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Norina? She's nobody's fool. And reading this dumb romance novel is giving her indigestion. After yet another soaring passage about the chivalrous knight Riccardo and his unwavering heart, she looks up from her book — and gets ready to drop the real truth about love and seduction in the aria "So anch'io la virtù magica."

"I too know the magical virtues of a look at a certain time and place. I know how they fire up a slow-burning heart with only a fleeting smile. I know the effect of a lying tear, of a sudden languor. I know a thousand ways of provoking a fraudulent love, the habits and the easy art of luring a heart," she sings.

But her cynicism masks her own broken heart. She hoped to marry Ernesto, but his uncle disinherited him for choosing her as a fiancée. Now, she's wrapped up in a scheme to seduce the uncle — and relieve him of his money, so she and Ernesto can be happy once and for all. The whole situation is enough to make anyone bitter. "I have a weird head," Norina admits, "but an excellent heart."

See Heidi Stober in Gaetano Donizetti's comedy "Don Pasquale," streaming for free as part of the #OperaIsON series the weekend of April 3, 2021: https://sfopera.com/opera-is-on/strea...