Non più andrai (Le nozze di Figaro)

[jejjy92]

NOOOO cherubino è una donna!! T.T

[MiyaHORNY]

I can speak italian, I'm italian.

[adv20]

19 people didn't enjoy "Amadeus"

[PEPEDEBARRO]

The voice is bravissima and the performance very funny.

[raganellabianca1]

Io adoro sta canzone! Bravissimo Furlanetto!

[domitius4]

to @Doubelgauss: stop it there with your stupid posts!

[aragorn1780]

thumbs up if Amadeus brought you here

[m2dff]

keith fucking melling in action

[AnneSofieLovesMozart]

hmmm.. not a very good edition i think..i like the one with herman Prey as Figaro, 1968, much better

[BINGFRYSRDUN]

salieri march.

[sugardaddy815]

That's,,, GREAT!!



[DoubleGauss]

Cherubino must have a very small penis. Very, very, small. I mean barely visible.

[scordeteyla]

@DoubleGauss or he doesn't actually have one...

[yuta1010blog]

@DoubleGauss but it was big enough to make the countess pregnant...

[jiaojoyce]

Who are the people in this song? What is happening?

[yourfellowmusician]

a bit slow? Mozart would be proud though

[TommyHaegin]

I think it is a little slow all in all. Who's the conductor?

[scordeteyla]

@TommyHaegin Bernard Haitink

[TommyHaegin]

@scordeteyla Thanks! If he was still alive then I would have guessed it could be Karajan. Saw his late Don Giovanni in Salzburg and it showed the same somewhat "heavy" hand. I like it a little bit more "playful", ust my opinion.

[storino89]

@TommyHaegin Slow????? It's a Allegro, not's a Presto con fuoco

[perpieta]

He is freaking great as Figaro. Love FF's expression at the end when he bows to the Count.

[amadeus5889]

I saw a Los Angeles Opera production of Le Nozze where Cherubino starts crying and wailing at the top of his/her voice at the end of this aria. Hysterical.

[devilxhlywood]

If a finer piece of music has been crafted I haven't heard it.

[jezziebabes72]

god, this gives me bloody goosebumps all over. The music underneath the vocals is stunning.

[Tyrfingr]

@jezziebabes72 Yes indeed. And i believe it is section at the 2 minute mark that Mozart was playing on the harpsichord in the movie Amadeus when he ellaborated on the piece by Salieri.

[Tecktoprincess]

Che meraviglia! 15 persone ignorano cosa sia la vera musica!

[m2dff]

Keith Melling.

[scordeteyla]

@m2dff what?

[GnomonWorkshopFan]

@scordeteyla Keith Melling Indeed

[scordeteyla]

@GnomonWorkshopFan I don't get your joke, folks

[AuldLochinvar]

This is one of the best anti war songs! "Molt' honor - poco contante!"

A fine response to "pro patria mori"

[adamskyb]

Not that I'm complaining but why are baritone roles always filled with bass-baritones?? Poor baritones get all their roles taken...

[scordeteyla]

@adamskyb

in this case this isn't really a baritone role, it is a bass role, for basso cantate in fact :)

[adamskyb]

@scordeteyla Yea I guess, but I've heard and read that it's for baritones as well.  Even Don Giovanni is a baritone, not even a low one yet all the basses get it

[scordeteyla]

@adamskyb Dunno about that :-) I always thought a lot of baritones get the bass-baritone roles. Maybe you can give me some examples?

[adamskyb]

@scordeteyla Well Ramey takes the lowest lows and the highest baritone roles it seems. Like Don Giovanni, that role is always taken by basses: Ramey, Siepi, Terfel. Escamillo tends to be bass-baritones, which is a understandable considering it's a little lower but it's still really for baritones. I just rarely see baritones in these roles on video. Maybe I've just missed them. If I was a bass-baritone I'd take 'em too. Unfortunately I'm not lol.

[fenriz218]

@scordeteyla Personally, I prefer them with lemon sauce and avocado, although I'm more of a trout-guy. Nice music, by the way ... :)

[mzltv]

I disagree.

[scordeteyla]

@mzltv to what?

[ComradeDragon]

@mzltv I disagree with your disagreement.

[MsMoonlightstar]

bravoooooo!!

[HerrWarja]

Everything is perfect here. His singing is amazing, but why is Figaro dressed like a nobalman. He is a servant is he not?

[bodiloto]

preferisco le interpretazioni di raimondi e van dam .

