Browse: Mozart - Sull' aria che soave zeffiretto (from Le Nozze di Figaro) This page lists all sheet music of Sull' aria che soave zeffiretto (from Le Nozze di Figaro) (Letter Duet, To the Breezes) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). Check out Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 by Claudio Desderi, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Bernard Haitink Felicity Lott on Amazon Music.
'Sull'aria..che soave zeffiretto' (On the breeze..What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3, scene X, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operaThe Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. In the duettino, Countess Almaviva (a soprano) dictates to Susanna (also a soprano) the invitation to a tryst addressed to the countess' husband in a plot to expose his infidelity.
Music[edit]
The duet is scored for oboe, bassoon, and strings.[1] Its time signature is 6/8, its key is B-flat major, and it is 62 bars long; the tempo indication is allegretto. During the first part of the duet (bars 1–37), the Contessa dictates the title and the three lines of the letter and, after a pause, Susanna repeats the lines as she writes them. In the second part, the Contessa and Susanna read alternate lines with a slight overlap (bars 38–45) until they finish in a true duet with their conclusion. The duet has a vocal range from F4 to B♭5 for Susanna and from D4 to G5 for the Contessa.
Libretto[edit]
'Canzonetta sull'aria' | 'A little song on the breeze' (the title) | |
| and both conclude: | Ei già il resto capirà. | And the rest he'll understand. |
The dialogue, without the re-reading of the letter:
| Contessa: | Canzonetta sull'aria.. | A little song on the breeze.. |
| Susanna:– | –Sull'aria.. | –On the breeze.. |
| Contessa: | Che soave zeffiretto.. | What a gentle little Zephyr.. |
| Susanna: | –Zeffiretto.. | –A little Zephyr.. |
| Contessa: | Questa sera spirerà.. | This evening will sigh.. |
| Susanna: | –Questa sera spirerà.. | –This evening will sigh.. |
| Contessa: | Sotto i pini del boschetto. | Under the pines in the little grove. |
| Susanna: | –Sotto i pini.. | –Under the pines.. |
| Contessa: | Sotto i pini del boschetto. | Under the pines in the little grove. |
| Susanna: | –Sotto i pini..del boschetto..— | –Under the pines..in the little grove.. |
| Contessa: | Ei già il resto capirà. | And the rest he'll understand. |
| Susanna/ Contessa: | Certo, certo il capirà. | Certainly, certainly he'll understand. |
Both then re-read the letter.
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In popular culture[edit]
In the 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne defies Warden Sam Norton by playing an excerpt of this song over the prison's public address system. Norton sentences Dufresne to solitary confinement as a result. Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding remarks in his voice-over narration: 'I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. .. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.'[2] This is ironic as the opera characters are singing about a duplicitous love letter to expose infidelity, and Dufresne's wife's affair is the event which indirectly leads to his imprisonment. The duettino, sung by the sopranos Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz, appeared in the film's soundtrack.[3] It was nominated as one of 400 songs in consideration for the American Film Institute's list of 100 top movie songs, although it did not win a place on the list.[4]
References[edit]
- ^Le nozze di Figaro, act 3, scene X, Canzonetta sull'aria 'Che soave zeffiretto', Neue Mozart-Ausgabe
- ^The Shawshank Redemption at Wikiquote
- ^Tommasini, Anthony; Woolfe, Zachary; Allen, David (December 25, 2014). 'Onward, Elektra, Ariadne and Octavian'. The New York Times. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
- ^100 Greatest Songs in American Movies – The 400 Nominees
External links[edit]
| Italian Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- 'Sull'aria..che soave zeffiretto', orchestral score with Italian and German text (larger version)
A duettino is an unpretentious duet with a concise form.[1][2]Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart offers several well-known examples of the type, including 'Là ci darem la mano' from Don Giovanni, 'Canzonetta sull'aria' from Le Nozze Di Figaro and 'Duettino No. 3' from La clemenza di Tito, a song only twenty-four measures long.[3][4] He also described 'Via resti servita' in The Marriage of Figaro as a duettino.[5]
By the time of Gioachino Rossini, a duettino was a common part of the introduction of the farsa opera genre.[6] Rossini composed several pieces in the form.
References[edit]
- ^Fuller-Maitland, John Alexander; Adela Harriet Sophia Bagot Wodehouse (1879). A dictionary of music and musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by eminent writers, English and foreign: With illustrations and woodcuts. Macmillan. p. 468.
- ^Whitney, William Dwight; Benjamin Eli Smith (1897). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary. Century. p. 1792.
- ^Thompson, Kristin (1999). Storytelling in the new Hollywood: understanding classical narrative technique. Harvard University Press. p. 203. ISBN978-0-674-83975-5.
- ^Einstein, Alfred; Arthur Mendel; Nathan Broder (1945). Mozart. Oxford University Press. p. 410. ISBN978-0-19-500732-9.
- ^Sadie, Stanley; Laura Williams Macy (2006). The Grove book of operas. Oxford University Press. p. 669. ISBN978-0-19-530907-2. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
- ^Osborne, Richard (27 September 2007). Rossini: his life and works. Oxford University Press. p. 134. ISBN978-0-19-518129-6.
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