La Spagnola by Gina Lollobrigida, 1955. English Italian subs

La spagnola, The Spanish Woman, a popular Italian song, sometimes classified as Neapolitan bolero, was written by Italian singer and songwriter Vincenzo Di Chiara in 1906. It immediately gained international popularity, lasting till today. Greatest voices of 20th century opera, like Rosa Ponselle or Beniamino Gigli were among those who recorded this piece. Another type of interpretation, associated with dance, was offered by Italian cinema superstar of the 1950s, Gina Lollobrigida, in the 1955 movie La donna più bella del mondo Beautiful but Dangerous ). The movie presents a fictionalized biography of an Italian opera singer Lina Cavalieri, who began her career as an actress in small, cheap theatres, performing in pubs the like. In her debut performance Lina sings dances La Spagnola. It s a fictional element of this biography, for the real Lina Cavalieri in 1906 was already an opera star, but never mind. Lollobrigida s perfo