Mozart argues for Figaro

[GetlemanNightmare]

I know one gentlman who said like Moxart: " if they shit marbel !" *laught XD Bello, Bello, Bello !

[RideTheLightning316]

I can't find that damn octet anywhere.

[mtlcanadiensrule]

@RideTheLightning316 I think there's no octet actually, the second act ends with a septet

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

This is still kinda controversial today. It's about the droit du seigneur, the right of the count to take a newlywed's virginity (something PRIZED before women lost all self-respect - yup, the hymen/cherry has NO biological purpose other than to offer proof of virginity: "do not use if seal is broken.") and trying to trick their way out of it. I was 11 when I first heard the opera and didn't know what it was about for years - just because I didn't care: the music was the main thing. :D

[Haaglander]

A  very good film but historically a pain in the @ss

[playdrums]

the guy that played the Emperor was in fact a "vulgar man" in real life 

[arpeggio1358]

This was the first time I ever heard Samuel Ramey (He provided the voice for Figaro in this scene.) Even with only those few notes, I thought it was the most wonderful voice I had ever heard...and I still do! I sat through the closing credits at the end of the film, so I could see who sang the role of Figaro. I've been listening to Ramey ever since.  Thank you so very much for posting this.

[redhead529]

The voice of Figaro in this film clip was supplied by Samuel Ramey.

[ThatZazenIdiot]

Does anybody know what the unidentifiable slobbering Kappelmeister Bonno blurts out at 3:13 was?

[SDCmorg]

@ThatZazenIdiot He says "Bello! Bello, Barone. Veramente." (Beautifully put, Baron. Truly!)

[MacRief]

@ThatZazenIdiot Something with "Bella ..."

[SIRJOSEPHPORTERKCB]

If you've heard it...it's a very radical opera. It's no wonder that the elite didn't want Beaumarchis' play adapted.

[emanspi]

"I'm a vulgre man, but I assure you my music is not!"

[nitrate6971]

Joseph was played by Jeffrey Jones, who played Ferris Bueler's school principal, and he was the schlub husband in Beetlejuice, and he was Criswell in Ed Wood, but got caught with kiddieporn on his computer, and that was fini to his career.

[DartmouthAlum96]

I don't give a damn if it is historically inaccurate in some ways, "Amadeus" is one of the greatest films ever made.

[Boerenfox]

@DartmouthAlum96 - eeerm... that was the understatement of the century. The 'historically accurate in some ways' was no else than a character murder on a great musician as Antonio Salieri and gave a complete wrong idea of Mozart dying like a pauper.

[773SleepyHollow]

@Boerenfox Wait a minute... is that you, Mike? Mike Salieri, Amherst '98? Hey, what's going on dude?  LOL, still hung up on the "misunderstood ancestor" thing, I see...

[nitrate6971]

The real Emperor Joseph was an interesting character who wanted to modernize Austria and and get rid of all the medieval ways people lived. But he tried to do it from the top down(modernize cuz I say so). At the end the nobles, the Church, the peasants et al wanted their old customs, and Joseph died hated by everybody.

[tregnier279]

The guy playing Emperor Joseph II is very good for the role, methinks.

[Nattleite]

great movie, although it's an old production i like this movie much more than the new hollywood movies..

[explos1ve13]

3:35

[xCAGx77]

what an amazing movie

[inreanre]

In reality it was Joseph´s (and maybe Kaunitz´ - the baldy in green) idea to set Beaumarchais´ play to music. Due to his epoch-making reforms Joseph recieved very hard resistance from the privileged noblesse and he used the Figaro to keep them in check. Without Joseph´s encouragement, Mozart´s explosion of creativity wouldn´t have happened like that. Mozart then composed his fantastic music, without which the Figaro would have been forgotten today.

[levagn]

El mas grande genio de todos los tiempos

[singinginachurch]

MOZART ROCKS MY SOCKS!

[xysfere]

I think is the worse when my son spits up

[TsChIeWaUwA]

hey.... mozart the actor is great ,shut up .and dont swear at our componist ever

[mary6279]

Dear Ms. Eloveana, This is one of the exquisite ironies of Mozart: that such wondrous music could come from such a vulgar man. This is one of the recurring themes of the movie. It does not purport to be history, but a fictional story based on real characters. Indulge it a little, and I think you will enjoy the music's presentation. M.

[lagunavideos]

Dear Mary, won't please upload the whole movie? This is such a piece of art, I would love to see it all.  Thank you!

[oatboy]

The movie's plot is not very historically accurate, but the depiction of mozart is pretty accurate i believe. Read his letters to his father and you will find they are full with vulgar jokes about feces and ridiculous juvenile things.

[starerik]

Amadeus kicks ass.

[VixxieLou]

...I think he was already dead dasboten.

[dasboten]

Murdered the American you common classed twit. Fuck, some people are dead shits.

[Redfingers]

Common classed? There are no classes any more. There is no nobility.

Capitalism. Democracy. It's the standard the world over.

[firegoat]

huh course not, many countries still have a monarchy

[zeeprincesszee]

Which Opera was this from??

[grenpier]

From "Les Noces de Figaro"

[leoperarm]

Originally, "Le Nozze di Figaro"

[leoperarm]

Originally, "Le Nozze di Figaro"

[esotericapeman]

Well other than that split moment where he uses the obscenity, great scene! Probably my favorite scene in this movie

[HistoryGeek4U]

Awesome scene from a great movie.

[pianochick1]

I agree. Mozart was a true genious!!