You see, I'll start with the most famous operatic piece 'hummed' in history.
La donna e mobile "Rigoletto" - G. Verdi - Christian Ibarra
This aria (2) forms part of the opera (1) "Rigoletto" , Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi .
The premiere took place on March 11, 1851 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play "Le Roi s'amusse" by Victor Hugo.
La donna รจ mobile is sung by the character named "Il Duca di Mantua" (The Duke of Mantua, tenor), a noble libertine, seducer and insensitive to women conquest. After having had an affair with Gilda (virgin daughter Rigoletto, the Duke's hunchbacked jester) is, as usual, forgotten and romancing Maddalena, a barmaid. That is when Duke sing this aria, showing his disdain felt about women.
Lyrics:
DUKE
Woman is fickle as a feather in the wind,
change of ideas and thoughts. His face kind
and charming
both laughter and crying,
is always tricky.
Woman is fickle as a feather in the wind, changes
ideas and thoughts. Poor
which relies on it, and gives
,
unwary heart!.
And yet nobody is completely happy
if your breast does not drink love!
Woman is fickle as a feather in the wind, changes
ideas and thoughts.
(1) The opera voice (from the Italian opera, "musical work") designates from about 1350, a musical genre in which a stage action is, and has sung harmonized instrumental accompaniment, where the actors use rare singing styles. (es.wikipedia.org)
( 2) An aria is a musical piece to be sung by a solo voice, usually with orchestral accompaniment and as part of an opera. The word means air in Italian, the plural in English is arias (in Italian arie). (es.wikipedia.org)
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