[WhiteProfondo]

His deep notes aren´t vey powerful and he always sounds...funny, I can´t be helped^^

[scordeteyla]

i heartily disagree, because he is bass, it's more probable that his higher notes are like weak... which they are not.

and in my opinion, what you call funny, distinguishes him from other (boring) singers and that's why he's so cool!

but that's only my humble opinion

(how bout "i can't help myself", when you wanted to say "ich kann mir nicht helfen"?)

grüßle

[WhiteProfondo]

(means,that Feruccio is a type of bass buffo who really is one,no doubt,but he no chance in my opinion to sing any other repertoire and thats totally ok, I´m a basso profondo and I can´t sing heavy bass buffo roles either very well besides Osmin and Van Bett because my voice is too heavy and not frisky, maybe YOU would call it boring;-) but thats fine with me, I prefer Cesare Siepi and Emanuel List relating to real basses.:-)

[scordeteyla]

I can hardly call your voice boring, because I don't know what you sound like.

They are certain types of voices, which I can't really classify, because it's nothing to do with pitch, but everything with timbre. Some singers' voices really sound stuck-up in my ears and Furlanetto's voice for instance, sounds natural and unique to me, which you probably call funny.

and isn't Figaro a bass buffo role?

[WhiteProfondo]

Yes, I would say so but I like more dark voices like Gottlob Frick who also was a very good (heavy) bass buffo and also sang basso profono- repertoire which wasn´t his real strenght in my opinion.

I don´t think that I sound very natural, if you want to but I try to keep it, if you want I can send you a recording of mine.

[scordeteyla]

I'd sure love that, if it's no inconvenience like...

I don't know Gottlock Frick, but I can't say that I dislike voices because they are dark - because actually I prefer dark voices to higher ones in the end. And there are singers who sing Figaro and I think they are too high... I suppose I wouldn't have much of a problem with your voice then :)

Are you like a real opera singer?

[LifeJuice90]

It is funny because though I like Frick, I always thought his high notes sounded hilarious. He was all over the place when he sang Osmin. Ferruccio has a very Mozartian voice. It has feeling to it. It makes him the best buffo, but he can sing Verdi as dark as anyone.

[danutpopescu1]

superb!

[Jragir]

While his voice is amazing, his breaths are too loud. This is not a difficult breathing Aria, like queen of the night, and so I feel like that detracts from his credibility.

[scordeteyla]

really? i hardly hear him breathing, and i'm not deaf... can you specify when his breathing is especially loud in your opinion?

[Jragir]

Very beginning, his breaths are pretty as towards the end when he's singing "Cherubino a la Vitoria!"

[scordeteyla]

Well, if you say so :)

If anything i can see his breathing is heavier at the beginning, but i've no problem with that... ^^

[nunobasso]

With all do respect to all, this is a much dificult role for a bass than a baritone. As much as the pich is at A=442/3 Hz... Furlanetto has a much powerfull and full voice even in high E. The best bass in our days. And I like Bryn very much...

[Quanhugo24]

Bryn Terfel is better, but this was good.

[scordeteyla]

I still Furlanetto is better :-)

[scordeteyla]

just pretend I said "think" too ^^

[ComradeSephiroth]

What was originally a light-hearted comical tune about military life has instead become one of the most gallant baritone arias in the singing world.

[scordeteyla]

or indeed a bass aria :)

[LifeJuice90]

Even Mozart knew it was awesome. He included it in Don Giovanni!!!

[Dogaradodia]

And the winner is...

Ferruccio Furlanetto...

Best "Non più andrai"

[scordeteyla]

word!

[K47454k1]

@Dogaradodia not that I'm saying he's bad it's just... there is a long run with plenty of breathing time before it that he had to take a breath in the middle of. I can't make it sound that good, but even with everything, there really isn't much of an excuse. Or maybe I judge too harshly.

[TommyHaegin]

@Dogaradodia only best if it's the only you've heard....

[LifeJuice90]

God. They need to release this or the Metropolitan version with the same cast on dvd. I would take either because it is just so wonderful seeing my favorite singer in my favorite role.

[acx852]

what scene fo Le nozze di Figaro it is? there say "second aria" but what scene?

[scordeteyla]

this is the 8th scene from the first act :-)

[acx852]

Thank you!!!

[operagirl53]

Outstanding! Thanks for posting this video!

[HerrWarja]

Translation anyone?

