As far as I know, there are not many people named after works of classical – or, well, modern or film, – composers. Well, someone may have a different experience, but among my acquaintances certainly one can't find Carmen or say, Attila or Ariadne. Besides that, it is usually inanimate objects bear real person's names, with Apple Lisa, the first computer of the company named after Steve Jobs' daughter being the obvious example. Still, to every rule there is an exception, and having been impressed with Alfredo Catalani's opera, Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini decided to give his daughter a name of Wally – a very good-sounding one, if you ask for my opinion. I can't help but join Toscanini in his appreciation of this work – it is nothing less than amazing. Download the score of the first act's aria here: La Wally. Air Wally 'Ebben? Ne andrò lontana' Act I.
Haydn's Miracle Symphony No.102
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