It’s been all over the blogosphere about the opera song Nessun Dorma, performed by Christopher Macchio at the close of Republican National Convention a few days ago. Rumors and speculation abounds about the choice, and we may never know for sure what the intention was behind it on this particular night, at this most amazing (and frankly, confusing) moment in the Earth experience.
But we can surely make an educated guess.
Here’s what I’ve found, most of which you may already be aware:
Nessun Dorma (Italian for “no one sleeps”) is the music playing at the end of the movie, The Sum of All Fears. I haven’t seen the film, but the synopsis is weirdly parallel to what’s unfolding on stage now…
The bad guys recover an unexploded nuke. They ship it to America concealed in a vending machine that was placed in a football stadium where the President will be attending a game. They explode it and blow up the stadium, but the President survives.
The Uranium in the bomb was traced back to the U.S., and Russia is framed/blamed for the attack in an attempt to start WW3 between the USA & Russia. Tensions rise as the two countries approach war.
In the end, with not a moment to spare before nuclear retaliation begins, both Presidents are made aware of the truth, and catastrophe is avoided. In the final minutes of the movie, Nessun Dorma plays while the scene cuts back and forth between showing the President signing an Order, and then showing a Deep State terrorist being executed, then another Order, and a different execution, etc.
There were ten Q drops that mentioned The Sum of All Fears.
English lyrics to Nessun Dorma
None shall sleep, None shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess, In your cold room,
Watch the stars, That tremble with love And with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me,
My name no one shall know,
No… no… On your mouth, I will tell it,
When the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!
As previously noted, the film clip in question includes implied executions, because there’s no actual gory detail. The inference that we desire is, of course, that we (the Earth collective) are approaching the end of the real life movie that we’ve been struggling through. Happy thought, there, eh? The cherry on top is that the bad guys all get removed from the picture in a final delivery of Justice.
Sounds good to me!