[LifeJuice90]

You won't go any more, amorous butterfly, Fluttering around inside night and day Disturbing the sleep of beauties, A little Narcissus and Adonis of love. You won't have those fine feathers any more, That light and jaunty hat, That hair, that shining aspect, That womanish red color [in your face]! Among soldiers, by Bacchus! A huge moustache, a little knapsack, Gun on your back, sword at your side, Your neck straight, your nose exposed,

[LifeJuice90]

You won't go any more, amorous butterfly,

Fluttering around inside night and day

Disturbing the sleep of beauties,

A little Narcissus and Adonis of love.

You won't have those fine feathers any more,

That light and jaunty hat,

That hair, that shining aspect,

That womanish red color [in your face]!

Among soldiers, by Bacchus!

A huge moustache, a little knapsack,

[HerrWarja]

From Amadeus! :-D Love it!

[WhiteProfondo]

In my opinion one class better than Terfel because of Furlanetto´s voice power and brilliance at the high notes, VERY GOOD!

[LifeJuice90]

And just because he is Ferruccio Furlanetto no bass or baritone can stand in his way because he sings both amazingly. And he looked very dashing as Figaro.

[WhiteProfondo]

Good Voice, very nice timbre!

[METALJACK89]

la mia preferita :D

[LifeJuice90]

Ferruccio Furlanetto reminds me alot of Cesare Siepi. His voice is similar but Ferruccio is more of a Buffo Bass.

[bestmaster3]

I'm not sure that the sound quality really gives the depth and dimension of Furlanetto's MARVELOUS vocal quality. He has one of the most voluminous sounds in a large opera house of any male singer of his time! He always "stopped the show cold" at the Met.

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[zhangy5]

he's a great actor. I like this alot

[Chiliarches]

He's really great...

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic!

[hotqueekboi]

I know this is supposed to be a bass aria, but is this singer actually a bass himself? His voice sounds far too light to me, and his centre seems too high for it, which makes me think this singer is actually a baritone.

Anyone else think the same as me?

[scordeteyla]

Ferruccio Furlanetto prefers to be called bass, but I think he's also known as bass-baritone :)

I also think that he's really good in this role; most other singers have much lighter voices than him.

[EmperorTiger]

My teacher, Jeffrey Black from Brisbane Australia who has worked with him describes him as Base baritone

[scordeteyla]

well, there you are :)

[jongenzanger]

The voice doesn't match the actions of Figaro... of course this was recorded live...

But his voice is too fluid for his actions and sarcasm.

[scordeteyla]

I don't agree; I think voice and acting are in perfect harmony :)

[Chiliarches]

No, no, the fluidity underlines the sarcasm...that's what makes it so sarcastic!

[totu1994]

intendo che nn è una marcetta ma ben altro

[antodrummer]

ignorante quale marcetta!!

[scordeteyla]

pardon?

[emila1103]

grande Mozart

[Esiryth]

Marcetta sublime e gloriosa!

[GarcioBass4]

Mozart ti amo

[patrickjohn84]

Figaro looks a bit too aristicratic.

[scordeteyla]

He's wearing the attire of the count's servants. I don't think that's very aristocratic...

[Alemagica]

non più andrai farfallone amoroso...

Ah poi io amo Mozart *__*

[eduardoromera]

Me gusta mucho su voz y su actuación. Bravo!!!

[williamriel]

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, il miglior compositore della storia!! Però per Salieri viva l'Italiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! Orgoglio nazionale!!!!!!

[wankmaster]

lol... i was astonished at how pretty cherubino was for a guy and then i find out it's a girl acting him

[DeMars3]

Nice!!

[MoLoSi3]

Narcisetto, Adoncino d'amor!

Che bello XD

[sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

tight song, go humans.

[LifeJuice90]

He is absolutely my favorite figaro. I would have said the same for siepi but he wasnt surrounded by singers as good as him.

[federerownz]

hey can any1 tell me where i can find a piano version of this song?!!

[tankcannon]

up my butt

[carlomirisola78]

AMAZING!

and btw spmfheart you are a cock sucker not the Italians

[igusai]

This is my favorite aria from Le nozze di Figaro :)

[Maratini]

try being less immoderate, spmfheart, with your expletives. It is widely known that profanity is merely a crutch for inarticulate assholes.

[arash505]

CHERUBINO ALLA VICTORIAAA! ALLA GLORIA MILITAR!!!!

epic aria... love it

[raimundos88]

l'aria più bella!!!!!!!!!!

[Ileniaimperatrix]

Adoro quest'aria !!!

[zegermans750]

Terfel does a better job of mocking Cherubino through the entire song

[scordeteyla]

Furlanetto is the best Figaro, especially in this aria. Terfel does not even come close.

