Valeria’s aria from Mayo | Chloe Boelter, soprano

Chloe Boelter and Tongyao Li perform an excerpt from Tom Cipullo's opera Mayo.
Text:
I never thought a boy would love me,
never dreamed,
never hoped a boy would love me.
Who am I? I'm not pretty, I'm not funny,
and I'm certainly not smart.
I'm just a girl with no family, no home but here,
A girl with hand me down clothes, a girl with only one... friend.
I'm not frightened of this. I'm not frightened one bit
though people say I'm simple, and call me dumb.
I'm something now. I'm someone who is loved.
Until he loved me, even my dreams were less.
I never dreamed a boy would love me,
but now I do, and now,
and now he, he does.

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