“O Mio Babbino Caro” (O My Dear Father) is an aria from the opera Gianni Schicchi (1918) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The aria is sung by Lauretta after the friction between Schicchi and his future in-laws has reached a climax. The aria provides a contrasting entr’acte full of lyrical simplicity and unanimous love in the atmosphere of hypocrisy, jealousy, swindling, and feuds in the medieval Florence of Puccini’s only comedy. The aria immediately became a sentimental favorite and was also lov...