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Aria from Diva - Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

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Fernandez sings the aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", from Act I of Catalani's opera "La Wally." The piece is a haunting reverie on the theme of traveling alone and far from home. Catalani died in 1893 of consumption at the age of 39, only a year after the triumphant premiere of "La Wally" at La Scala. This performance plays a prominent role in the 1981 French romantic thriller, "Diva" - and is an excerpt from the DVD. Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, rates the movie 5 stars out of 5. This was one of the most frequently "favorited" videos on BestArts. The opera, based on a German novel, has a libretto by the young Luigi Illica, who went on to collaborate on the texts for "La Boheme," "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly." It tells of a wild, headstrong Swiss mountain girl who loves one local huntsman and is loved by another. Eventually she wins her true love, the pair embraces high in the Alps, an avalanche entombs the hero and she leaps after him to her snowy death. The libretto for the opera is available (in Italian) at http://www.karadar.com/Librett... A plot summary of the opera is available in English at http://www.spikesworld.spike-j... Browse our website at http://www.theBestArts.com for more great dance, music and musical theatre performances!

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: BestArtsFilm

Length: 04:49
Rating: 4.968051
Views: 179794

Tags: Aria  La  Wally  Wilhelmenia  Wiggins  Fernandez  Diva  Film  Opera  Black  BestArts  theBestArts  

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tigalbaby (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Great performance. simply the best.
silvanusslaughter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Terrific through and through!
ericbelify (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
as one-hit wonders go, Catalani hit the bullseye with this one. This is an absolutely magical peice of music.
sonofTelstar (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
An intoxicating opening to a film over-flowing with beautiful moments and scenes and words...my spine shivers every time that I see and hear this....how could you not be drawn into this beautifully sad reverie?...modern French cinema at its zenith..
TheBlizzardcat (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I really liked this rendition. Has anyone heard Maria Callas sing this piece? Do listen please. Thanks for posting. 😃
19davo66 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Qui a vole la robe de la Diva?
19davo66 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@kdavid Exactly how I feel. Amazing story, film, mood - it never gets better than this!
19davo66 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Amazing. she, the music, the film and the memories. x
Bogart1899 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
@bibicool65 J'ai ecoute les versions de Callas et Tebaldi sur YouTube.. Des 3 versions, la version de Callas est de loin la meilleure. Je croix qu'elle chante avec plus d'emotion, ses phrases sont plus nuancees, l'interpretation est tres subtile. En somme, impossible de faire mieux.
zo219 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Love the technology! (Truly a Best Movie.)


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