[musiciansinorder]

I like them both for this role, furlanetto sounds bassy than terfel.

[ric3crack3r]

i like his voice =)

[VanVitot]

Mozart was Austian, the story is written in French, the plot is set in Spain, but the words and the names are ITALIAN like me! Da Ponte, who wrote the poetry of the spech, is the pride of us Italian people!

[scordeteyla]

actually, it was a French play and Da Ponte adapted it it and wrote it to be an opera :) and other languages are pretty, too, but italian is, admittedly, very good to be sung... ;)

[VanVitot]

I perfectly know everything about this Opera,i don't need your explanations.They chose italian lenguage beacuase it better expresses poetical sentimet,infact Italian is the most melodic lenguage.The most important poets are Italian:Dante,Petrarca,Boccacc­io...Without the Italian Poetical School,Shakespeare would had written nothing,everybody knows how much Petrarca's way to write influenced Shakespeare's poetics.You can love"Le nozze di Figaro"but you'll never love in a way we,Italian people,do.

[scordeteyla]

why do you talk to me in that way? maybe i didn't even explain it to you, but to other people who don't know it, eh? and there's no way you know how much i love this opera and whether you love it more. i don't need so much impudence as thanks for uploading this video!

[lookingforboludeces]

don't even try to get him understand my friend, italians are as rude and pig headed as horses.

[Mozart72694]

i will have you know, i have some vary kind frinds who sre Italian, you racist!

[elisaballerina456]

that, my friend, is one of the biggest lies I've ever heard. Some of them are pig headed, but most of us are very kind, so stop being a racist.

[spmfheart]

Haha. I knew Italians were cock suckers, but You sir, really take the cake! Congratulations!

[kove00]

It's the first time I hear this. never heard italians are well know to be cocksuckers...

however, nice aria.

[scordeteyla]

you're right :))

and this is what we should talk about, about the aria and the singing and not about some childish clichés...

[Mozart72694]

so sorry, but..... is the short one in gray supposed to be a man or a women? just wondering. :-)

[scordeteyla]

she's supposed to be a man :) a young man...

[LaPoetessaCalliope]

Cherubino is played by a woman;-)

[scordeteyla]

indeed :)

[EmperorTiger]

interesting

[LifeJuice90]

Cherubino has always been played by a woman. It is well known in opera for a woman to play a boys role. It was a woman at the premier so it has been ever since.

[mindygrahamkrauth]

so what...?

i am in love mozart anyway... are you?

what does it matter in the end ...anyway...?

boy...girl... who cares... what is your argument??

[BethDiane]

Yes, except that 1) neither Cherubino nor Susanna thinks it's funny, and 2) in spite of being younger, Cherubino is of a higher class than Figaro, so it's a bit disrespectful side to even be saying what he does, let alone rubbing it in with the body language. The only one who seems to think it's funny is the Count.

Incidentally, the costume designers are to be praised for giving cherubino the full kit as listed in the words: long hair, hat, feathers, and pink cheeks. Most productions don't.

[scordeteyla]

well, couldn't it be, that Figaro is trying to convince the Count that he is on his side to gloss over the fact, that he is actually plotting against him? Susanna isn't actually angry with him, when he comes back in act two.

And i do know that Cherubino is of a higher class (although we need not be bothered with that anymore) but if he's letting Figaro treat him that way, it's a tad his fault, you know?

[BethDiane]

It's a pity about the way they staged this aria. The actors pull it off wonderfully, but it's still supposed to be comedy, and this Figaro, who is irrationally jealous and therefore threatens violence against those who can't retaliate is not only not funny, it's completely inconsistent with the rest of the plot. And it's particularly sad, because other than that, this is the best Nozze di Figaro that I've seen yet.

[scordeteyla]

i don't think Figaro is supposed to be jealous, really. he's just making fun of cherubino, who is a guy as and can sort of handle a more rough way of teasing

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[HumanoidCarbonUnit]

Susanne Mentzer was BORN to play Cherubino!

Figaro does well too but I personally prefer Bass-Baritones over Basses. But that's just me.

[scordeteyla]

that's okay :)

[Dogaradodia]

Furlanetto has the best 'Non più andrai.' Wonderful orchestration! What orchestra? Who's the conductor?

[scordeteyla]

Bernard Haitink with the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester

[Kdarione]

Bellissima perfomance

[acecoo6]

Love this aria! acting is excellent.!

