Giuseppe Verdi
Traviata - Dammi tu forza o cielo - un minuto

Be patient, but it's still a love song. I'll stop after this.

Then, song is certainly not the right word. Not in this case, not in others.

But love, yes.

End of the second act. Shortly after the duet between Germont Senior and Violetta. A moment before that emotional hit that is Amami Alfredo.

Violetta is destroyed. She has lost everything. Everything. Life, love, hope, all hope. The reason - in two words - she explained herself, shortly before.

A moment later, she will say goodbye to Alfredo, the only thing that matters to her in life.

A moment later.

Here everything is still. It is silence.

Violetta is alone. And on stage, everything is motionless.

She does not sing.

From the orchestra rises an oboe.

And it sings - from nowhere - a sad and sweetest melody.

It lasts less than a minute. Then the Tragedy resumes. The waltzes, the parties, the sufferings, everything resumes.

For less than a minute, the story stops. Violetta is no longer on stage, there is the girl who loves Giuseppe. And they have told her - it's not okay. For the same reasons that - in two words - Violetta says.

Less than a minute, a caress, from Giuseppe to his woman.