Una furtiva lagrima
I was haunted by this aria featured in Divorzio all'italiana because I remembered being affected strongly by it before very recently. So I looked it up, and found out that it was also featured in Match Point.
What a coincidence!
Two things of note:
1. The aria, to me, sounds like it's just seeped in sadness; but the opera from which it came, L'Elisir d'amore, is actually a comedy.
2. This aria of sadness and comedy has (at least) twice been used as the soundtrack of monster assholes - who by themselves, are neither sad nor comic.
And then the recollection hit me that I know nothing about opera, and I should seek to remedy that asap. But the difficulty about opera is access ($$$ + what city you're in + what this season's reperatoire is) and quality control (no definitive editions or recordings), so i'm not sure how I'm going to start this project. Eh, it may never happen.
What a coincidence!
Two things of note:
1. The aria, to me, sounds like it's just seeped in sadness; but the opera from which it came, L'Elisir d'amore, is actually a comedy.
2. This aria of sadness and comedy has (at least) twice been used as the soundtrack of monster assholes - who by themselves, are neither sad nor comic.
And then the recollection hit me that I know nothing about opera, and I should seek to remedy that asap. But the difficulty about opera is access ($$$ + what city you're in + what this season's reperatoire is) and quality control (no definitive editions or recordings), so i'm not sure how I'm going to start this project. Eh, it may never happen.
posted by Rex at 2:26 AM
1 Comments:
it's haunting me , too. I knew this aria a long time ago. But it was after I watched Match Point that it started to haunt me. That was a month ago, but yerstersay I heard a very different version tand then i searched videos about it on youtube. Now I can almost remember the lyrics because I listened too many times.
ps. I have one version on co, but I prefer it to be sung in same other ways.
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