The Marriage of Figaro: Duettino - Sull'aria

AKA: Sull'Aria ... Che Soave Zeffiretto.
See: Duettino, Duet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Opera, Libretto, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Soprano.

References

(Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sull'aria_..._che_soave_zeffiretto Retrieved:2022-2-9.
- (On the breeze...What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3, scene X, of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. In the duettino, Countess Almaviva (a soprano) dictates to Susanna (also a soprano) the invitation to a tryst addressed to the countess' husband in a plot to expose his infidelity.

The Shawshank Redemption.
- QUOTE: ... “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.” ...