DANZA, LA

Created on 06/05/2021
Latest update on 28/11/2023

Artist: Lucrezia Bori
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
Label: Victor
Year: 1914

Tarantella from his collection Les Soirées Musicales (1835). No Italian wedding is complete without this tune (as Tarantella Napolitana - C'è la luna mezzo mare - Oh Ma Ma).

Covers:

1838:

Franz Liszt [transposed the theme for piano]

1841:

Frédéric Chopin [inspiration for his Tarantelle en La bémol majeur - Op 43]

1912:

Enrico Caruso

1918:

Ottorino Respighi [in La Boutique fantasque, a ballet on themes from Rossini]

1932:

Joseph Schmidt

1937:

Richard Tauber

1938:

Beniamino Gigli

1938:

Willy Derby

1950:

Milton Berle [as Lucky Lucky Lucky Me]

1950:

Evelyn Knight & The Ray Charles Singers [idem, crediting Milton Berle/Buddy Arnold]

1951:

Mario Lanza [in film The Great Caruso]

1960:

Annette Funicello [as Lucky Lucky]

1978:

Luciano Pavarotti

2002:

Andrea Bocelli

2003:

Cecilia Bartoli

2009:

André Rieu

2018:

Adrienne Valerie [as Lucky Lucky Me and in a vintage mix also as Lucky Lucky Lucky Me]

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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