Maria Callas - O Mio Babbino Caro

Maria Callas O Mio Babbino Caro Movie Scenes - Romeo and Juliet Gianni Schicchi, Act 1; “O Mio Babbino Caro” (Lauretta) Composer – Giacomo Puccini Album - Pure - Maria Callas Sound recording - WMG/ PLG UK Classics Visual content - Paramount Pictures Soprano – Maria Callas with Philharmonia Orchestra & Tullio Serafin _____ “O mio babbino caro“ (“Oh my dear daddy“) is a soprano aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between her father Schicchi and the family of Rinuccio, the boy she loves, have reached a breaking point that threatens to separate her from Rinuccio. It provides an interlude expressing lyrical simplicity and love in contrast with the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing, and feuding in medieval Florence. It provides the only set-piece in the through-composed opera. _____ Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Pucc