Hello I'm Kirstie Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

The program was originally broadcast in 1981 and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. This week are cast away as the tenor Giuseppe de Stefano.

Signor de Stefano, have you ever imagined yourself on a desert island?

Well, I come from an island, I come from Sicily, you know.

That's a big island.

Six million people, you know.

Yes, not quite the same, not what we had in view no

could you endure loneliness well not me it would be tough for me you like people

around yes now you have just eight records which may have to last a very long time.

Any age you like, what's the first one? Well being Sicilian, I'm coming from an island, I have loved one Sicilian song.

And this Sicilian song, which the English audience particularly always loved, I recorded this many years ago. It's called the Muteti

delupaleo. What does that mean? It means like the Palio in Siena, you know, that's a very

famous horse races in Siena, you know, that's a very famous horse races in Siena, the Palio.

This is a horse races in Palerbo, Sicily.

It is a song of victory.

And it's a folk song.

The folk song. The folk song. UyEhre.

Ukavad dutiva nichwar

o'eradu

unibut Une about barterra o'baratoo. Yeah, uyah.

Uyah. I'm going to be a barre tiv my

for a fivy.

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