Vecchia zimarra

Donald Hartmann, bass-baritone, sings Colline's aria from La Boheme. (Sitz probe recording from a phone.) I sang my first performances of La Boheme in 1983 singing the role of Marcello.
"In the course of his esteemed career, bass-baritone Donald Hartmann’s acquaintance with La bohème has been shaped by singing Puccini’s music for Marcello, Colline, Schaunard, Benoît, and Alcindoro. Here returning to the rôle of Colline after a two-decade interval, Hartmann sang and acted masterfully, his experience engendering a circumspect characterization of the amiable philosopher... but Colline’s stoicism was upended by the dying Mimì’s arrival. The profound sorrow evinced by his magnificent account of ‘Vecchia zimarra, senti’ wholly justified singing the aria at a tempo somewhat slower than Puccini’s intended Allegretto moderato, and, in Hartmann’s performance, Colline’s understated act of charity, giving the proceeds of the sale of his coat to Musetta in reimbursement of her sacrifice for Mimì, was uncommonly touching."
Joseph Newsome, Voix des arts