The Anvil Chorus is the English term for the Coro di zingari, a piece of music from Act 2, Scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore (The Troubador) (1853) which depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn (hence its English name) and singing the praises of hard work, good wine, and their gypsy women. Most recordings will list this as Vedi! Le fosche notturne.

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  • The Anvil Chorus is the English term for the Coro di zingari, a piece of music from Act 2, Scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore (The Troubador) (1853) which depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn (hence its English name) and singing the praises of hard work, good wine, and their gypsy women. Most recordings will list this as Vedi! Le fosche notturne. In the early twentieth century, the Anvil Chorus was commonly sung by the spectators or played by a band when a player, especially an opponent, committed an error, or to "rub it in" to the losing side. References to this occur frequently in the sports verse of Grantland Rice. This chorus is often parodied in the Tiny Toons cartoons. Glenn Miller does a jazz version of this chorus. In the 1929 Marx Brothers film The Cocoanuts, Harpo and Chico play the Anvil Chorus on a hotel's cash register. In the film Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox bludgeon a safe and a mannequin, with Thornton using a sledgehammer on the safe and Cox a golf club on the mannequin, along to the Anvil Chorus.
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  • April 2009
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  • The Anvil Chorus is the English term for the Coro di zingari, a piece of music from Act 2, Scene 1 of Giuseppe Verdi's Il trovatore (The Troubador) (1853) which depicts Spanish Gypsies striking their anvils at dawn (hence its English name) and singing the praises of hard work, good wine, and their gypsy women. Most recordings will list this as Vedi! Le fosche notturne.
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  • Anvil Chorus
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