Largo al Factotum Thomas Hampson (Lyrics in Italian)

[TheChattyxWoman]

bravissimo questo è incredibile una voce che tocca l'anima ! ! ! ! ! !

(english) this is a very good amazing voice that touches the soul ! ! ! ! ! !

[SatchmoSings]

So utterly accomplished and done with utter, drop-dead poise; a true star.

[HalinkaMega]

Interesante...!!!

[owlcity288]

4:17 "I got this, guys."

[owlcity288]

i....want....him

[thedradvocate]

the only thing I culd do better than him is wlk with those two chicks with more swagg

[ThalliKoran]

Haha, It must be very frustrating to be his girlfriend/wife and have an argument with him. Figarissimo!!

[yosoyelfercho]

@ThalliKoran THE DIRECTOR LOOKS LIKE NEWMAN, FROM SEINFELD!!!

[prof585]

better is impossible.

[prof585]

Thanks for posting. Best record I know.

[dangard88]

Is the blonde who inroduced him a guy or a girl??

[tossJ]

@dangard88 She's an opera singer, a mezzo-sopran, iirc. At some point I remembered her name - sorry:(

[shortpuppy]

most amazing L.a.F ever., voice and acting, and sung by a young handsome baritone. noone else comes close. (there was another clip of this same performance with better sound but it disappeared.)

[rad2damax]

Hampson is the king. Nobody can sing like him, so much emotion, so much fun, and so much raw power.

[LordBizarre112233]

So, raise your hand if you pretended you were singing at the end.

[BINHWISK]

braviiiiiiissiiiimmooo, kisses from brazil!!!

[saladtongsofdeath]

was newman conducting??!?!?!?



[yosoyelfercho]

@saladtongsofdeath jajaja NEWMAN... FROM SEINFELD!!!

[prof585]

@yosoyelfercho LOL :D...

1991 Metropolitan Opera, Conductor: James Levine 

[Leader131]

Gino Quillico is much better

[johnmic64]

Bravo !

From Greece

[8x8MaVerick8x8]

Exactly what kind of affair is this sung at?

[oscarphile]

@8x8MaVerick8x8

This is a performance of Die Fledermaus. The person introducing Hampson is Prince Orlovsky, a character who hosts a ball in Act Two (I believe) of that opera. As a gag, there is usually a "Special Guest" who turns up at Prince Orlovsky's party in the form of one of the stars of the upcoming production the opera company is putting on; in this case, Hampson is the special guest and he gets to "promote" Barber of Seville.

[8x8MaVerick8x8]

@oscarphile Thanks!

[moorfan1]

@8x8MaVerick8x8 This was sung at the 1991 Met Gala, 25 years at Lincoln Center.

[DrRocky356]

a stunning performance (wish I could sing like that) lol

[johnmic64]

What a performance ! Bravo!

[GoblinInventor]

well, not just memorize. An orchestra teacher of mine once called what you need to do in this situation wood-shedding. You do it over and over again starting slow and working up and eventually you should be able to manage it

[yosoyelfercho]

@GoblinInventor I THINK THAT LANGUAGE IS ALSO IMPORTANT, FOR EXAMPLE.. I SPEAK SPANISH AND IT IS A LITTLE EASY FOR ME TO SING THAT FAST, BUT WHEN I TRY TO SING "INFORMER" BY SNOW OR "GARDEN OF EDEN" BY GNR IT"S SO HARD... WELL MY FRIENDS REGARDS FROM COLOMBIA!!

ANYWAY THAT GUY IS AMAZING

[GoblinInventor]

@yosoyelfercho ahh, that is true, going from English to Italian is a big change in phonetics for a native English language speaker. I didn't really think about it making the tempo difficult but it definitely does you are correct.

[jewelmarkess]

@GoblinInventor Opera singers train for years. It takes both amazing voice and a lot of training. One also needs a natural agility in the voice, not every type of voice can do it. They learn languages too, not just memorize words.

[HyperMushrooms]

It's good, but I wish he would have done it a little slower. 

[marwanelmounajjed]

that's the point(faster is better,it's the specialty of the song)

[HyperMushrooms]

@marwanelmounajjed I can understand that. I could not even attempt to sing it that fast, nor at all.

