Angelica was sent to a convent after giving birth to an illegitimate child. After some years there she has just been told that the boy died in infancy.
Renata Scotto sings "Senza mama, O bimbo, tu sei morto" from Puccini's "Suor Angelica" Loren Maazel conducting.
San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus Patrick Summers, conductor (San Francisco, 2009)
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Mirella Freni, soprano. Orchestra del Teatro dell´Opera, Roma. Franco Ferraris.