Daniel Auber - Fra Diavolo - "Si, domani!" (Lucianna Serra)

"Fra Diavolo" is considered Auber's masterpiece comic opera, it is one of the most strikingly charming and gentle comic operas I had the pleasure to hear. It has much in common with Boildieu's "La dame blanche" excepts from which I'm also going to post but I find "Fra Diavolo" to be a more consistent work, but that's just my opinion, you'll just have to judge from the presented excepts.

Zerline (or Zerlina, as in the Italian version which I'm using), the opera's heroine, has quite a lot of music to sing, actually, she doesn't leave the scene for most of Act Two during which she has two full scenes: a very large aria a rendition of which by Sutherland I have already posted some time ago; and the present aria/prayer. Zerlina is going to marry her beloved, Lorenzo, the very next morning. She is, of course, very happy about this: the whole first section of the scene is basically one torrent of the young girl's happiness. The section is built around the familiar couplet form with a few innovations: after the second full repeat, Zerlina sings a short section that seems to be an actual song (as in, this section is to be considered a real song; it will play a crucial part in the opera's denouement); there is a short "tempo di mezzo "before the final repeat of the main theme where Zerlina reminds herself that people are sleeping all around her (the whole opera happens in and around the inn of Zerlina's father where she works). She repeats the final part of the main theme one last time before preparing for sleep. It's often said that any good opera must have a drinking song and a prayer. Well, the drinking song has occurred in the Introduction to the First Act, while the final section of this scene is a prayer that Zerlina sings to Saint Mary. The girl falls asleep during the second couplet. It's not any of the "Ave Maria"s we know and love, but it's a perfectly charming finish to the piece, plus, it's a compliment to the simple, gentle Zerlina. The comedy comes from the fact that while Zerlina is dancing around her room, she is being watched upon by the robber Fra Diavolo of the title and his accomplices who note, for example, that the "song" is "very original".

Luciana Serra offers some very attractive singing here :)! Enjoy :)!

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• Luciana
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[elleonnorr]

@sandytheslayer

She has verry joung voice. Maby it helps you an other video here (on Youtube) - " Luciana Serra - Fille du Regiment - Lesson Scene - 1990". She was born in 1947.

[dooardo]

Sì domani, si domani Noi sare marito e moglie, Sì, domani, sì domani, Sì, domani, sì domani, Ei la  mano mi darà. Oh! quant'io sarò felice! quant'io sarò felice! Ei la mano mi darà ! Oh! quant'io sarò felice! Ei la mano mi darà ! Ei la mano mi darà ! Di questi Lordi La nostra vita Ben piu gradita Ognor sarà. Lo sposo mio Non sa che sia Nè gelosia Nè infedeltà. Non penso a quel che faccio, E mi son punto il dito. Del mio sposo certa io sono..

[rockgor]

Very cheerful. Reminds me of Offenbach and Rossini.

Tnx 4 the interesting post.

[MrLupo23]

Sei troppo una grande!!!!

[leprincebeaumont]

Deliziosa! E, come sempre, cantante e interprete splendida!!!

[sandytheslayer]

What a beautiful voice! Any idea how old she was here??? She sounds so exquisitely youthful here!

[agota1988]

* I mean fills, sorry for my lapsus...

[agota1988]

Her voice is amazing, and it feels my heart with joy and energy for this painful life.