ExclusiveMozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro - Brass quintet

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro - Brass quintet. This beautiful piece was played by US Army Band. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his comic opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) in 1786 in the style of the popular opera buffa of the late 18th century. In his genius, however, Mozart took the opera buffa style one step further, giving the drama real 3-dimensional depth, not only in the characters as portrayed in the libretto, but also in the characters as portrayed in his music. The result is a vivid, amusing and beautiful masterpiece.

In just a few minutes, Mozart's overture to the opera creates a crisp, sparkling musical gem that not only sets the mood for the opera to follow, but has inspired lovers of symphonic music for over 200 years.

opera-online.com writes: "Le Nozze di Figaro is probably the most wonderful opera in the entire repertoire, perhaps even the perfection of the genre. Mozart's genius allows the eloquence of his librettist da Ponte to shine through, after he has stripped Beaumarchais's controversial work of all controversy and concentrated entirely on the human element. The plot is humorous and full of surprises and unexpected twists that fill all four acts in a perfectly balanced way. However, behind all the humour and spicy exchanges, Figaro's rage on the one hand, the Count's arrogance on the other, Susanna's cunning and the Countess's melancholy are clearly perceptible. Mozart penetrates the depths of the human soul, heart and mind, and directs the interplay of love and chance with indescribable sensitivity. Mozart is the real organiser of this wedding. He illustrates the dramatic situations with brilliant arias, these arias become duets, the duets become trios, the trios become tutti, and especially in the finale of the second act and in the middle of the third act, these ensembles express a perfect symbiosis of theatre and music".

The video was shot by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.





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