Clip of the week...

From Wikipedia:

"O mio babbino caro (Oh my dear papa) is an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini (music) and Giovacchino Forzano (Libretto). It is sung by Lauretta after tensions between Schicchi and his prospective in-laws have reached a breaking point that threatens to separate her from Rinuccio, the boy she loves. It provides a contrasting interlude expressing lyrical simplicity and single-hearted love in the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, double-dealing and feuding in medieval Florence of Puccini's only comedy, and it provides the only set-piece in the through-composed conversational musical give-and-take."

Here it is, performed as a duet between Inna Dukach and The GrooveBarbers:



(If The Groovebarbers sound familiar, it's because they are 75% made up of the former vocal group Rockapella. Where in the world *is* Carmen San Diego, anyway?)