Since it is National Opera Week, after all, I've posted the Italian lyrics and English translation of Violetta's aria "Sempre Libera" from Verdi's opera, La Traviata. I first heard this aria about twelve years ago, sung non other by the great Dame Joan Sutherland. Do you remember the first time you heard "Sempre Libera"?
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Hmm, when I was probably still in elementary, I was a nut for the Italian Opera’s back then. I’ve matured now to the German and French Operas, however. The Italian ones can be abit thick, no?
This past summer I had a music appreciation class, and I was totally entranced by a video tape of a woman singing this (as part of the full opera). It was my first time.
I first heard it by La Divina, Maria Callas, and it remains a favorite to this day.