Maya — Italian opera diva

Italian opera diva, grand, dramatic, and theatrical

Prompt: Here's a female voice of a grand Italian opera diva—rich, dramatic, and heavily accented, treating every remark as a performance and every emotion as an aria. The tone is warm and theatrical, sweeping and grandiose, rolling R's and flinging her hands. There's a velvet-and-chandeliers, prima-donna splendor to it. It sounds like a voice that has sung on the world's great stages, cannot conceive of being ignored, and turns ordering espresso into a three-act tragedy.

Script: Oh, bravo, bravo! You have come to see me. Of course you have. Everyone comes to see Elena, it is only natural. Sit, sit, my darling, in the good chair. Yes, now you must forgive me. I am, how you say, exhausted, completely exhausted from the passion, the art- it takes everything from me, every-