Ballet, Bailey's, Paris and David

[dianora]

Since the last time I updated, things in Italy have been going much better. I went to the ballet on Thursday night in the Boboli gardens (a Medici legacy in Florence among many others), where they were performing Serenade, one of my long-time favorites, and The Rite of Spring, which I had never seen before. Needless to say, the two acts were as

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[violaswamp]

On a whim, incredibly, insanely, I booked a flight to Paris for this weekend.

Oh, wow. That sounds exciting. Have a great time!

[taintedrocky]

Oooh, have fun in Paris!

[chicagoamy]

Oooh, Paris! Have a fabulous time! Send me a postcard with a picture of thre Eiffel Tower on it. ;-D

Glad to read that things are going better! :-)

[dianora]

E-mail me your address and I'll see what I can do! ;)

[lilac_bearry]

After the ballet I went to a bar on the Arno, right by the Ponte Vecchio

*sings*

Si, si ci voglio andare!
E se l'ami indarno, andrei sul Ponte Vecchio,
ma per armi in Arno!

*sighs*

You know O Mio Babbino Caro, right? I hope you sang it while on Ponte Vecchio. :D

[lilac_bearry]

Ooops, Bambino, not the other. I got the lyrics off a website that I now realize might not have been very reliable. :blush:

[dianora]

Wait, apparently it is babbino, the diminutive of "daddy" -- according to this website, anyway. I always thought it was bambino, too!

To answer your question, I know the song but not well enough to know the lyrics. I never knew the Ponte Vecchio was in it! That's awesome.

Sì, sì, ci voglio andare!
e se l'amassi indarno,
andrei sul Ponte Vecchio,
ma per buttarmi in Arno!

I'll be certain to sing it next time I'm on the Ponte Vecchio, maybe tomorrow. I will not, of course, throw myself (buttarmi) into the Arno. ;)

You have no idea how happy your comment just made me. I actually miss music a lot here, since I didn't bring any CDs, and all you hear on the radio is bad American pop music from a year ago. I should find an opera to go to one of these days (I missed Carmen in the first couple weeks! :O ).

[dianora]

P.S. What makes me especially happy (language geex that I am) is that that little passage alone uses the ci locative, the imperfect subjunctive (amassi), and the conditional (andrei) -- all things I've been learning here! Okay, I'm sad -- I just can't help lovin' those languages. :p

[harryswheezy]

Have fun!

*sigh*

I'd love to be going to Paris on a whim.

[dianora]

:D It's much easier when you're one country away, let me tell you that.