I look back on those memories with happiness even though at the time I strongly disliked cleaning and waking up early. She never missed that weekly show and loved the commentary from the announcer Peter Allen. As her kids, we always hated cleaning day but even though we were not opera fans I always enjoyed hearing the commentary and explanation of each opera during the intermission by the deep baritone-voiced announcer. She would wake up early and turn on the broadcast blasting it through the house and consequently waking us up to help her. Saturday morning was house cleaning day in our house and was also the time that the Texaco Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast would be turned on. I personally don't listen to opera often but I recognize a few songs here and there and whenever I hear Nessun Dorma or even Pavarotti sing it always brings me back to memories of her. My mother loved music and especially opera she had many records but her favorite was by far Turandot by Puccini. A few years later we moved back to the states to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. My earliest memory of my mother was after we had moved to Italy for my father’s job my parents took me and my siblings to see the opera Aida by Verdi I was only 5 at the time so I don't recall much or where we saw it but it stuck with me because my father died later that year. As a child, I was quite troublesome and I remember her scolding me often saying “Che cosa fai?” or what are you doing? She passed away in 2013 at the age of 90 in Memphis Tennessee I got to talk to her on the phone before she died but I regret not being able to see her since I lived in San Francisco. As a single mother to 4 kids, she made sure to provide for us. My mother Anita Angelacci was the hardest-working woman I knew.
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