Watch Aida Garifullina perform the Bell Song, from Florence Foster Jenkins

Florence Foster Jenkins features a tantalising glimpse of the Russian soprano performing the Bell Song from Delibes’s opera Lakmé. Watch the full aria hereRussian soprano Aida Garifullina makes a cameo appearance in Florence Foster Jenkins as star singer Lily Pons; a well-placed reminder of quite how glorious an opera singer should sound and a corrective to the wincingly tuneless arias of Ms Jenkins. Garifullina was cast by director Stephen Frears himself - apparently a fan of the sing...

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