Okay, a bit of silliness on my part - I have various arias sung by multiple singers. I want to do a sing-off, and I want you to choose whom between. It's interactive blogging - you choose an aria, or, alternatively, choose a singer, and let battle commence. And you might as well choose, because I'm going to do it anyway, but i want you to be in Partnership in this deal, to feel a sense of Ownership and Empowerment...!
Your choices are:
- O Mio Babbino Caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicci - soprano (from A Room With a View)
- Casta Diva from Bellini's Norma - soprano (Ford Mondeo)
- Che gelida manina from Puccini's Boheme - tenor (from Moonstruck)
- E Lucevan le stelle from Puccini's Tosca - tenor (from, er, Tosca)
- La donna e mobile from Verdi's Rigoletto (it's my theme tune - literally translated, it means "The noble woman is on her cell phone...")
- Un bel d� vedremo from Puccini's Madama Butterfly - soprano (from Fatal Attraction)
- Donna non vidi mai from Puccini's Manon Lescaut - tenor (literally, "The woman who forgot to set the video today")
- Ebben? Ne andro lontana from Catalina's La Wally - soprano (from Diva)
- Lamento do Frederico from Cilea's L'arlesiana - tenor (trust me, it's nice this one...)
- Lascia ch'io pianga from Handel's Rinaldo - soprano (Harrods advert)
- Questa o quella from Verdi's Rigoletto (from Verdi's Rigoletto)
- Una furtiva lagrima from Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore - tenor (another nice one)
- Vesti la giubba from Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci - tenor (Caruso's signature - but I don't have any Caruso...)
- Vissi d'arte from Puccini's Tosca - soprano (do choose this one, I really like it...)
The singers you have to choose from are: The thre Tenors - Ensemble; Cecelia Bartoli; Montserrat Caballe; Maria Callas; Joseph Calleja; Josep Carreras; Jose Cura; Victoria de los Angeles; Plácido Domingo; Renee Fleming; Mirella Freni; Lesley Garret; Nicolai Gedda; Angela Gheorghiu; Alfredo Kraus; Luciano Pavarotti; Joan Sutherland; Renata Tebaldi; Kiri Te Kanawa; and Rolando Villazon.
Or throw in another aria and see if I can oblige - anything, except Nessun Fucking Dorma...!
