Gianni Truvianni's "New York's Opera Society" Chapter 33
Gianni Truvianni's "New York's Opera Society" Chapter 33
I then saw that my presence had interrupted their conversation. Them being at difficulty to get it started again, so in order to break that silence that tends to creep in when all are looking at each other waiting for someone to hit upon a subject all can join in I said looking at Gosia; hoping she had not noticed the way I had been looking at Anna. I, at least confident that Gosia would not have said anything even if she had. " Gosia, mother wants us to start night's performance with that song you and I worked on; you know the one I will sing with Amanda, drinking song from La Traviata". "Yes, I know; what time does your mother want us to start?" was Gosia's question as she and Anna smirked with one another, as if they found
humor in me. I even got the feeling that they both knew or had suspected that I would find Anna attractive and that my discretion or lack of it had given me away.
There is something about someone laughing that for some reason makes people around them do likewise, even if these people do not know why the people they are joining in laughter were laughing in the first place; so me not being one to do this simple thought of my answer and said "She said I can start when I thought It was a good time and I think now is a good time; so if you will help me get the rest of them? I will tell our guests to come in to the music room, where the performance shall take place.". Gosia and I then excused ourselves from Anna and Mr. Fox who continued their conversation as Gosia and I went about what we had to do to get ready for the performance, which included not only getting ourselves ready as well as the others but telling the guests that there was a small concert ready to begin.
It did not take long for everyone to get into the music room or to at least try. As some had to hear the music from outside; given that the music room was not large enough to seat or even stand 200 guests.
"Liabiamo nel Caletici" started with Gosia sitting at the piano and Amanda and I singing it, standing next to it in a music room that was crowded by most of the members of New York's opera society, who seemed to take more notice during our performance of this song to the way Anna moved by herself; almost dancing to the aria than to the way Amanda and I were singing it. As I looked up I could not avoid seeing Anna looking at me with the same smile that she had shared with Gosia, when the two seemed to be having fun at perhaps my infatuation. The way she was moving her hips, in a standing position to this song seemed
to be as silly as it was attractive or at least to me but I can tell by the way everyone else was looking at her that her moves had caught; not only their admiration but also the spirit of this song. This however was not as surprising as what came when we got to the end of the song which was that several in the audience started to swing the upper part of their bodies, like she was doing.
The next aria Amanda and I did was " Laccira de la Mano" by Mozart from "Don Giovanni"; a piece that though less vivacious than the previous also made Anna move around though not in the same way as before. Maybe it was the drinks but for some reason this woman seemed to be really enjoying this kind of music in a way that was visible to everybody, specially me who had become so fascinated by her that I was now starting to fear missing a note. Something that I knew my mother would never let me hear the end of.
Most people who enjoy opera music only do so in their mind but very few, come to think of it almost nobody moved their body to it in any way but this girl was doing it. I even noticed my mother looking at her, trying not to break out in a laughter of joy more than hilarity.
When the three of us finished this number, we got our round of applause, some of which must have been intended for this spectator who had perhaps even out performed us. Amanda and I were followed by the next person my mother had asked to perform, who happened to be Barbara. Barbara was going to be singing Cherubino's aria from the first act of "La Noce de Figaro" by Mozart. This was the same aria which was heard for a very brief moment in the film "The Godfather"; in one of the wedding scenes at the start of the film.
Given the limited amount of space in the music room Gosia, Amanda and I went to another room in the house to listen to Barbara sing with Brad and Anna; who seemed to be following Gosia where ever she went. What struck me as being strange about this was not the fact that they went every where together but that they held hands while doing so; not that I thought that this was a sign of bisexuality in Gosia or Anna. It being more that something of the sort was not for the most part done in the United States though I had seen that in parts of Eastern and Central Europe; it was not uncommon for straight girls to walk hand in hand or to even sit on one another's lap on a crowed bus.
It was Amanda who suggested going into the family room, where we knew we would find enough places for all of us to sit, now that most had crowded into the music room to witness the main event of the evening. I remember sitting down and listening to Barbara's singing, while Brad told Gosia, Anna, Arturo, Amanda and me, how he thought that a party; specially a large one like this one was really several small parties in one. At first his comment took me of guard, as I did not get his meaning but before I could ask him to clarify his point of view; Anna cried out not loudly but in voice that carried out through out the room "What you mean?". Brad at first had trouble in understanding her but after a second or two of hesitation, started explaining in a semi drunken tone. The kind that makes mortal men in to philosophers or at least in their own minds. His explanation claimed that in every party you get several small groups of people and it was as if these people were having their own party within the grand party; every group being made up of its own guests and choosing its own subjects of conversation.
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