Thursday 4 January 2007

Lucia Popp & Gundula Janowitz : "Sull' aria"

If you have seen the movie 'Shawshank Redemption' then you know the scene where Andy hijacks the prison public address system to broadcast "Sull'aria" from 'The Marriage of Figaro'. The duet, also called "The Letter Duet," is the Countess dictating a letter to her maid, Susanna, to give to her husband the Count to meet Susanna in the forest for a romantic tryst (they are setting him up to foil his plot to sleep with Susanna.) Click pic for flick.

Translation:
"A little song on the breeze
What a gentle zephyr
Will whisper this evening
Beneath the pines in the forest"
And he'll understand the rest.
Oh, yes, certainly he'll understand it.