Mario Lanza - La Danza - Tarantella Siciliana Dancers

Mario’s marvelous voice is accompanied by the wonderful Tarantella Siciliana dancers and 19th century paintings showing scenes of Napoli and Tarantella dancers. An English translation is presented in clip form at the beginning of the video. May the translation provide additional understanding and enjoyment of this song. “’La danza’ (1835) is a patter song by Gioachino Rossini, in Tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection Les soirées musicales (1830–1835). The lyrics are by Count Carlo Pepoli(it), librettist of Vincenzo Bellini’s opera I Puritani. ‘La danza’ is a stand-alone chamber vocal piece, rather than part of a larger work. Franz Liszt transcribed it for piano, Frédéric Chopin used the song as inspiration for his Tarantelle in A-flat, Op. 43, and Ottorino Respighi featured it in La Boutique fantasque.” (Above quote is from: ) The clip of Mario singing La Danza is from his film The Great Caruso. This film and Mario