Largo al factotum
Opera details:
Opera title: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia |
Composer: | Giaochino Rossini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia Synopsis |
Libretto: | Il Barbiere di Siviglia Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Figaro |
Voice(s): | Baritone |
Act: | 1.07 |
| Previous scene: | Gente indiscreta |
| Next scene: | Ah! ah che bella vita |
Gioachino Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia - "Largo al factotum della citta" (Alan Opie) (in English)
Singer: Alan OpieIt's fitting that the opera's title hero gets the first word, so here is his big aria.
Like most of Rossini's best pieces, Figaro's opening cavatina doesn't follow a rigid structure of "cantabile - cabaletta". The opening section seems to form the main theme which returns several times throughout the piece with contrasting sections providing expressive opportunities (one - lyrical, the other - fast, furious, just as the people who enlist Figaro's help). The piece never really went out of fashion and still remains one of the staples in the repertoire of any good baritone. The piece is so good that you would have to be a bad singer or just a charmless bloke to stop it from charming the audience.
Here Alan Opie sings the part of Figaro. His manner is a bit on the loud side, but it suits the character of the self-assured barber. Enjoy :)!
Watch videos with other singers performing Largo al factotum:
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - John Rawnsley
6 - Thomas Hampson
6 - Hermann Prey
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Tito Gobbi
5 - Juan Diego Flórez
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Alan Opie
6 - Apollo Granforte
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
6 - Lucas Meachem
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Christopher Maltman
6 - Alessandro Corbelli
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Pietro Spagnoli
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
6 - Peter Mattei
6 - Nicolae Herlea
1 - Maria Callas
6 - Mattia Battistini
6 - Jason Barry-Smith
6 - Seo Jung-hack
6 - Jonathan Estabrooks
6 - Mario Basiola
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Simon Keenlyside
6 - Muslim Magomayev
6 - Manuel Ausensi
6 - Pasquale Amato
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Mariano Stabile
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Erich Kunz
5 - Mario Del Monaco
2 - Anna Bonitatibus
5 - Raúl Giménez
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - David Malis
6 - Renato Capecchi
6 - Pietro Spagnoli
6 - Ruggero Raimondi
6 - Carlo Tagliabue
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Ettore Bastianini
6 - Gino Bechi
6 - Gino Quilico
6 - Giuseppe Danise
6 - Giuseppe De Luca
6 - Lawrence Tibbett
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Leonard Warren
6 - Nicolae Herlea
6 - Pasquale Amato
6 - Pietro Spagnoli
6 - Riccardo Stracciari
6 - Robert Merrill
6 - Rolando Panerai
6 - Russell Braun
6 - Sesto Bruscantini
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Thomas Hampson
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Titta Ruffo
6 - Donald Maxwell
6 - Thomas Allen
Other videos of the same singers performing Largo al factotum:
6 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Christopher Maltman
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Hermann Prey
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Leo Nucci
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - Piero Cappuccilli
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Thomas Hampson
6 - Pietro Spagnoli
6 - Sherrill Milnes
6 - Leo Nucci
6 - John Rawnsley
6 - Tito Gobbi
6 - Hermann Prey
6 - Leo Nucci
5 - Plácido Domingo
6 - Ettore Bastianini
Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
SCENA 2Figaro, con la chitarra appesa al collo e detto, nascosto
N. 2 - Cavatina
FIGARO
Largo al factotum
della città.
Presto a bottega,
ché l'alba è già.
Ah, che bel vivere,
che bel piacere
per un barbiere
di qualità!
Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, brayissimo;
fortunatissimo
per verità!
Pronto a far tutto,
la notte e il giorno
sempre d'intorno,
in giro sta.
Miglior cuccagna
per un barbiere,
vita più nobile,
no, non si dà.
Rasori e pettini,
lancette e forbici,
al mio comando
tutto qui sta.
V'è la risorsa,
poi, del mestiere
colla donnetta
col cavaliere
Ah, che bel vivere,
che bel piacere
per un barbiere
di qualità!
Tutti mi chiedono,
tutti mi vogliono,
donne, ragazzi,
vecchi, fanciulle:
Qua la parrucca
Presto la barba
Qua la sanguigna
Presto il biglietto
Figaro ... Figaro
Son qua, son qua.
Figaro... Figaro...
Eccomi qua.
Ahimè, che furia!
Ahimè, che folla!
Una alla volta,
per carità!
Figaro su, Figaro giù
Pronto prontissimo
son come il fulmine:
sono il factotum
della città.
Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, bravissimo;
a te fortuna non
mancherà.
English Libretto or Translation:
Figaro enters with a guitar around his neckCavatina
FIGARO
La ran la le ra la ran la la.
Make way for the factotum of the city.
La ran la la, etc.
Rushing to his shop
for dawn is here.
La ran la la, etc.
What a merry life,
what gay pleasures
for a barber
of quality.
Ah, bravo Figaro,
bravo, bravissimo, bravo!
La ran la la, etc.
Most fortunate of men,
indeed you are!
La ran la la, etc.
Ready for everything
by night or by day,
always in bustle,
in constant motion.
A better lot
for a barber,
a nobler life
does not exist.
La la ran la la ran la, etc.
Razors and combs,
lancets and scissors,
at my command
everything's ready.
Then there are "extras"
part of my trade,
business for ladies
and cavaliers …
La la ran la …la …la.
Ah, what a merry life,
what gay pleasures,
for a barber
of quality.
All call for me,
all want me,
ladies and children,
old men and maidens.
I need a wig,
I want a shave,
leeches to bleed me,
here, take this note.
All call for me,
all want me.
I need a wig,
I want a shave,
here, take this note.
Ho, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, etc.
Heavens! what a commotion!
Heavens! What a crowd!
One at a time,
for pity's sake.
Ho, Figaro! - I am here!
Figaro here, Figaro there,
Figaro up. Figaro down.
Quicker and quicker
I go like greased lightning,
make way for the factotum of the city,
Ah, bravo, Figaro,
bravo, bravissimo,
On you good fortune
will always smile.
La la ran la, etc.
I am the factotum
of the city.
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