L'anima ho stanca (from "Adriana Lecouvreur")

The story behind

L'anima ho stanca is one of those pieces that is recorded in a single breath and remains forever. In just two minutes and nine seconds, Bocelli condenses into that duration what others take minutes to convey: a blend of urgency and melancholy that doesn’t sound like a conventional operatic aria, but rather an intimate lament slipping between the notes. It’s not a song to show off impossible high notes, but for the voice to sink into the text and carry it along, as if each syllable bore the weight of something that cannot be named.