Pets 🐶 and 🐱Their💃🕺People

Pets and Their People

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Favorite Songs 🎧 Music

Some of my  Favorite 

🎧  Songs 🎼 Music 😍

Playlists	T
The Platters - Only You - Lyrics	2:38
Histoire d' un Amour - French Latino	4:07
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody  +Lyrics	3:46
Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (Lyrics HD)	3:13
Dean Martin - "Sway" (With Lyrics)	2:41
Dean Martin - Hey Brother, Pour The Wine	2:38
Roy Orbison - In Dreams  (Lyrics)	2:50
Dean Martin - That's Amore (w/lyrics)	3:06
Etta James - At Last - Lyrics	3:05
Françoise Hardy - Mon amie la Rose	2:18
Tino Rossi - Un violon dans la nuit	3:10
Natasha Atlas - Mon Amie La Rose	4:36
Charles Aznavour - La bohème (Lyrics )	4:05
Françoise Hardy - La maison où j'ai grandi - French nglish Lyrics	3:45
Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas - French and English Lyrics	3:54
Line Renaud - Que Sera Sera	2:02
Édith Piaf - La Vie en Rose + Paroles	3:11
Dalida - Le bonheur	2:43
Françoise Hardy - Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour (Remastered)	1:53
Tino Rossi - Après toi, je n’aurai plus d’amour	2:47
Dalida - Love in Portofino - Paroles (Lyrics)	3:04
Una Notte a Napoli	4:47
Cuba Feliz - Lagrimas Negras (Lyric added)	5:20
Buena Vista Social Club - Veinte Anos	3:35
La Seine - Un monstre à Paris - Paroles	2:48
Norah Jones - I´ve Got to See You Again	4:11
Pink Martini - Una notte a Napoli	4:47
Martin Zarzar - Moliendo Cafe (Subtitle)	3:13
Orietta Berti - Amado Mio	3:54
Dean Martin - Blue Moon	3:06
Toto Cutugno - L'Italiano (Lyrics + English)	3:52
The Gypsy Queens - L'Italiano (Toto Cutugno)	3:45
Luz Casal - Historia de un Amor	3:52
Luz Casal - Piensa En Mi	4:29
Cesaria Evora & Eleftheria Arvanitaki - Sodade	5:55
Amado Mio - Pink Martini with singer Storm Large	5:05
Amado Mio  - ( Orietta Berti )	4:17
Sam Cooke - Unchained Melody	3:34
Natacha Atlas - Mon amie la Rose	4:12
French Latino - Historia de un Amor	4:06
Una notte a Napoli -Pink Martini	4:43
Cowboy Junkies - Blue Moon Revisited (Song For Elvis)	4:29

🎧

Lascia Ch'io Pianga 🎼 Farinelli

Farinelli - Lascia Ch'io Pianga

Handel

From the movie Farinelli

(Act II of Handel's opera, "Rinaldo")
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Lascia ch'io pianga (Air de Almirena)
파리넬리 - 울게하소서
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SYNOPSIS
In the 18th century, no man was more famous, more beloved, or more celebrated than the man called Farinelli. The amazing true story of the world famous castrato comes brilliantly to life in a sumptuous and sexy drama of high notes and even higher passions. With all the charisma, talent, drive and success of a modern-day rock star, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women... and the voice of an angel.

Jacopo amigoni il cantante Farinelli con amici 1750-52 circa 

 

Film 'Farinelli' - Ombra fedele anch'io
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Aria of Dario from opera 'Idaspe' by Riccardo Broschi

Although Dionisi provided the speaking voice (originally in French), Farinelli's singing voice was provided by the Polish soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska and a countertenor, Derek Lee Ragin, who were recorded separately and then digitally merged to recreate the sound of a castrato.

• "A masterwork! Audiences Should Shout Bravo!" -Bruce Williamson PLAYBOY
• "Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll...18th-Century Style!" -Dr. Joy Browne WOR Radio

 
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CAST AND CREW
Stars: Marianne Basler, Jacques Boudet, Caroline Cellier, Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zilberstein, Elsa Zylberstein
Director: Gerard Corbiau
Producer: Vera Belmont

Lascia ch'io pianga - Farinelli
Lyrics + sub. Español
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Sonya Yoncheva - Lascia Ch'io Pianga
(Music Video - from Handel album)

The Power of One

The Power of One

           One song can spark a moment,
         One flower can wake the dream.
        One tree can start a forest,
       One bird can herald spring.
     One smile begins a friendship,
    One handclasp lifts a soul.
    One star can guide a ship at sea,
    One word can frame the goal.
    One vote can change a nation,
    One sunbeam lights a room.
     One candle wipes out darkness,
      One laugh will conquer gloom.
        One step must start each journey,
           One word must start each prayer.
               One hope will raise our spirits,
                  One touch can show you care.
                         One voice can speak with wisdom,
                             One heart can know what’s true.
                                One life can make the difference,
                                   You see, IT’S UP TO YOU!

~ Author Unknown~
  
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”
—Anonymous

Best Opera Arias🎼Le Più Belle Arie D'opera:

Best Opera Arias

Le Più Belle Arie D'opera:
Turandot, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Aida, Norma.

