One summer long ago we went to the beach every day. Diva played for months at the repertory cinema, and we went to see it every weekend. Here is the key scene, with the aria from Catalani’s opera:
The song is sung again and also explained in this video from the Caffè Trieste. In Italy it is sung by Leyla Gencer and Renata Tebaldi. Montserrat Caballé has sung it. Maria Callas has, as well, although her voice is too high for me. M.J. Siri sang it in rich tones on RTVE in 2006. And it has been sung by many others, including ourselves, using the aria database.
Like the character who sings the song, I have also gone far away. Unlike Catalani’s singer, however, I am glad to go. When this post appears I will have already begun my descent, past the snowy Huascarán as it glows in the darkness. I am not sure to what extent I will be writing here. I may be at my research site. Ma rivedrai, rivedrai: I will definitely be back in August.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
enjoy your time away and see you again in august!
mangez beaucoup d’herbe.
I’m not sure if I saw that movie every weekend, but I know I saw it at least 4 times! thanks for the different versions of the song. I look forward to your impressions of Lima.
Gracias y’all … Lima is como siempre, you know, a large 3d world city with a gray climate in winter and quite Spanish. Today I got a cell phone for here and it was from TELEFONICA the Spanish company which is everywhere. The alternative company for land lines is TELMEX.
Happy trails!
That film is big in central Europe, too. Axé.
So DIVA is still big in Central Europe?
Today we went to where you buy computers … it has many more computers than your local Circuit City or Office Depot … it is organized like a food market, and people try to bark you into their booths in the same way!
All of those people who need computers, fast!
DIVA is shown regularly on the art cinema screens here in town–at least three times in the last year.
That’s pretty wild – I wonder what the particular fascination is?