Marriage Of Figaro Shawshank

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Marriage Of Figaro Shawshank Redemption Song

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'Le Nozze Di Figaro', or 'The Marriage of Figaro', was the 'Opera Song' featured in the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'. From Wikipedia: Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a. In The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne plays an duet from Mozart’s comic opera, The Marriage to Figaro, as its Enlightened ideals represent Andy’s prison experience and its Classical characteristics evoke a sense of hope in the repressed prison.

Track from the Shawshank Redemption OST, uploaded by request. Want the Full OST? Then PM me for a personally uploaded link. Listen to Duettino-Sull'aria The Marriage of Figaro (From Shawshank Redemption) on Spotify. Opera Divas Song 2011.

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The beautiful Mozart duet from the famous Mozart opera that Andy plays for the prisoners represents everything that the prison lacks: beauty, a world outside the confines of the prison, sharing the wealth. The men listening seem to sense that and we see them looking up in wonder at the sounds coming over the loudspeakers—speakers that are probably used only for broadcasting threats and institutional demands. It's like they don't even know what to do with it, but eventually give themselves over to the music.

You have to wonder if it's fair for Andy to give them a taste of something they'll probably never experience again. Is it better not to know in the first place?

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Fun fact: the duet is about a woman planning to expose her husband's infidelity.