from the one act Italian opera Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Role: Santuzza, a peasant girl

Setting: Easter Sunday in the main square of a Sicilian village, Italy, late 1800s
Synopsis:  In this Aria, heartbroken Santuzza tells her boyfriend's mother that when her son Turridu left to join the Army, he promised to marry Lola. When he came back, however, Lola had married someone else. So, he fell in love with Santuzza which made Lola so jealous that she has stolen him away from Santuzza. To say that Santuzza is upset about this turn of events would be an understatement. 

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From the opera "Carmen" by Georges Bizet.  Accompanied by Zachary Gordin. 

Background:
After getting into a cat fight by the cigarette factory where she works, Carmen is arrested. She tries to regain her freedom by using her charms on the poor officer in charge of watching her, Don Jose.  In this aria, Carmen sings to Don Jose about going to her friend Lillas Pastia's place, where she could drink wine and dance the seguidilla with a new lover she has yet to acquire. She implies not too subtly that Don Jose could fill that vacancy.

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