We are at last, allowed some Italian: the divine language of opera and love. Never mind the meaning just roll the phrases around you mouth. Per chi questi fiori bellissimi? or Gondolieri carissimi! Siamo contadine!
How could you fail to dream that you are floating down the Grand Canal, dipping into a cornetto, a gorgeous gondolier swooshing his oar into the canal or fending off the enclosing walls in a narrow channel, while singing a Venetian love song ...
Oh, you want to know what they mean? Well try this for a glossary of some of the words in this sublime piece.
Signorina, io t’amo! Of happiness the very pith indeed.