[izzigogo]

lovely tune

[patrickjohn84]

I love the traditional wardrobes of Mozart's operas. I hate it when they try to modernize the story.

[Sieglinde84]

I just love this performance :D

Furlanetto is one of the best basses. He is brilliant in seious parts and in buffo parts, too.

And I love bass Figaros. This is definitely a bass role. Baritones only suffer with it.

Not to mention Furlanetto is hot (he was perhaps the hottest King Philip, too).

[scordeteyla]

couldn't agree with you more^^

[steelgrrrlmai]

Is there a DVD of this performance available?

[scordeteyla]

sadly, there isn't...

[steelgrrrlmai]

Ah, tragedy.

[scordeteyla]

i hate to tell you, mate, but if you haven't heard of Ferruccio Furlanetto in half a century listening to opera, then you missed a lot. i haven't heard of that Pinza fellow, and excuse me for this, i'm only a stupid little girl. but the only one who can ever comepete with Furlanetto is Hanno Müller-Brachmann, whom (i'm not surprised) you haven't heard of either. your opinion is not the final one.

bless us, that we're able to have different opinions or our world would be a dismal one...

[coolcadudeingoleta]

I agree Furlanetto does a good job on this aria, but you might want to compare with Ezio Pinza's 1939 recording of the same song....it is superb as well!

[OperaSnob]

HARDLY "the best version there is." Have you never heard Ezio Pinza sing it?

[scordeteyla]

well, Ferruccio Furlanetto is certainly the best Figaro ever, ergo it must be the best version there is.

[OperaSnob]

ROFL! This guy, who I've never heard of in the 51 years I've listened to opera by the way, pales in comparison to Pinza! This Furlanetto sounds like he's going to throw up everywhere with every note he manages to spit out and doesn't handle the tempo too well.

[RomeItalyEurope]

Ferruccio Furlanetto, il più grande!

[operagirl53]

This was INDEED the most perfect "Non pi'u andrai. Who was in the cast, and where was that performed?

[scordeteyla]

Susanna - Dawn Upshaw La Contessa - Ljuba Karzanovskaya Barbarina - Machito Obata Marcellina - Klara Takacs Cherubino - Susanne Mentzer Don Curzio - Alexander Oliver Basilio - Ugo Benelli Il Conte - Thomas Allen Antonio - Alfred Kuhn Bartolo - John Tomlinson Figaro - Ferruccio Furlanetto Salzburg 1991

[RomeItalyEurope]

Ferruccio Furlanetto is the best!!!! I had hear him live in Rome, in the "Don Giovanni"... Magnificent!

[luciemg]

what is the name of the actor who plays Figaro??

[scordeteyla]

i mean it's kind of nice when you show so much interest, but i HAVE written his name in the description of the video. his name is Ferruccio Furlanetto

[LORDNITTIS]

This Figaro is Perfect!

[Sieglinde84]

A perfect Figaro - a real bass, what this role needs!

Furlanetto can do everything. Being a buffo or being a tragic hero, all with beautiful voice.

[scordeteyla]

i very much agree with you :)

[BethDiane]

Also,the implication made in the plays is that both Almaviva and Figaro were soldiers who served together. And If I'm not mistaken, the fancy braid hanging from Figaro's left shoulder are supposed to have some sort of military significance. So the other thing that's happening in this staging is that we're to imagine Figaro as a sergeant giving Cherubino his first taste of boot camp.

[scordeteyla]

interesting... i've read both plays "Le barbier" and "Le marriage" but i didn't see any of that. what gave you that impression?

[Dogaradodia]

Probably the best production of "Le nozze di Figaro" in recent memory. Excellent orchestra, props, costume and choreography. Bravo, Furlanetto!

[francescoco91]

It's the best interpretation of this aria I've never heard!

[scordeteyla]

i agree with you. :)

[tomate1974]

absolutely!!!

[Agorante]

I agree. Its the best interpretation you've ever herd but its not the best I've ever heard. That would be Tozzi.

[francescoco91]

Sorry for my ignorance, but who is this Tozzi?

[NatalineCole]

stupendo, soprattutto dopo aver studiato Storia dello Spettacolo musicale con la professoressa Mayrh....!!

[iaraculonna]

the final explosion is unbelievable

[leonardocello]

Beautiful!

[Dogaradodia]

Best 'Non Piu Andrai' on YouTube. Bravissimo Furlanetto and orchestra! Very nice to listen to over and over again. Excellent props and costume! I really enjoy this video so much. Many thanks!