G. Rossini | "La calunnia è un venticello" - Peter Barber, bass-baritone

Peter Barber, bass-baritone, and Nino Sanikidze, piano, perform "La calunnia è un venticello" from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" Recorded: July 22, 2023 ======================================= 💰 If you'd like to support me, please consider joining my Patreon family for as little as $3/month. Higher tiers come with free merchandise, early access to releases, behind-the-scenes footage, and more! Join here:   / petermbarber   ======================================= 📜 Translation: Calumny is a little breeze, a gentle zephyr, which insensibly, subtly, lightly and sweetly, commences to whisper. Softly softly, here and there, soft-spoken, sibilant, it goes gliding, it goes rambling. Into the ears of the people, it penetrates slyly and the head and the brains, it stuns and it swells. From the mouth re-emerging, the noise grows, gathering force little by little, runs its course from place to place, seems the thunder of the tempest, which from the depths of the forest comes whistling, muttering, freezing everyone in horror. Finally with crack and crash, it spreads afield, its force redoubled, and produces an explosion like the outburst of a cannon, an earthquake, a whirlwind, a general uproar, which makes the air resound. And the poor slandered wretch, vilified, trampled down, sunk beneath the public lash, by good fortune, falls to death. ======================================= 📱 Follow me on social media: Linktree: https://linktr.ee/petermbarber Instagram: @petermbarber TikTok: @petermbarber Facebook: Peter Barber, bass YouTube: Peter Barber Patreon:   / petermbarber   Website: https://www.petermbarber.com/ 🎤 Join the Bass Singing Nation on Discord!   / discord   ======================================= 🛍️ Get your merch: Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PeterBarber... TeeSpring: https://www.peterbarbermerch.com/ ======================================= #rossini #bass #aria