TRACKLIST
BEST OPERA ARIAS  
Le Più Belle Arie D'opera:

1. NESSUN DORMA (Vincerò) da Turandot di Puccini -- Mario Del Monaco
2. SEMPRE LIBERA da La Traviata di Verdi -- Maria Callas (3:00)
3. LA DONNA E' MOBILE da Rigoletto di Verdi - Giuseppe Di Stefano (7:00)
4. VIVA IL VINO SPUMEGGIANTE dalla Cavalleria Rusticana di Mascagni (9:29)
5. SI', MI CHIAMANO MIMI' da La Boheme di Puccini -- Renata Tebaldi (12:12)
6. CELESTE AIDA dall'Aida di Verdi -- Kristian Johannsson (17:38)
7. LIBIAMO, LIBIAMO NE' LIETI CALICI da La Traviata di Verdi -- Ranata Tebaldi (22:06)
8. CASTA DIVA dalla Norma di Bellini -- Maria Callas (25:22)
9. FARFALLONE AMOROSO da Le Nozze di Figaro di Mozart -- Rolando Panerai (32:36)
10. VESTI LA GIUBBA da I Pagliacci di Leoncavallo -- Giuseppe Di Stefano (36:01)
11. DI QUELLA PIRA da Il Trovatore di Verdi -- Giuseppe Di Stefano (39:24)
12. SON VERGINE VEZZOSA da I Puritani di Bellini -- Maria Callas (42:36)
13. SPARGI D'AMARO PIANTO dalla Lucia di lammermoor di Donizetti -- Maria Callas (46:17)
14. LA' CI DAREM LA MANO dal Don Giovanni di Mozart -- Cesare Siepi e Erna Berger (50:26)
15. PARIGI O CARA da La Traviata di Verdi - Renata Tebaldi, Giacinto Prandelli (54:11) 

Opera 📽 Stream 🎧 Nightly

Nightly Opera Stream

Hundreds of thousands of people have been tuning in daily to our free performance streams, and many of them have kindly been asking how they can help the Met during this economically perilous time. If you’re enjoying these presentations and would like to contribute, please click the button below. We thank you for your support.

Saturday, April 25
At-Home Gala
More than 40 leading artists perform in a live stream from their homes around the world.

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https://metoperafree.brightcove.services/at-home-gala/index.html?videoId=6150080998001

This At-Home Gala is our most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure. An unprecedented undertaking, the event features more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world, as well as pre-recorded performances by the Met Orchestra and Chorus, which have been created from individual takes recorded at the homes of each of the musicians. General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin are hosting from their homes in New York City and Montreal, respectively. We hope you enjoy the music.

The At-Home Gala is part of the Met’s urgent “The Voice Must Be Heard” fundraising campaign to support the company and protect its future.

Sunday, April 26
Rossini’s La Cenerentola 
Starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From May 10, 2014.

Week 7

Supplementary content—including synopses, articles, and more—is available here.

Monday, April 27

Donizetti’s Anna Bolena 
Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stephen Costello, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Marco Armiliato. From October 15, 2011.

Tuesday, April 28

Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda
 Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, and Matthew Polenzani, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From January 19, 2013.

Wednesday, April 29

Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux 
Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From April 16, 2016.

Thursday, April 30

Nico Muhly’s Marnie 
Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies, and Christopher Maltman, conducted by Roberto Spano. From November 10, 2018.

Friday, May 1
 Viewers’ Choice: Verdi’s Aida

Starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken, and Simon Estes, conducted by James Levine. 

https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=811357011799

Transmitted live on January 3, 1985. 

Saturday, May 2

Verdi’s Luisa Miller 
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, and Plácido Domingo, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. From April 14, 2018.

Sunday, May 3
 

Borodin’s Prince Igor 
Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili, and Ildar Abdrazakov, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. From March 1, 2014.

Nightly Met Opera Streams

During this extraordinary and difficult time, the Met hopes to brighten the lives of our audience members even while our stage is dark. Each day, a different encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series is being made available for free streaming on the Met website, with each performance available for a period of 23 hours, from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 6:30 p.m. the following day. The schedule will include outstanding complete performances from the past 14 years of cinema transmissions, starring all of opera’s greatest singers.

The streams are also available through the Met Opera on Demand apps for Apple, Amazon, and Roku devices and Samsung Smart TV. To access them without logging in, click “Browse and Preview” in the apps for connected TV, and “Explore the App” on tablets and mobile devices.

https://www.metopera.org/user-information/nightly-met-opera-streams

Kindness😍

Kindness is the Language,
Which the Deaf can Hear

and the Blind can See.  
Mark Twain

Coronavirus 6 Feet May Not Be Enough 4 Protection

Why 6 Feet May Not Be Enough

To Protect Yourself From Coronavirus

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You may not realize just how far tiny particles can travel in the air when you sneeze, cough, or even talk. 

NBC’s Kerry Sanders takes an in-depth look at the science behind the 6-foot social distancing rule.

