Took my two younger kids--both autistic--to the last show of the season for Kentucky Opera. All three of us have been subscribers for the past several years, and both of them look forward to going, and always enjoy the shows.
Today's offering was Rigoletto. For some reason I had conflated it with Pagliacci. Don't know why: the latter is about a killer clown, and the former is about a clown who hires a killer. Clear distinction. ANYway, I enjoyed it all immensely, but I was (mistakenly) looking forward to the "Vesti La Giubba" aria, and was really leaning into the music waiting to catch my first whiff of it. I waited. And waited. And then, early in Act III, the orchestra hit a note, there was a little pause, and then they hit another note. Neither note was particularly distinctive, and I didn't think anything of it until Jacqueline tapped me on the shoulder and said, "I know this song!" My first thought was, "Sure you do." And then a few seconds later "La Donna è Mobile" began. Not as famous as "Vesti La Giubba," I suppose, but familiar to me.
Apparently not as familiar to me as to Jacqueline, though.
That girl KNOWS her opera.
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