("Seven Last Words of Christ") I am wanting more. That's a good thing for a classical singer who didn't learn the art until 26 (I am 32).
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