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Subject: Elvino's aria, problems of tonality
Date sent: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:08:45 +0200
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Hello,

I was going to sing Elvino's aria: Ah perche' non posso odiarti (Bellini -
La sonnambula) and I took the score, where the aria is in D flat majeur,
with very many high b flats and even d flats. But there is also one
recording of this aria in my collection - Pavarotti sings it in B flat
majeur...
Maybe somebody knows anything about tradition, is this aria always sung in
B flat majur, or in original tonality?


Toomas Kaldaru,
tenor

Tallinn, Estonia