I Sing Do You Know My Dear Mummy

Do You Know, My Dear Mummy is an important and also the most representative aria of the heroine Santuzza in the opera of The Country Knight, by Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945),an Italian opera composer and conductor.The author makes an analysis of the performing arts of this aria, which are mainly concerned with the following aspects: 1) The influence of emotional coloring on a singer's voice and resonance modulation. 2) The change of a singer's compass and her volume control 3) Emotional performance and language management. The author, with the above mentioned analysis as well as her own practice and understanding of vocal music during her learning process, makes a conclusion as follows: 1) Proper singing method is the foundation of art performance. 2) Basic training and technical skills are the way of art performance. 3) Emotional involvement is the soul of art performance. 4) Voice and expression is the ideal state of art performance.Through the introduction and analysis, the author hopes to offer a reference, skin-deep as it is, for woman mediant learners like her about the technical requirements and singing styles of bel canto. Meanwhile, the author hopes that more attention are given to opera production and thus further improve and develop the application of bel canto in practice.