[marwanelmounajjed]

memorize 4 lines every day

that's all

[marwanelmounajjed]

dislike=jealous

it's the hardest song i ever heard,i will try to memorize it

and btw(super like)

[jewelmarkess]

@marwanelmounajjed Opera is hard and takes amazing talent and years of training. Keep in mind that while this is a concert performance of an aria, but when Thomas Hampson sings this role in opera (which he did), he sings a lot more than this one aria, it's part of a 3-hour performance with a lot of singing. Notice - this is the Met, a 3800-seat theater, and there are no microphones anywhere, the audience hears the unamplified voice, and the singer projects his voice so that he is heard.

[MalloryHoffman]

BEST rendition. 

[yosoyelfercho]

PRINCE POPPYCOCK!!!

[rockerape]

♪Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks ♪

♪for the lyriiiiiiiiiiiiics♪

♪Niceeeeeeeee wooooooooooooork♪

[AmericanAcquiescence]

Masterfully done. But the lyrics on the screen are a little distracting...

[opa301]

Awesome

[dorffmeisterr]

isn't that Anne Sophie von Otter???

[davidaguilar1999]

@dorffmeisterr yes

[kuskut]

Bugs Bunny's got nothing on Thomas Hampson!

[Trantum666]

Very good!

[oneoctavelow]

There is no real substitute for Rossini is there ? Well done - a standing ovation and well deserved.

[DasKammergericht]

Hampson greift die Alle an! Er ist so schnell im letzten!! A bold choice with "fortunatissimo" rather than "a te fortuna" - he obviously has this perfectly...

[fernandorujano]

di qualita di qualita I LIKED THAT PART

[CoryDambach]

I'm just stunned away that there are as many dislikes as there are on this video.

[dcams123]

I hail from a cultural desert and now I believe I have found my oasis

[DIEO1991]

Per un barbiere.... :3

[CFkimahri]

It's like a Classic Trololol... Awesome either way.

[jameslucjan]

Got to be one of the best performances of this ever. The energy is with him....bravo bravissimo....imense.

[cesal1234]

I have just one word to say: Bravo!!!!

[mikica563]

Just BRAVOOOOO!!!!!

[avidmrobles93]

Is that princess diana?

[TheClassicalVoice]

My favorite Thomas Hampson. But wherever goes, he is amazing!

[Hadra568]

I was hurt and off work for 10 weeks. Guess what I learned to sing :)

[chibimonse]

bravivisimo!

[MrLamontSanford]

That frog sings this in the park, and the cop arrests his owner

[ironmaidenfan7788]

this guy must get so much pussy, it would make me look like a chump

[SatchmoSings]

@ironmaidenfan7788 He probably doesn't anymore; this clip was made some time ago.

Decades ago, there was another famous baritone who would, after a sexual encounter, would briefly document it in a small notebook; his sons found them after he died.

[SatchmoSings]

@ironmaidenfan7788 I can assure you that going on 57 he no longer looks like this.

Still "in his day" what you pointed out was undoubtedly true, and, if he wanted it, the same would go for cock; I'm sure this drove James Levine crazy.

[YouveBeenKicked]

Robbin Williams is better

[jeffreykerr8063]

I could watch this ALL day

[catcheleverbeloved]

yay! tom and jerry!

[Degaldo911]

All those people in the back it looks like they still think they are in the Civil War times.

[meluzyna55]

Great!

[DIEO1991]

its so cooooooooollllll!!!! fuck yea X3 i love this song

[SisterUnity]

that was a damn good Largo al Factotum.

[Ethratian]

@adri5008sweden

This was at the Metropolitan Opera Gala in 1991 because of Maestro Levine's 25th Anniversary as conductor at the Met.

All the best

[jimmydu444]

Holy ****

Pardon my Italian

BRAVO!

[Vincenzo2010an]

allen is beter

[CainmosniMirrored]

This will forever remind me of Bugs Bunny

[kuskut]

@CainmosniMirrored Me too! I keep thinking Bugs will show up at any moment. It was the first time I ever paid close attention to this classic.

Great performance by Mr. Hampson.

[hazelwitchhazel]

@CainmosniMirrored LOL too funny!!! This reminds me of the Tex Avery version...in fact I'm going to watch it now. I believe its called Magical Maestro. *grin*

[salinas83ar]

@CainmosniMirrored

tom & jerry

[CainmosniMirrored]

@salinas83ar Watch Long Haired Hare. This song is in that cartoon and it involves Bugs Bunny.

[salinas83ar]

@CainmosniMirrored

great , thankU

[TheClassicalVoice]

@CainmosniMirrored Hahahahahaha!!

[AdriaFloriDeSoc]

@CainmosniMirrored This will also remind me of Tom & Jerry.

[1234poet]

@CainmosniMirrored

dont forget tom and jerry!!!!