Six new coronavirus symptoms
just officially added to CDC list.
What are they?
April 24, 2020

It doesn’t take long for mild coronavirus symptoms to turn serious. These virtual reality images show how the virus can invade the lungs and kill. By The New York Times

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has tripled the number of coronavirus symptoms it lists on its website.

The federal organization previously listed fever, cough and shortness of breath as symptoms of COVID-19. The CDC has added six additional symptoms as people “have had a wide range of symptoms reported,” it says on its website.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242260231.html#storylink=cpy

Those who have “trouble breathing, persistent pain or pressure in their chest, new confusion or inability to arouse or have bluish lips or face” should seek immediate medical attention, according to the CDC.

The new symptoms have been reported by many people who have had the virus. Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who was one of the first North American athletes to be diagnosed with the disease, said after testing positive he hadn’t “been able to smell anything for the last 4 days.”

Cara Vidano, a California woman who suspected she had the virus last month after her boyfriend had a confirmed case, said her legs “were so sore.

“It was like we had run a long-distance race,” she told the Press Democrat. 

CNN reporter Chris Cuomo was among those who reported having chills. He said he was shivering so much that he chipped a tooth.

Other symptoms for coronavirus may include diarrhea, skin rash, runny nose, red eyes, and fatigue.

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242260231.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article242260231.html#storylink=cpy

Watch for symptoms

People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness.

These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus:

• Fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Chills
• Repeated shaking with chills

• Muscle pain
• Headache
• Sore throat
• New loss of taste or smell

When to Seek Medical Attention

If you develop any of these emergency warning signs* for COVID-19 get medical attention immediately:

• Trouble breathing
• Persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• New confusion or inability to arouse
• Bluish lips or face

*This list is not all inclusive. Please consult your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.
Call 911 if you have a medical emergency: Notify the operator that you have, or think you might have, COVID-19. If possible, put on a cloth face covering before medical help arrives.

Caring for yourself or others

• Learn how to protect yourself
• How to care for someone who is sick
• What to do if you are sick

Smile😍 Laugh🕺 Play

Smile...

Laugh...

Play...

Children  smile 400 times a day on average… Adults 15 times.
Children  laugh 150 times a day…Adults 6 times per day.

Children  play between 4-6 hours a day... Adults only 20 minutes a day.

What’s happened?                    

Mozart's 🎼 Don Giovanni

Mozart's Don Giovanni

Complete Opera
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Mozart - Don Giovanni (1787)
With double subs It-Eng

Comment by: Agapò te Musikè 2

WITTICISM, PUNS, AND OTHER AMENITIES… 

It's a shame that subtitles often miss so many subtleties of Da Ponte’s libretto, so many allusions, and nuances that only an Italian can grasp! 

For example, in the opera's opening scene, Don Giovanni and Leporello sing at the same time almost the same expression (0:10:07), but employing the verb “precipitar(e)” in two different acceptations, often confused: Don Giovanni does not fear at all his own downfall… it’s Leporello who is afraid to suffer something harmful, while Don Giovanni is justifying to himself whatever misdeed he is ready to commit, as being compelled to, with hypocritical rhetoric… And actually, shortly thereafter he will kill Donna Anna’s father, and again will claim that his victim had it coming! The poetic witticism of putting two different acceptations of the same verb near each other is repeated in the first scene of the II act (1:37:00). It’s striking that someone should “make love” (“fare all’amor”) beneath a window (1:50:13). 

But this idiom has shifted in meaning over time in both languages: nothing to do with the present meaning: at that time, it meant “to woo”, “to court”. Ignoring the possible meaning hidden behind the words and overlooking the libretto’s indications often could prove misleading, as shown by the common misunderstanding of the duettino “Là ci darem la mano”. Here correctly, initially Zerlina sings toward the audience, her backs on Don Giovanni, thinking out loud, trying to decide what to do. Her aside “Quick, I’m no longer strong” is not meant to urge the seducer, but amounts to saying: “Somebody help me at once! I’m afraid my strength is failing ”. This last (half-hearted) hint at resistance is shaken at the prospect of elevating her own station through marriage and (pretty comically) finally overcome when the Don explicitly promises to improve her lot… (so much for pitying Masetto!) It really isn't about romance, on either side! It’s rather a tug of war between two different cunnings. And the words with which Don Giovanni mocks Zerlina’s expectations are not accidental. “There we shall give each other our hands” is not just an invitation to “hold hands”: he intends to evoke the ritual “join your right hands” at the exchange of the wedding vows. But “to give one’s hand”, besides to swear or to seal a vow, is done to confirm a generic agreement; “darsi la mano”, as “to shake hands” intended, binds a bargain... Similarly “there you will tell me yes” patently would lead Zerlina to foresee the wedding declaration of consent, her “I do”. But surely Don Giovanni has in mind another kind of consent… 

At the end, Don Giovanni and Zerlina are going to “ristorar le pene”, “to redress”, “to reward” (with marriage, or so Zerlina believes) the sufferings endured by their innocent love... Less innocent is the pun: it seems to wink at us: definitely the two don't mean the same thing! It could approximately be rendered… (0:46:26) 

But how tricky it is to… “restore” such tricks!