I especially like the background music at the beginning of the film, a slow soprano singing with a hint of religion, from the aria from Handel's opera "Rinaldo", Lascia Ch'io Pianga "Let My Tears Flow". This sets the tone and theme of the whole film, which is destined to be a tragedy about sex and love.
Lascia
ch'io pianga
(Lascia La Spina)
(Cecilia Bartoli - Live in Italy)
Armida, dispietata, colla forza d'alissa rapimmial caro
Ciel di miei contenti, e qui conduolo eterno
riva mi tiene in tormento d'inferno.
Signor! Ah! perpietà, lascia mi piangere.
Lascia ch'io pianga, la dura sorte! E che sospiri, la libertà!
Il duol infranga queste ritorte, de' miei martiri, sol per pietà,
si, de' mier martiri, sol perpietà!
Alameda, you threw me to the ground from happy heaven,
Suffering like hell! God! Let me cry!
Let me weep bitterly for this tragic fate! Let me sigh for the longing for freedom!
If only out of sympathy for my distress, let grief cut the cords of pain for mercy.
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