A favourite of Andrew Beckett's, this aria for soprano is sung by the character of Maddalena di Coigny.  
A favourite of Andrew Beckett's, this aria for soprano is sung by the character of Maddalena di Coigny.  She sings of Bersei's prostitution to save her after the burning of her childhood home and sacrificial death of her mother to also save her during the French Revolution. The both melancholic and triumphant aria is from the 1896 opera "Andrea Chénier" by Umberto Giordano. FTP name this song, whose title translates from the Italian to English as "The Death Mother."
A favourite of Andrew Beckett's, this aria for soprano is sung by the character of Maddalena di Coigny.  
La Mamma Morta