Caro Mio Ben is NOT from an Opera. You will probably find it in a great book called 24 Italian Art Songs and Arias. It is an Italian art song - a stand alone piece that should be performed with a similar technique to opera. Art songs are great for training and recitals. Good luck, and keep on singing!
O Mio Babbino Caro is an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1981), by Giacomo Puccini.
O Mio Babbino Caro
Maria Callas singing "O Mio Babbino Caro" from the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini.
Caro mio ben is a love song. this would be a young man telling the woman of his dreams that he is head over heels for her. that his heart languishs for her and only her. HE telling her over and over again that he loves her and that the cruelity toward him needs to stop.To give you a simplier meaning i have broken the words down.Caro Mio Ben, Credimi Almen,Hello my love, listen to what i am sayingSenza di te, lanquisce il cor.I long for youIl tuo fedel, Sospira Ongor;I am yours and you are my LifeCessa crudel, tanto rigor.stop the Cruelity and love me.this truly is a beautiful song.
O Mio Babbino Caro is about a woman who begs her father to let her marry the man she loves ("I want to go to Porta Rossa, and buy the ring!").However, she warns that she would rather die than live without him ("And if my love were in vain, I would throw myself in the Arno! [a river in Florence]").It is believed however, that her father did not approve based on the final lyrics:"I am consumed by torment!Papa, have pity, have pity..."
O Mio Babbino Caro is an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1981), by Giacomo Puccini.
"O Mio Babbino Caro" from the Puccini Opera Gianni Schicchi
The Italian arietta Caro mio ben has the music era classification of the Baroque style of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Opera: Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) Aria: O mio babbino caro
O Mio Babbino Caro
Giuseppe Giordano lived from 1748 to 1798. His Caro mio ben hasn't been specifically dated. But sources tend to give it a date of 1780s-1790.
Giuseppe Giordani [19xii1752 - 4i1798] was the composer of 'Caro mio ben'. He was a composer from the southern Italian city of Naples. Most of his compositions were operas.
'O mio babbino caro', from the opera Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
O mio babino caro from the Opera Gianni Schichi by Giacomo Puccini
"O mio babbino caro" ("Oh My Dear Papa") is a soprano aria from the opera 1918 Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini, to a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.
It is an Italian Aria I sang it in 6th grade
O Mio Babbino Caro is sung in Italian. It translates to Oh My Dear Father. The song appears in the opera Gianni Schicchi and is sung as a Soprano aria.