the knight talking about his eternal love for his fiancee, leonora.re in italy, francesco meli, and, you can just tell from the reaction of the audience here that they loved it. bravo! she sings. applause. he sings. and the last performer is the extraordinary baritone, leo nucci, singing an aria for my favourite opera — rigoletto by verdi. applause. then the artistic director cecelia gasida joins in the finale — a personal triumph for her. the arena di verona has not been silenced. they sing. the title of the rousing popular neapolitan song which the opera stars sing at the end of the concert is o sole mio — meaning "oh, my sunshine." well, with economic downturns and warnings of new waves of covid—19, let us indeed hope that we can all look forward to a sunnier future. they sing. hello. well, for most of us, overall, today, the weather is not looking bad at all. we have a mixture of sunny spells, a few fleeting showers. that is pretty much it. if you are unlucky you might run into a downpour of thunder and lightning. or if you are lucky, depending on