DESCRIPTION:
Barbieri's Jugar con Fuego - Aria del Marqués y Coro de Locos
(Quien Me Socorre)
Libretto by Ventura de la Vega
First Performed: 6th October 1851, Teatro del Circo, Madrid
Date Recorded: 1955??

Manuel Ausensi - Marques
Coro de Camara del Orfeon Donostiarra
Gran Orquesta Sinfónica, Ataulfo Argenta

For more information about this zarzuela, please do check out this website www.zarzuela.net. You can also find the Spanish libretto and its translation there as well.

This is the last highlight of a series of highlights I am uploading from this great zarzuela 'Jugar con Fuego'. Personally, I've got quite an earthy sense of humor so I find this scene highly amusing. I hope you will find this as entertaining as I do. I certainly did. Manuel Ausensi launches himself into this tirade, the more furious me makes himself sound to be, the funnier this aria gets judging by the circumstances his character is in.

This is one of Manuel Ausensi's funniest moments on disc.