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For Italians, love, whether passionate or maternal, is
eternal. Suor Angelica tells the story of love that transcends this world.
In the opera, Suor Angelica has been doing penance in a
convent for embarrassing her noble family by bearing an illegitimate child.
Her aunt, an arrogant, cold princess visits her and informs her that her
child has been dead for over two years. In the aria, Angelica expresses the
pain of not being with her child when he died. However, her pain eventually
transforms into a bittersweet joy -- she realizes she can be re-united with
him in heaven. "Parlami amore" (Speak to me my love) she says to him,
waiting for a sign so she knows when they will be together. |
