{"id":285131,"date":"2026-02-07T04:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285131\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:51:10","slug":"mariah-carey-sings-in-italian-at-olympics-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285131\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey Sings in Italian at Olympics Opening Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/095bce6aec8d704d241557d3ca18dbd952-mariahcarey-olympics.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  S\u00ec, la conosco.<br \/>\n                  Photo: Elsa\/Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmlabhjf2000i0igakndcbmi8@published\" data-word-count=\"132\">She can belt it out in English and Italian; what can\u2019t she do? For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/winter-olympics-2026-live-blog-updates-reactions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony<\/a> in Milan, Italy, Mariah Carey did what those in Milan do: Sing in Italian. As she walked toward the center of the stage in San Siro, she was followed by at least five people who helped <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Anais_Brosseau\/status\/2019853360766025978?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">carry the train of her dress<\/a>. For her two-song performance, Carey belted out \u201cNothing Is Impossible\u201d from her latest album in English, Here for It All, and \u201cNel Blu Dipinto di Blu,\u201d a.k.a. \u201cVolare\u201d in Italiano \u2014 the latter was Italy\u2019s entry in Eurovision in 1958 and became a Billboard No. 1 hit in the States. It wouldn\u2019t be a Mariah performance without a high note, which is a sound that is universally understood in every language.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mariah Carey showing up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinterOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#WinterOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Ev07LCaWf\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4Ev07LCaWf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2019853687502541170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmlbaaxd900113b7ax692iggp@published\" data-word-count=\"64\">Carey has been unknowingly preparing for this moment her whole life; her mother was an opera singer who frequently sang in Italian, and baby Mariah would practice alongside her. In her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/06\/world\/europe\/mariah-carey-performance-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">autobiography<\/a>, she recalled her mother singing Verdi\u2019s \u201cRigoletto,\u201d and Carey sang the song back to her \u201cin perfect Italian.\u201d So that\u2019s how people get decades of experience by the time they hit adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"S\u00ec, la conosco. 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