"Ch'ella mi creda" is a tenor aria from act 3 of the opera La fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini. It is the tenor aria sung by Dick Johnson (a.k.a. the bandit "Ramerrez") before he is to be executed by a lynch mob of gold prospectors led by Sheriff Jack Rance. In the aria, Johnson asks them not to tell Minnie, whom he loves, that he has been killed. Instead, he asks them to "let her believe" (the title phrase, "ch'ella mi creda") that he is far away, on the road to redemption from his bandit past.
| Librettist | Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini |
| Date of composition | 1910 (from act 3 of the opera La fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini) |
| Type | Aria |
| Spoken language | Italian |
| Instruments | Voice (Tenor) |
| Autotranslations beta |
Giacomo Puccini: Ch'ella mi creda Giacomo Puccini: Ch'ella mi creda Giacomo Puccini: Ch'ella mi creda |