This song is from the Broadway musical of the same name. It's not one I was familiar with before I studied it because it's more recent (2004). I've been taking voice lessons for fun for the past 3 years, and I asked my voice teacher to suggest a soprano song from a more recent musical because I only know the musicals from before about 1985. So he suggested this one. I hope you like it! I only have two more weeks of classes left. Anyway, this is my first try at recording it. I can't believe it's almost May! Hope you're all doing well.

From Wikipedia: The Light in the Piazza is a musical with a book by Craig Lucas and music and lyrics by Adam Guettel. Based on the 1960 novella by Elizabeth Spencer, the story is set in the 1950s and revolves around Margaret Johnson, a wealthy Southern woman, and Clara, her daughter, who is developmentally disabled due to a childhood accident. The two spend a summer together in Italy. When Clara falls in love with a young Italian man, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own deep-seated hopes and regrets as well.

The score breaks from the 21st century tradition of pop music on Broadway by moving into the territory of Neoromantic classical music and opera, with unexpected harmonic shifts and extended melodic structures, and is more heavily orchestrated than most Broadway scores. Many of the lyrics are in Italian or broken English, as many of the characters are fluent only in Italian.

Here are the lyrics: I don't see a miracle.
Shining from the sky.
I'm no good at statues and stories.
I try...
That's not what I think about.
That's not what I see.
I know what the sunlight can be...
The light, The light in the Piazza.
Tiny, sweet...
And then it grows
And then it FILLS the air!
Who knows what you call it.
I don't care!
Out of somewhere, I have something I have never had...
And sad, is happy...
That's all I see.
The light in the Piazza.
The light in the Piazza.
It's rushing up...
It's pouring out!
It's flying through the air!
All through the air!
Who knows what you call it,
But it's there!
It is THERE!
All I see is,
All I want is tearing from inside!
I see It!
Now I see IT!
Now Everywhere and Everywhere!
Everything and Everywhere!... Fabrizio...
The Light in the Piazza...
My love...