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What did Maggie Lane sing on America's Got Talent?
The one who showed up in a plain dress, started singing and cast off the dress to show a red bikini? What was she singing? Given the plot of the opera, could there be any justification for her costuming choice?
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- BirdgirlLv 77 years ago
Actually, the girl in the aria is pleading with her father to let her MARRY her young man or she will throw herself off the bridge into the Arno River. I presumed all this time she was threatening suicide, but maybe she is just planning to take a little swim to cool off her ardor so that is why she is wearing a bikini.
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Note: "Babbino" is a diminutive form of "Babbo" meaning Father, Dad, etc. so it's usually translated to mean something like "Daddy" or "Papa"--something that is a bit less formal if not more childlike. Lauretta is young, but she is also trying to do her best to beg her Dearest Daddy to let her have her way and wed this beautiful young man she has met.
Not that they HAD bikinis in Puccini's day--but maybe it's one of those modern interpretations.
After all, it couldn't JUST be attention-getting GIMMICK for still yet another mediocre performance of an overdone aria, Even given nerves, there IS a difference between having a vibrato and having a WOBBLE.
I mean, her vocal wobble. The rest of her looks pretty fit and firm.
