Watch this. Listen to it. Let this beauty reach you. ——— ——— Then read this: The coloratura soprano artist you see is Patricia Janečková. In this video, she is performing "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" (The Doll Song) from Jacques Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann. Debuting on 7th of January 2016, she was only 17 years old when this was recorded. Just over seven and a half years later, she would be taken from us. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in the winter of 2021–22. She passed on 1st October 2023. She was just 25. ——— ——— Life is precious. Life is strange. Life is ultimately valuable. ——— ——— I cannot walk away from such a story without it affecting me. 🦉