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§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #51 is Canzonetta sull'aria… from Act 3 of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Although the play by Beaumarchais, on which the opera is based, was at first banned in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy (considered dangerous in the decade before the French revolution), the opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. It is now regarded as a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire, and it appears as number six on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
A central scene in the film The Shawshank Redemption features Mozart's "Letter Duet" ("Canzonetta sull'aria") from Le Nozze di Figaro when the beautiful little song Sull'aria was broadcast to the prisoners at Shawshank State Prison by Andy Dufresne.
Canzonetta sull'aria: Schwarzkopf/Moffo; Janowitz/Mathis
Post #1,108 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Letter Duet (Canzonetta sull'aria…)
§ ≡ One of an ongoing series of posts in which I pick, in my not-so-humble opinion, the best songs of the second millennium. Feel free to offer constructive dissenting opinions; preferably set to music.
Song #51 is Canzonetta sull'aria… from Act 3 of The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791). Although the play by Beaumarchais, on which the opera is based, was at first banned in Vienna because of its satire of the aristocracy (considered dangerous in the decade before the French revolution), the opera became one of Mozart's most successful works. It is now regarded as a cornerstone of the standard operatic repertoire, and it appears as number six on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
A central scene in the film The Shawshank Redemption features Mozart's "Letter Duet" ("Canzonetta sull'aria") from Le Nozze di Figaro when the beautiful little song Sull'aria was broadcast to the prisoners at Shawshank State Prison by Andy Dufresne.
Canzonetta sull'aria: Schwarzkopf/Moffo; Janowitz/Mathis
Post #1,108 § I Am Music and I Pick the Songs: Letter Duet (Canzonetta sull'aria…)
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