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CTyankee

(63,901 posts)
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 03:25 PM Jul 2016

Is NOTHING sacred to the Trump campaign? Now they've stolen Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma"!!!

I AM IN A TOTAL RAGE! Pavarotti's widow has complained. He just borrows Puccini and one of the world's greatest operatic tenors to announce his plane flying into Cleveland, blaring it out on loudspeakers.

Mhttp://www.aol.com/article/2016/07/22/pavarotti-widow-tells-trump-to-stop-using-nessun-dorma-in-camp/21437126/

Maybe they'll grab Kiri Te Kanawa's beautiful rendering of O Mio Babbino Caro when Ivanka campaigns with her "dearest daddy."

Maybe Melania, who was a jewelry designer, can blast few bars from a recording of Maria Callas"Vissi d'arte" while they're at it.

This guy has NO SHAME. I am going to beat up a pillow...


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Is NOTHING sacred to the Trump campaign? Now they've stolen Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma"!!! (Original Post) CTyankee Jul 2016 OP
Why am I reminded of the opera scene in *The Untouchables*...? First Speaker Jul 2016 #1
I could just... pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #2
And even apart from that, what does the aria have to do with the campaign? The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #3
they play the ending of the aria which is "Vincero! Vincero! Vincero" CTyankee Jul 2016 #4
Oh, of course. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #5
Maybe "Che gelida manina" would be more fitting The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #6
That scene from La Boheme is heartbreakingly beautiful... CTyankee Jul 2016 #12
You want heartbreakingly beautiful Puccini? Try this one: The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2016 #13
Seriously? malthaussen Jul 2016 #7
no, I'll try to find it, on youtube tho... CTyankee Jul 2016 #11
Opening scene after the title cards... malthaussen Jul 2016 #15
The irony is that the ones who were hearing it SoCalDem Jul 2016 #8
They could play 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' and they wouldn't get the irony pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #9
That's the 4th one I've seen so far. Mc Mike Jul 2016 #10
He's coming to kill the wabbit? Buns_of_Fire Jul 2016 #14
Sacrilege! smirkymonkey Jul 2016 #16
somebody working for him did, tho. they played the ending where "Vincero!" is repeated 3 times. CTyankee Jul 2016 #18
They/DRUMPF got no music, know no music, have no RESPECT for anything, are *IGNORANT* UTUSN Jul 2016 #17

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,661 posts)
3. And even apart from that, what does the aria have to do with the campaign?
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 03:30 PM
Jul 2016

Except that "nessun dorma" means "nobody sleeps." That could be true, considering Trump gives people nightmares.

CTyankee

(63,901 posts)
4. they play the ending of the aria which is "Vincero! Vincero! Vincero"
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 03:37 PM
Jul 2016

"I will win!"

The little video in the article shows the plane landing w/that ending blaring away.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,661 posts)
6. Maybe "Che gelida manina" would be more fitting
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 03:45 PM
Jul 2016

in light of Trump's tiny hands.

I think the most appropriate opera selection would be the chorus "Ahi, caso acerbo" from L'Orfeo.

malthaussen

(17,184 posts)
15. Opening scene after the title cards...
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 07:19 PM
Jul 2016

Uncle Adolf descending through the clouds in his airplane to the Nuremburg rally. I had remembered it with "Ride of the Valkyries" playing in the background, but actually that only happened on my internal soundtrack.

-- Mal

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
8. The irony is that the ones who were hearing it
Fri Jul 22, 2016, 04:12 PM
Jul 2016

wouldn't understand the implications..

Now, if they had played some Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard/etc....maybe

CTyankee

(63,901 posts)
18. somebody working for him did, tho. they played the ending where "Vincero!" is repeated 3 times.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 07:10 AM
Jul 2016

and very strongly, with certainty. Trump is in our faces (in this case operatically/dramatically/with flourish) to drive home one of his main messages which is his certainty of ALWAYS winning.

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