Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Kiri Te Kanawa sing “Contessa, perdono,” an excerpt from the finale of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), accompanied by Karl Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic. The production, taped for television in 1976, was directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle:
An excerpt from Miloš Forman’s film version of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus, in which Salieri (played by F. Murray Abraham) talks about this scene:
(These are the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)