Meanwhile, Connie Morton seems to be getting vocally formidable (though one always sounds better in the shower).

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For those among you who haven’t been to the opera in a while, she’s singing “Quando me’n vo'” from Puccini’s La bohème. And if you’re curious about what it’s like for real, here is a clip of one of my childhood opera crushes Lucia Popp singing it in a production at La Scala in 1979.