MOZART - LE NOZZE DI FIGARO 1786 with double subs It-Eng

Agapò te Musikè 2

Agapò te Musikè 2

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0:13:46 - “Se vuol ballare, signor contino, il chitarrino le suonerò”: It’s difficult to render into English the pun of the initial verses of this Cavatina: in Italian, the verb “suonare” (to play) can mean also “to beat somebody” (for example in the idiomatic  expression “suonarle a qualcuno” , something like “to give someone a beating”).  Besides, the word “chitarrino” (literally “little guitar”), it’s one of the ancient popular ways to say (and not to say)... the rear end.  It follows that Figaro would gladly make the Count dance (or even caper) kicking his arse! At least a symbolic revenge of that “sacrilegious kick” Mozart had received up his backside  from Count Arco, chief steward of the Archbishop of Salzburg, five years before, when he asked to took leave of his angry employer.

La Contessa d’Almaviva  MARCELLA ORSATTI TALAMANCA
Il Conte d’Almaviva  PIETRO SPAGNOLI
Susanna  DIANA DAMRAU
Figaro  ILDEBRANDO D’ARCANGELO
Cherubino  MONICA BACELLI
Marcellina  JEANNETTE FISHER
Bartolo  MAURIZIO MURARO
Barbarina  ORIANA KURTESHI
Don Basilio  GREGORY BONFATTI
Don Curzio  NICOLA PAMIO
Antonio  MATTEO PEIRONE
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Direttore GÉRARD KORSTEN
Regia GIORGIO STREHLER
Stagione 2006 (250° anniversario della nascita di Mozart)

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