41b. La Bella Ciao in giapponese de Los Marcellos Ferial
41b. Bella Ciao in Japanese by Los Marcellos Ferial

86. Bella Ciao cantata in lingua Konkani
86. Bella Ciao sung in Konkani

Bella Ciao Suomessa: Sergei Shaikhulin ja Kalle Virtanen laulavat Bella Ciaon italiaksi (*)
Bella Ciao in Finland: Sergei Shaikhulin ja Kalle Virtanen sing Bella Ciao in Italian
Bella Ciao in Finlandia: Sergei Shaikhulin ja Kalle Virtanen cantano Bella Ciao in italiano

Here's yet another version of Bella ciao:



(*) This is one of my first sentences in Finnish without using a dictionary. So, it may contain mistakes. [RV]

@ Riccardo Venturi

I couldn't have done it better, so forget about dictionaries.

How was the Italian of the two tenors? In my ears it sounded very Italian with the exception of the /l/ sound. Sergei had the Russian l and Kalle the Finnish one which are both slightly different from the Italian l.

@ Juha Rämö

The Italian of the two tenors sounds quite good, and I am not amazed about this. A large number of operas are in Italian, and no opera singer is dispensed from a good knowledge and practice of Italian pronounciation (in effect, I think most opera singers have a knowledge of the Italian language, however bookish it may be). As far as I am concerned, I often understand operas in Italian better when they are sung by non-Italian singers - librettos are often written in old fashioned, high-falutin Italian and cannot be readily understood on simple listening, especially when sung by native speakers. Of course, some habits of non-Italian speakers can be grasped, like the /l/ sound of both the Russian and the Finnish singer; this is only natural. By the way, these sounds exist in some Italian dialects; the Russian /l/ in a number of southern dialects, and the Finnish /l/ in the dialect of Livorno.