
He gave her Christ, she gave him sex - and it killed her.
Listen ALEXANDRIA “Voilà donc la terrible cité” (Alain Fondary) + MIRROR “Ah, je suis seule… Dis-moi que je suis belle” (Leontyne Price) = DEATH “Te souvient-il du lumineux voyage” (Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes)
Lately, I’ve been scrutinizing Giorgetta’s final scream from Il Tabarro. I can only wonder what my neighbors must think! Still, the exercise was enlightening, subversive, and even occasionally bone-chilling. I laughed, I cried, but mostly I just screamed my f**kin head off. After all,
If you can’t scream at the end of Il Tabarro then where the hell can you scream?

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