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Old January 30th, 2018 #5598
Nikola Bijeliti
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Women are always changing their minds!

Enrico Caruso was the world's first recording star. Although the gramophone had come out several decades earlier, Caruso was the first star-quality recording artist, and he earned millions of dollars in royalties from those recordings. His recording of "Woman is Changeable," from the opera Rigoletto by Verdi in 1907 was in the possession of nearly every owner of the RCA Victrola at the time. It is one of the most famous arias in the repertoire, recognizable by nearly everyone, even by people who do not listen to opera. Caruso was also featured in the first ever public radio broadcast in the United States in 1910.

Here is Caruso's original 1907 recording of "Woman is Changeable":


La donna è mobile
Qual piuma al vento,
muta d'accento
e di pensiero.

Sempre un amabile,
leggiadro viso,
in pianto o in riso,
è menzognero.

La donna è mobil'.
Qual piuma al vento,
muta d'accento
e di pensier'!

È sempre misero
chi a lei s'affida,
chi le confida
mal cauto il cuore!

Pur mai non sentesi
felice appieno
chi su quel seno
non liba amore!

La donna è mobil'
Qual piuma al vento,
muta d'accento
e di pensier'!