DUSHANBE, April 9, 2010, Asia-plus — Figaro’s cavatina from Il Barbieri di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) (1816) by Gioachino Rossini will sound on Tajik stage again.
On the occasion of the Day of Capital City, a solo concert of known Tajik opera singer Sodiq Nourulloyev will be held at the Opera and Ballet theatre in Dushanbe on April 17.
According to the Theatre director Kholmahmad Majidov, specialists recognize Nourulloyev as one of the best performers of Figaro’s cavatina from The Barber of Sevile.
“Sodiq Nourulloyev returned from St. Petersburg, where he took a training course, in 2005 and this will be his first creative concert over the past five years,” Majidov said.
Cavatina (Italian diminutive of cavata, the producing of tone from an instrument, plural cavatine) is a musical term, originally a short song of simple character, without a second strain or any repetition of the air. It is now frequently applied to a simple melodious air, as distinguished from a brilliant aria, recitative, et cetera, and often forms part of a large movement or scena in oratorio or opera.
One famous cavatina is Beethoven”s 5th movement of his String Quartet No. 13. Another cavatina that became famous recently is Cavatina composed by Stanley Myers, used as the theme music in Michael Cimino”s 1978 movie, The Deer Hunter. Largo al factotum, from Gioachino Rossini”s opera Il Barbieri di Siviglia (The Barber from Sevile) and Se vuol ballare from Mozart”s The Marriage of Figaro are also cavatinas.
