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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (8023)	7/3/2000 11:22:27 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

I adored Room With a View!!!!!!! The arias used in the movie were both Puccini, from different operas. One was the very familiar, "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi which is not really a love song, though it is so often played as one in backgrounds. It's a song sung by a daughter to her father begging him to let her marry a guy or she'll throw herself into the River Arno. The opera (which is only a one-act and part of a tryptych) is very funny, so if you see it sung dramatically or too seriously, imo, it's not being contextually true. The other is less well-known, and is from La Rondine but I think the aria is one of Puccini's loveliest- again sung by a young girl, Doretta. (it's called Doretta's Song, Chi il bel sogno di doretta They are both sung in the movie by Kiri te Kanawa and so you might find them on a CD of her Puccini recordings.