lol wut

I used to sing this in an Italian restaurant- I would tell my customers it is about a slut having her fun with a poor boy. People like scandal. It was my most requested tune.

Italian teenage girls were often taught this song by mothers, partlyfor the sheer joy of singing but also because the words contain a kind of advice or message for young teens as they approach womanhood, courting, love etc and men paying attention to them. The message, basically, is that you don't have to love a young man simply because he fancies you. Justbecause you happen to like one particular beautiful male flower doesn't mean you have to dismiss all the rest of the masculine flowers... It's actually a female flirtatious song, with a bit of a cruel sting in it, warning young suitors to beware because the girl singing this song, in the first person, is desired by many and so she is under no obligation to love you in return, just because you have feelings for her. Actually, it is subtly derogatory because she is singing her song to a young shepherd who is in love with herand basicay saying that, if he thinks sheshould love him back, simply because he loves her, then he must be a very gullible fool, an absolute sucker for pain and emotional misery and she feels sorry for him. Italian society has no need for finism because, even when this old song was composed, it was a very matriarchal society, where women call the shots inlove, but the guys can always try their luck and, maybe, someone might accept them as their lover. But, I suspect thelady inthis song was hoping to do better than a humble shepherd, for a suitor.... Maybe she was a gold digger? But most likely, just young and flitatious and wanting to sample love's smorgasbord of suitors.

@@rainashay It would be great for a flirty pretty female who could put on all the flirty airs and graces.... Preferably blonde and sexy, showing a bit of cleavage, with long skirt, heaps of frills and lace and waving a fan... The kind a woman holds in her hand, not her fanny, though...

I agree it should be flirty and playful not solemn. The dark gloomy lighting here doesn't help much either but I guess it was part of a recital.

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I do indeed hope you get your freedom friend. Maybe one day it won't be like this. Oppressive and destructive. Maybe one day freedom will be everywhere.

Yunus Nadi Erdal give cyprus back, asses

This guy is beautiful.

Yunus Nadi Erdal this is not true. Please stop presenting yourself as a middle east country !!

Same! I sang it in college and had so much fun hearing it again!

same

I've just started learning it, she told me not to bother with the Italian for now... Naaaaaaaaaaaaaah 😆

I learned that song before this one!!! Weird right? 😅

***** Its funny, my voice teacher taught that one to my friend (we take lessons under the same person) it was really pretty ^^

Caro Mio Ben is used all around the globe as an introduction to classical singing, it was my first song too :)

she is a mezzo-soprano :)

carolina radiolina I see, I could tell her voice was different, but didn't really know! Thanks for the info :)

Perla Manrique ** She is a fabulous angel!!!!

This will be my first aria too, 8 years after this comment. I think it will be really fun to work on it.

kinddove That's good! Classical is very fun to do, I've been learning classical for a few years and I quite enjoy it. Have fun and best of luck to you with this song

I want to hear it!!!!!!

Please do not sound like her! Much too throaty for my taste. Above all you should sound like you, who else?

@@singhsinga4592 she's not even slightly ingolata? As a genuine question, at what point was she throaty? Perhaps I missed it because I'm so in love with her voice...

TheGkizz in my opinion, they are interpreting her voice type as a vocal technique. She is a deeper mezzo, probably even could be an alto. To an untrained ear that sounds throaty, she just has thicker vocal folds.

keady rascona omg meeee I don’t know how I’m gonna do this

lmfao

Omg hahahahhahah

SAME LMAO

Got told by my teacher to sing this too, I'm a tenor so it's not so hard in the singing part.. just the notes! Such s beautiful piece too

Divina Cecilia bartoli

Thank you!

I like her utterly frivolous, whimsical reason for discarding the rose flower she had previously chosen...Because it has thorns...

You are my lord and savior

😍😍😍😍😍😍

Yeah. Well I can tell u in 10 years your Im going to wish I was in that library listening to the vinyl of this

Love her. I sang this arietta for my HSC.

Eugh is spelled ugh genius

I love too

Who fucking cares

Did you get in?

@@tiannamiller2403 stfu you're probably some jealous kid

So wunderschöne

Fellow MO! Learning this now and I’m so excited

Emanuel Mallory Because it's beautiful. Beauty can overwhelm the senses and cause one to cry. It's just a thing that happens, and that's the true beauty of art my friend.

@@annasophia2826 That's the thing. It isn't about the lyrics. It's about how it makes you feel. And how she expresses it.

@@annasophia2826 no she isn't.. and they're not morbid. She's saying she's very touched by him saying he loves her, and that's very nice, but he mustn't assume that he's the only one for her and she's still going to go out with other men too.

She isn't a Soprano.

It is definitely one of my favorites! It was the first Italian Art Song I ever learned in 1990. I went on to get a Bachelors and Masters in Voice. I was HOOKED! Best decision ever!

How did it go?