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¿Qué quieres Panchito What do you want me to think,<br />

que me piense yo, Panchito?<br />

que me piense yo?<br />

Si después de todo If, after all we have been through,<br />

te pido un favor I ask you a favour<br />

y tu me lo niegas and you, full of rage,<br />

lleno de furor, deny me this.<br />

lleno de furor.<br />

¿Qué quieres Panchito What do you want me to think,<br />

que me piense yo, Panchito?<br />

que me piense yo,<br />

que me piense yo,<br />

que me piense yo?<br />

Gioachino Rossini<br />

Poem by G. Pepoli<br />

‘La regata veneziana’ (The Venetian regatta) [CD 1 Track 6]<br />

FREDERICA VON STADE & ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI<br />

ROSSINI HAD known Pauline since she was an infant. Just as her father and<br />

sister had triumphed in his operas, so many of Pauline’s early successes were in<br />

Rossini roles – Desdemona, Rosina, Cenerentola and Ninetta (in La gazza<br />

ladra). When they were both living in Paris in the 1850s, Pauline frequented<br />

Rossini’s musical evenings at his house in the rue Chausée d’Antin. ‘La regata<br />

veneziana’ is one of the duets from Rossini’s collection Les soirées musicales,<br />

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