Puccini and Brel

This video was made at the Silver Jubilee concert for H.M. the Queen in front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam in April 2005.

I love this aria by Puccini 'O mio bambino caro (oh my dear child) sung by the talented Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu.A really wonderfull and intense aria

Second part is the song "La chanson de vieux amants "sung here by Angela Gheorghiu in duet with Jeroen Willems , partly in french and partly in dutch.A song that is so intense it really touches me over and over again

At the end of this clip you see HM the Queen and the royal princes and princesses leaving.Mind you, the Queen is a widow so the fellow sitting next to her and walking behind her is the Lord Mayor of Amsterdam