Majestic Mozart

Well, it is still Mozart Week, so I am sharing more of his music. And a statue of Mozart himself: the one you can find in Vienna. It is often surrrounded by tourists, who just take pictures of it because, well, Mozart is a huge part of Vienna and Austria, maybe its most famous composers. And I was there as a pilgrim, a proper worshipper in fact. That said, like many other portraits and monuments to the man, I find this one strange at many levels. He looks atypically regal and Greco-Roman godly here. Maybe a tad Messianic too. As much as I'm a sucker for the monuments paying homage to him, I can't help but find them incomplete. There's a lot of Amadeus in this statue, but very little of Wolfgang, even less of Wolferl. There's no mischief. Anyway, this post would not be complete without a bit of music, here an aria from from Le Nozze di Figaro. Sung by Rod Gilfry. Tell me what you think of the music and the statue.

I missed Mozart's birthday

Well, I did not miss it completely, as I remembered it at the end of the day yesterday. But I did not blog about it until tonight. Last time I blogged about Mozart and uploaded his music here on Vraie Fiction was a very long time ago, so it is about time I add some. I tried to find something I had not uploaded yet. I hope nobody minds if it is more opera. An aria I sang myself, here interpreted bu Erwin Schrott. it is Se vuol ballare from Le Nozze di Figaro.I know Mozart wrote so much more, but I truly discovered him through opera and it is by far this part of his work that I love most.

Je cite (encore) Beaumarchais

J'éprouve une certaine lassitude: c'est le Diamond Jubilee en fin de semaine et Jean Charest vient de mettre fin aux négociations avec les étudiants. Misère. Je voulais citer Beaumarchais à propos du Jubilé (la même citation faite l'année dernière), de la Reine qui est révérée ici et ailleurs par des sycophantes, mais je ferai d'une pierre deux coups et je dédie cette citation au premier ministre du Québec également, parce qu'il le mérite bien:

"Noblesse, fortune, un rang, des places, tout cela rend si fier ! Qu'avez-vous fait pour tant de biens ? Vous vous êtes donné la peine de naître, et rien de plus : du reste, homme assez ordinaire! "

Citons Beaumarchais

Je n'ai jamais lu ni vu Le mariage de Figaro, je connais plus la controverse entourant la pièce et l'opéra de Mozart que la pièce elle-même, mais j'ai cette citation en tête depuis le mariage (vous savez lequel):

"Noblesse, fortune, un rang, des places, tout cela rend si fier ! Qu'avez-vous fait pour tant de biens ? Vous vous êtes donné la peine de naître, et rien de plus : du reste, homme assez ordinaire! "

Ah, la sagesse républicaine!