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Ukraine's Yuriy Mynenko performs Oh patria! ... Di tanti palpiti from Rossini's Tancredi, in the final of the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
Tancredi is in exile from Sicily and falls in love with Amenaide, another Sicilian exile. Although Amenaide's mother decreed on her deathbed that they should marry, her father has (unbeknownst to her) offered her to Orbazzano as a conciliatory gesture to bring peace between their warring families - which will also involve putting Tancredi to death. Tancredi is blissfully unaware of this and arrives back in Sicily in secret. He sings that it is his destiny to be with his beloved again and begs for forgiveness for the pain he has caused her.
