(November 16, 2012 at 9:12 pm)jonb Wrote: Rigoletto's opera Donna's Cellphone, or Donna's mobile, depending on which side of the Atlantic you are from.
In this scene our hero home from work as a veterinary surgeon, and zoo owner celebrates a successful operation on an Elephants ear, He is very pleased with the operation on the elephants ear as it is the first thing that has gone well for the zoo for some time. The scene ends with two villans saying what bad deeds they have done in the zoo, one saying it was I who pushed her over evil dead, and it ends with the poignant words I rolled over on the beaver.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg
Like! 8.93 on the likeometer, to be exact. Such an athletic voice and a wonderful song too. (I thought this song cam out before mobile phones but I guess not.) In another mood this one could have scored much higher. Not really an opera moment for me but still very nice.
I wanted to find what I think is an Indian song accompanied by the Kronos Quartet. But I can't find it on youtube. So here is the same singer accompanied by a much larger orchestra. It is her singing that I especially like and it doesn't really get going until almost a minute and a half in. Haunting voice but certainly not operatic. I have no idea what she is saying but I like the sound of it.
http://youtu.be/q55DYoDaFTk