:06:00
- Eight minutes?
- Twenty, sire. Twenty minutes!
:06:04
Twenty minutes of continuous music.
No recitatives!
:06:09
Sire, only opera can do this.
:06:11
In a play, if more than one person
speaks at once...
:06:15
...it's just noise.
:06:17
But with opera, with music...
:06:20
...you can have 20 individuals
all talking at the same time.
:06:24
It's not noise.
It's a perfect harmony!
:06:27
Mozart, music is not the issue here.
:06:30
No one doubts your talent. It's your
literary judgment that's in question.
:06:36
Even with the politics taken out,
it would still remain a vulgar farce.
:06:42
Why waste your spirit on such rubbish?
:06:45
Surely you can choose more
elevated themes.
:06:49
Elevated!
What does that mean, elevated?
:06:52
I am fed to the teeth with these...
:06:56
...elevated things. Old dead legends.
:06:59
Why must we go on forever
writing of gods and legends?
:07:03
Because they do.
:07:06
They go on forever.
:07:09
At least what they represent:
the eternal in us.
:07:13
Opera is here to ennoble us, Mozart.
:07:16
You and me,
just the same as His Majesty.
:07:23
"Bello, bello, bello. "
Come on now, be honest!
:07:27
You'd rather listen to your hairdresser
than Hercules, Horatius or Orpheus.
:07:33
People so lofty, they sound
as if they shit marble!
:07:38
What!
:07:40
Govern your tongue, Mozart!
How dare you!
:07:48
Forgive me, Majesty.
:07:52
I'm a vulgar man...
:07:54
...but I assure you, my music is not.