Willie WhaleDisney made one of the more memorable short films to use this opera with its 1946 short film The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met, known more popularly as Willie the Operatic Whale. Willie the Whale, complete soundtrack in English without video. The aria starts at 5:27 and goes to 7:19. Watch Willie The Operatic Whale (narration in Italian). The farce concludes with a chase throughout the barbershop as Woody doubles the tempo of his singing, until the woodpecker corners the man in the barber’s chair and proceeds to give him a shave and haircut at manic speed.
He proceeds to lather his client’s face, chin, mouth, and shoes while singing Rossini’s Largo al Factotum. Woody’s second and primary customer is a burly Italian construction worker who asks for “the whole works”. Finding the shop’s proprietor out for an Army physical, Woody attempts to cut his own hair and those of other customers. Woody arrives at “Tony Figaro’s” barber shop in hopes of getting a “victory haircut” (a then-contemporary World War II reference). The earliest using the aria Largo al Factotum was Woody Woodpecker’s tenth cartoon, The Barber of Seville, produced by Walter Lantz Productions in 1944 and using the voice talents of Mel Blanc. Woody wood peckerWhy is this particular aria so familiar? It has been used in at least eleven cartoons.
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