And now coming onstage Montserrat Caball - O mio babbino caro aka the Fat Lady is Starting to Sing

[Botany]

[texasfiddler]

1. LOL!!

Cue the DU PC police in 3,2,1...

[Botany]

2. I hope not ... she is lovely and has a beutiful voice

n/t

[texasfiddler]

3. Absolutely. I watched the whole thing and she nails the entire range. Beautiful!!

[Botany]

6. BTW O mio babbino caro means Oh my dear daddy

Turns out she was friends with Freddy Mercury

[orwell]

4. Beautiful singing...

...he doesn't deserve such beauty.

How about this:

[niyad]

5. What a beautiful way to start the day.

I WANT that jacket!!!!!

[orwell]

7. How about somebody from this side...

...of the pond:

[panfluteman]

8. That's Montserrat CaballE, Dummies!

With a French style accent over the final E. Thus, her last name would be pronounced Cah-Bah-YAY! Her first name, Montserrat, is a name for a form of the Black Madonna enshrined in the village of Montserrat in Spain.

[sdfernando]

9. O mio babbino caro

is quite a beautiful aria from the 1 act opera Gianni Schicchi by Giaccomo Puccini.

Lauretta is begging her father Gianni Schicchi to let her marry Rinuccio or she will commit suicide. (I've commented before that this is the most beautiful piece to threaten to kill yourself)

Oh my beloved father,
I love him, I love him,
I’ll go to Porta Rossa,
To buy our wedding ring!

Oh yes, I really love him!
And if you still say no,
I’ll go to Ponte Vecchio,
And throw myself below!

My love for which I suffer,
At last, I want to die!
Father, I beg, I beg!
Father, I beg, I beg!

[CTyankee]

10. I think that she is a young woman given to lots of hyperbole, as the words suggest...

Throwing yourself in the river if daddy says no is a classic young teen threat. Babbio is "daddy."

[sdfernando]

11. Yes it is hyperbole...

my comment was in keeping with the comic nature of the opera itself.