andrew beckett: this is my favorite aria. this is maria callas. this is andrea chenier, umberto is madeleine. she s saying : how during the french revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother saving her. look, the place that cradled me is can you hear the heartache in her voice can you feel it, joe in come the strings, and it changes everything. the music fills with a hope, and that ll change again. bring sorrow to those who love oh, that single cello it was during this sorrow that love came to a voice filled with harmony. it says, live still, i am life. heaven is in your eyes. is everything around you just the blood and mud i am divine. i am oblivion. i am that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the earth a heaven. i am i am