[murfreeswhoro]

whoever put captions on this, it made it worse...really dont need to see laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaa in all white font in the middle of the picture its fucking annoying

[piercesonya]

4:16 :D

[Empressre77]

This was excellent...perfecto!

[Hadra568]

Beautiful!

[kongres7]

it's amazing

[deucejiggy]

He goes from 160 bpm at the beginning, slows it down to 155 and then at the end speeds it up to about 175 bpm AH BRAVO FIGARO!

[SatchmoSings]

@deucejiggy Did you have a nice cum over this?

that you're so amazed over this shows your knowledge of music . . . which is clearly ZILCH.

[LulyBrown]

I love it when he says Figaro... figaro figaro figaro and the faces he makes. GREAT!

[gary52100]

Bravissimo Hampson e perfetta pronuncia in italiano...

Emozionante interpretazione!

Tra le migliori mai sentite da me.

[SatchmoSings]

@gary52100 He's American, how can he do that?

[gary52100]

@SatchmoSings Really good, voice and italian accent, perfect! He is american men, but sing in great italian language! BRAVISSIMO!!!

[Vincenzo2010an]

great! allen and him are the best in this.

[IronbornMetal]

Rossinni? =D

anyway...great voice and interpretation!

[andres99f]

vote for this comment

[Durchlaucht1970]

To cloudz098 and broadwaykid96....both of you need to grow up and do some opera research. They are all dressed as characters from various operas and the WOMAN dressed as a man is called a "pant roll" in opera. Young male rolls or boy rolls were often cast using women because the voice parts were often wirtten to high for older men to sing the rolls. Thus the term pant roll for women. Besides, should it matter if someone is gay or not?

[toobinflabishnabob]

@Durchlaucht1970 Yes, thank you vrey much for clarifying to the crazies about the opera factor, and YES, it does matter if someone is gay.

[toobinflabishnabob]

@Durchlaucht1970 Calm down, Freakshow. Someone woke up on the wrong side of his mother's bed...

[Durchlaucht1970]

@toobinflabishnabob F.U.

[leonkennedy889]

@Durchlaucht1970 Jeez, dude! What is your problem?! I DO NOT like people who curse out my friends!!!

[Durchlaucht1970]

@leonkennedy889 F.U.

[leonkennedy889]

@Durchlaucht1970 Oh, yeah, that's just great! Don't you just feel the love in the air?!!

[toobinflabishnabob]

@Durchlaucht1970 Wow! I thought cursing was just for STUPID PEOPLE, but I guess dogs can too. Why don't you just crawl back into whatever craphole you were hatched from and die? Then you'll do the whole world a service.

[Durchlaucht1970]

@toobinflabishnabob Wow, you are so original and such big talk over a computer screen. What are you 12? Take your own advice and do the world a greater service you retard! I bet your parents were first cousins!

[toobinflabishnabob]

@Durchlaucht1970 Actually, I'm 13, and that's the closest thing you've made to a comeback in a while, now isn't it? Don't you realize there are enough people in the world to hate already without you working so hard to give us another?

[toobinflabishnabob]

@Durchlaucht1970 And, all I said was that I thought it did matter if someone was gay. I only respectfully disagreed with you, and I suppose you took it personally. Next time you feel offended, I suggest you work it out with the person instead of cursing them out. Have a nice life.

[murfreeswhoro]

wow cloudz cant even tell a male from a female

[mahimahimindy]

lol love the lyrics

[cloudz098]

Is the man with a notebook a gay??

[Barricade]

@cloudz098

Its a girl.

[cloudz098]

@Barricade hahaha I guest you're right!

[domoloth]

@cloudz098 that's a MAN!?

[cloudz098]

@domoloth MAN!!????? (with question mark) lol hahahaha

[broadwaykid96]

@cloudz098 I watched the beginning like for times it made me laugh so hard, That she man is hilarious.

[TheRockStar2be123]

@cloudz098 i think its a chick

[BorisCr]

@cloudz098 No it is German soprano Ann-Sophie Von Otter and she is playing the role of a young man (it is an opera tradition) What you are seeing here is an aria by Rossini inserted into an opperetta by J. Strauss II (Die Fledermaus, I think) Again, it is traditional in this particular operetta to include such ex parte performance.

[cloudz098]

@BorisCr yeah i know, I researched it couple of weeks ago

[Tomyum3000]

I love the subtitles, they're hilarious! Job well done!

[kaner333]

I don't know but this song gives me serious wood.

[LastDom]

What show was this a part of?