The song is considered to be one of the most difficult arias ever written for a soprano. And yet she makes it look so easy, and with such power.
And she was only 17 years old when she performed it.
Una soprano estaba cantando su cuarto bis, "Sempre libera", un número de ópera que tiene una parte de tenor, un joven estudiante de ópera se une espontáneamente a ella en la canción cuando nota que no había nadie más cantándola:
White House has opened a second front - in Europe. The objective: disarm the EU's Digital Services Act, which forces major platforms to moderate content or face billions in fines. The method: threats/intimidation. In December 2025, five people, including the EU's former technology commissioner, were banned from entering the US for allegedly "censoring American free speech". The chair of the House Judiciary Committee publishes reports naming European Commission officials, and at least three European NGOs have received letters demanding they hand over internal documents. The secretary of state instructed diplomats to lobby European capitals for the repeal of the DSA. Germany's digital affairs minister, after meeting with an American diplomat, publicly declared that European regulation had "gone too far". American diplomats lobby against another country's law in another country's capital. Sovereign states take note and schedule another meeting. The EU built a law whose enforcement it made dependent on NGOs - and now stands by watching as someone systematically neutralises those very NGOs. American politicians send letters to European NGOs and the NGOs are scared - Brussels, in response, "stands behind them" and steps out for a coffee. The EU passed a law regulating companies worth trillions, then effectively outsourced evidence-gathering to organisations that live on grants, have no investigative powers, and can be intimidated by a letter from a congressman. This is an architectural problem. USA merely exposed it. A separate question remains: what happens when law enforcement depends on organisations that are, by definition, NON-governmental. https://t.co/RgArcUtszm
"I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good
On this day in 1959, the Dave Brubeck Quartet recorded “Take Five”
Two years later it became a surprise hit and the biggest-selling jazz single ever.
Revived since in numerous movie and television soundtracks, the piece still receives significant radio airplay. The single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996.
Pete Hegseth has taken Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou off of the library shelves, but left two copies of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the library.
Just consider that for a minute: midshipmen can now read the antisemitic manifesto of one of history’s most evil men but god forbid they read the autobiography of a Black woman recounting her lived experience.