Web says it is....
......Non-Original Music by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (duet "Sull'aria... Che soave zeffiretto " from opera "Le nozze di Figaro")
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..........When the guards leave momentarily, Andy savors his victory - he leafs through a stack of used record albums in a wooden crate and finds a boxed set of Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" - Le Nozze de Figaro. [Symbolically, The Marriage of Figaro was about a valet/servant Figaro who outwitted his master Count Almaviva.] In another redemptive act similar to the one on the rooftop, he places the record Duettino: Sull'Aria on a phonograph player in the office, locks the doors and broadcasts the opera on the P.A. system throughout the entire prison to share a moment of freedom and make the prison walls dissolve.
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We went to a Nozze at the weekend!
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To get the full story, listen to Rossini's 'The Barber of Seville' before 'The Marriage of Figaro'.
My late pal (a man who used to scrimp and save from his wages as a printers' labourer for a cheap seat at Covent Garden every three months) always said Rossini was meat and potatoes, while Mozart was strawberries and cream.
After TMOF, of course, you can graduate to Mozart's double cream - The Magic Flute...
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I feel that Mozart would approve of the use of his music as a lot of his work was commercial soundtrack type stuff. Divertimentos and the such like.
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a900ss, I forgot to recommend Bizet´s Carmen, in which there´s many a good tune.
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Was going to recommend anything by Mozart (or else Carmen) as a good starting point. In operettas, Mozart's The Magic Flute or Strauss's Die Fledermaus are thoroughly enjoyable too.
As for ticket prices, if you catch the opera bug, it can be well worth planning a city break in any of the Germany cities that have an opera company, or indeed Vienna. While the best seats are almost as expensive as London, there are much lower prices available elsewhere in the hall. And in Vienna, you also have the option of standing places at the Staatsoper for less than 10 euro if you're keen to soak up the atmosphere of a night at the opera but don't want to spend big money on it.
Happy listening!
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Thanks for all your help guys,
a900ss
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One of the aria's in the Magic Flute, I was told could be sung accurately by only 6 women in the world, currently. And Britney isn't one of them
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I assume you´re talking about the Königin arias - whilst you´re more likely to hear them sung badly than perfectly, there are plenty of girls who can absolutely nail the high Fs every time. I´d recommend Diana Damrau - amazing singer. The RNCM-trained Victoria Joyce is another reliable queen IYKWIM....
Sorry for the lack of motoring mods.
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Driving (motoring link) up to RNCM at end of March to see youngest son in his first opera there. He is in year 1 at RNCM studying Vocal Studies as he is a bass-baritone. I know what you mean about the Queen of the Night arias - excellent driving music (second driving link) to counteract local drum 'n bass boom merchants! We all saw Marraige of Figaro at Covent Garden last year - brilliant production.
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