Oh, my dear father...

[franceslievens]

Odd experience when watching yesterday's episode of Carnivàle (Alamogordo, NM). At one point Lila, the woman with the beard, enters the disappeared Lodz' trailer. She realises he can't have wandered off and that something different happened. Then she turns to the record player and turns it on. An Italian aria resounds and I know that aria. It's by Giacomo Puccini, from his 1918 opera Gianni Schicchi. Lauretta sings O Mio Babbino Caro and pleeds with her daddy not to let her marry the man he chose for her. She'll throw herself into the Arno to end the pain and suffering caused by the man who is her dear, her father. The aria is so familiar to me I can sing it along, although I've never heard a recording of it before this scene. I've only heard myself bring it, rather clumsily during my singing lessons. Quite a strange experience, when you suddenly hear that aria in your favourite television series of the moment.

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[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Oh I know. When I heard a song from Tom McRae in the first episode of "Rescue Me", I coudn't believe it!

Everything is connected my dear, simply because we are there to make the connection exist.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

I had to look it up (am I glad HBO puts the music credits online), because I thought I was kidding myself. Which, of course, I wasn't.

The choice of the aria isn't that strange either. Lodz always plays operas in his trailer, but not the wellknown ones, that everyone can hum along. Otoh this isn't too obscure either and the occasional viewer can appreciate it.

How do you think I felt when I saw Sarah Betten from K's Choice in a BtVS episode. I don't even like their music that much!