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Just because I'm in the mood. Still, sadly, not ending with, "And that is how the rise of Madonna is connected to the demise of the rocket industry in the United States," but one makes do.
First we have this. You can skip to about the 2:30 mark and then play for 30 seconds for the relevant segment if you're not into opera. (I will admit, I find the staging in this segment fascinating. In the only production of Aida I've ever seen, the segment with the priests is done almost entirely in camera, with Amneris having musical fits outside the chamber, and you don't see the priests or Radames, but you hear the trial. Then Radames gets condemned, dragged out of the chamber, and the priests come out and she has musical fits at them.)
Anyway, we start with this:
Which leads to this.
(For anyone interested, turns out that this is only the beginning of a full instrumental piece: "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2. I find it more than a bit overlong, myself, but YMMV. It was originally constructed as the backing track for a rap, which is why it sounds so weird on its own.)
And then there's this:
And finally, this:
And there's always a more recent version, if you're not a song traditionalist. I think that may well be the most overproduced version of the song I've ever heard. Or this, if you're not into grand orchestral versions.
(Properly speaking, that pathway should either have ended after the third video -- forward, always forward -- or somehow been circular, but damned if I could figure out any way to relate "Nature Boy" to Aida.)
And, just to end on an entirely unrelated note:
First we have this. You can skip to about the 2:30 mark and then play for 30 seconds for the relevant segment if you're not into opera. (I will admit, I find the staging in this segment fascinating. In the only production of Aida I've ever seen, the segment with the priests is done almost entirely in camera, with Amneris having musical fits outside the chamber, and you don't see the priests or Radames, but you hear the trial. Then Radames gets condemned, dragged out of the chamber, and the priests come out and she has musical fits at them.)
Anyway, we start with this:
Which leads to this.
(For anyone interested, turns out that this is only the beginning of a full instrumental piece: "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2. I find it more than a bit overlong, myself, but YMMV. It was originally constructed as the backing track for a rap, which is why it sounds so weird on its own.)
And then there's this:
And finally, this:
And there's always a more recent version, if you're not a song traditionalist. I think that may well be the most overproduced version of the song I've ever heard. Or this, if you're not into grand orchestral versions.
(Properly speaking, that pathway should either have ended after the third video -- forward, always forward -- or somehow been circular, but damned if I could figure out any way to relate "Nature Boy" to Aida.)
And, just to end on an entirely unrelated note: