Many years ago I caught a really great, and really odd, movie called "The Music Teacher," which is about an opera legend in his old age, and his two students. The pivotal scene involves a duet of the two students at a competition, and both the movie scene and the song knocked my socks off. However, I know nothing of opera, and neither do most of my friends. So for years I've been trying to find...
Floria Tosca sings this aria to Scarpia about the nobility of being an actress and a human being. This after Scarpia threatens to kill Cavaradossi if she does not submit to him. This is one of Maria Callas’ greatest performances, one which she brings out the deep anguish her character is going through. She takes things into her own hands and kills Scarpia after she gets a written promise from h.
Many years ago I caught a really great, and really odd, movie called "The Music Teacher," which is about an opera legend in his old age, and his two students. The pivotal scene involves a duet of the two students at a competition, and both the movie scene and the song knocked my socks off. However, I know nothing of opera, and neither do most of my friends. So for years I've been trying to find...