Get a translation of the text, then listen to Dame Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti sing
'in questa reggia' from Turandot by Bellini with The London Philharmonic Orchestra...while alone.
The song is only about six minutes long; and at about four minutes and forty-five seconds, the walls
begin to ring, and you may feel every word Joan Sutherland is uttering.
She is refusing suitors marriage because the possible pitfalls for a woman are too horrific.
But, Pavorotti convinces her and everyone else everywhere, that love has to reign,and the song ebbs.
Don't worry, they do get married in the end.
But Turandot is quite an opera, and quite a tour de force for a strong voice with a very powerful story to tell the audience in 'reggia'- mainly about an auntie of the heroines.
These two performers have passed away; yet in part because of them, this opera, the songs in it, will be on music's map forever and ever.
Intensely ever after.
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