It was, as we all know, one of the signature arias of Fabio Armiliato's idol, il maestro Franco Corelli:
Ch'ella mi creda.
It's fitting then, in a way, that last night in Rome, at the premiere of La Fanciulla Del West at Opera di Roma, Fabio Armiliato as Dick Johnson brought the haus down so bad with wild cheering and crazy ovations that the only way to appease the furious joy of the audience was, simply, to give an encore.
And then Fabio, after maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti okayed it from the podium, obliged.
The critics approve.
