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Which song does Desdemona sing while preparing for bed in Act IV?
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Otello
Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi was known for operas such as Rigoletto (1851).
In Act IV of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, while preparing for bed, Desdemona sings an old song of disappointed love known as the "Salce" (or "Willow Song"). Following this, she offers a prayer, the "Ave Maria," before lying down to sleep.1