Aria from Diva - Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez

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Fernandez sings the aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", from Act I of Catalani's opera "La Wally." The piece is a haunting reverie on the theme of traveling alone and far from home. Catalani died in 1893 of consumption at the age of 39, only a year after the triumphant premiere of "La Wally" at La Scala.

This performance plays a prominent role in the 1981 French romantic thriller, "Diva" - and is an excerpt from the DVD. Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, rates the movie 5 stars out of 5.

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The opera, based on a German novel, has a libretto by the young Luigi Illica, who went on to collaborate on the texts for "La Boheme," "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly." It tells of a wild, headstrong Swiss mountain girl who loves one local huntsman and is loved by another. Eventually she wins her true love, the pair embraces high in the Alps, an avalanche entombs the hero and she leaps after him to her snowy death.

The libretto for the opera is available (in Italian) at

A plot summary of the opera is available in English at

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Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: October 30, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Author: BestArts

Length: 00:04:48
Rating: 4.90
Views: 52437

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Video Comments:
mrfoltz (December 4, 2008 at 2:30 am)
I have to watch this at least once a week... to get my Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez fix.......mmmmmmmmmmm!
JanSaysHello (December 1, 2008 at 3:53 pm)
I haven't been able to stop crying since I've found opera on you tube.
Mario Lanza got me started crying.
Does anyone have more Wilhelmenia to post? I'd really appreciate it.
JanSaysHello (December 1, 2008 at 3:49 pm)
Brilliant American soprano, born in Philadelphia in 1949
tojour (December 1, 2008 at 1:31 am)
Gees, this is lovely.
dmg83 (November 25, 2008 at 4:51 pm)
I have loved this since I first watched the film years ago. Absolutely unforgettable!
SiEtIn1 (November 23, 2008 at 4:05 pm)
well you should be
flaviotrue (November 22, 2008 at 1:30 am)
Thanks for the video. I loved the movie, and this aria is the best sung ever.
alpiarts (November 21, 2008 at 10:21 pm)
@ isomurr :
For the last time :
THIS IS HER OWN VOICE ! ! !
Got it? Thanks, you unsuspecting ignorant.
Lovely greeze from Vienna (Occident)
isomurr (November 21, 2008 at 2:01 am)
she is not singing, isn`t her voice.. she is not feelling the aria and what she is singing...
ohworldgirl (November 21, 2008 at 5:32 pm)
Unless there was some sort of emergency - this IS her voice. She has sung alongside the likes of heavyweights Placido Domingo and starred in the Opera La Boheme in Paris however I don't know where she is or what she's doing now. Maybe she's raising a family - no idea. If anyone knows please shoot me a response. Thanks!