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Vasto teatro è il mondo - Cavatina, music actually composed by Luca Agolini
from Act I, Scene 1 of the Italian opera La Cenerentola by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto: Jacopo Ferretti

Role: Alidoro, a philosopher and the tutor of Don Ramiro
Voice Part: bass       Fach: lyric bass
Setting: The mansion of Don Magnifico
Synopsis: Don Magnifico and his daughters have been invited to the Prince's ball. Don Magnifico will not allow Cenerentola to go along, however. After the rest of the family leaves, Cenerentola is left alone with Alidoro who is in disguise as one of the King's officials. Alidoro realizes the goodness in Cenerentola and tells her that he will bring her to the ball himself. She asks him if his offer is some sort of play and he responds with this aria, saying that the whole world is a stage.
Range: Tessitura:
D3 - E4E3 - E4
Translations/Aria Texts:
Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz (added 1997-03-31)
Vasto teatro è il mondo, Alidoro's cavatina from La Cenerentola

Vasto teatro è il mondo, siamtutti commedianti,
Si può fra brevi istanti carattere cangiar.
Quel ch'oggi è un Arlecchino battuto dal padrone,
Domani è un signorone, un uomo d'alto affar,
Fra misteriose nuvole, che l'occhio uman non penetra,
Sta scritto quel carattere che devi recitar.
Odo del cocchio crescere il prossimo rumore
Vieni, t'insegni il core colui che devi amar.
Sounds:
MIDI version by Giovanni Borello
Sheet Music/Scores:
none
Recordings:
none
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