Heinz Walberg and Nello Santi conducting. Gaetano Scano (1945-1988) was born in the Venetian Region, which has been prolific with excellent singers. Nicola Martinucci (1941), a native of Puglia Region, has sung Radames throughout the world. Verdi intended, according to his biographers, this aria to be a simple and romantic declaration of love with delicate musical notations ("dolce", "dolcissimo", "pppp", "ppp", "pp", "p" and just one time "f" in the middle of the aria on the word "trono") . As for the final B flat, he wanted it to be "morendo". To be fair, Verdi himself, seeing a tenor straggle to sing the B flat the way it was written, suggested that he sang the note "forte" followed by a repeat, one octave lower, of "vicino al sol", this time "piano".