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Amadeus · 1984 — 第 16 / 25 章 · 4'07" · B2

Mozart Defends Figaro to the Emperor, Explained：go mad for

Court gossip reaches the Emperor: Mozart is setting the banned French play Figaro as an opera. Summoned, Mozart is told, "It is not your place to ask questions," and hears the Emperor's case against the play. Mozart answers that he has removed everything that could give offense, calls it a frolic, and promises the audience will go mad for it.

あらすじ

Word reaches the Emperor that Mozart is adapting Figaro, the French play he has banned, into an opera. The Emperor summons him and makes the case for censorship: the play stirs up hatred between classes and could provoke the people. Mozart insists he has cut anything that might give offense, calls the piece a frolic, and describes the finale that builds from a duet into a septet and octet.

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bannedstir up hatredgive offensego mad for

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このシーンの表現

go mad for

love something intensely

Mozart predicts the people will go mad for the new opera.

The crowd went mad for the song.

このシーンの他の表現

  • banned

    be officially forbidden

  • stir up hatred

    provoke hostility

  • give offense

    cause annoyance or insult

  • frolic

    a light, playful caper

  • sustain that

    keep it going

このシーンのメモ一覧

67 行のセリフに 16 件のメモ

表現 · B2be banned

be officially forbidden

The court notes that the French play has been banned by the emperor.

It has been banned by the emperor.
表現 · B2be aware that ...

do you know

Are you aware that I have declared the French play "Figaro"...
表現 · B1the French play

the play from France

Are you aware that I have declared the French play "Figaro"...
文法 · B2Are you aware that

noun clause: The that-clause is what he should be aware of.

Are you aware that I have declared the French play "Figaro"...
表現 · A2Is this true?

is it the case

Yet we hear you're making an opera from it. Is this true?
表現 · B2make something from something

adapt from

Yet we hear you're making an opera from it. Is this true?
表現 · A2a comedy

a funny play

Majesty,it is only a comedy.
表現 · C1stir up + emotion

provoke hostility

It stirs up hatred between classes.
発音stirs up

Stirs up blends across the words.

It stirs up hatred between classes.
表現 · B1take out something

remove

I've taken out everything that could give offense. I hate politics.
表現 · C1give offense

cause annoyance or insult

Mozart insists he has removed anything that could give offense.

I've taken out everything that could give offense. I hate politics.
発音taken out

Taken out runs together.

I've taken out everything that could give offense. I hate politics.
表現 · B2in these times

in this period

In these dangerous times I cannot afford to provoke our people...
表現 · C1be a frolic

a playful caper

Majesty,this is just a frolic. A piece about love.
文法 · B1will go mad for

future tense: The future tense predicts the audience's reaction.

It's entirely new. The people will go mad for it.
表現 · B1on and on

continuously

And so on,on and on.

「Mozart Defends Figaro to the Emperor」を読み解く

What's really going on

Figaro is banned, and that is precisely why it is worth talking about. The courtiers bring the news as gossip, knowing the Emperor will react; the Emperor treats the subject as a matter of order, not taste: "It stirs up hatred between classes." Mozart's defense is careful and revealing - he says he has removed everything that could give offense and insists, "I hate politics." He wants the work judged as music, while the court judges it as a weapon. The finale he describes, a duet swelling into a septet and octet, is his real argument: not politics but craft, voices piling up until the effect is impossible to ignore. He ends by betting on the audience - the people will go mad for it - which is exactly the kind of popularity the Emperor fears.

Theme

PowerThe Emperor decides what art is permitted, and Mozart must defend his opera inside a censorship he cannot appeal.
PhilosophyThe scene stages the clash between a censor's view of art as dangerous and a composer's view of it as music alone.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Stir up intensifies the emotion being provoked.
  • Give offense is a formal way to say insult.
  • A frolic shrinks a scandal into a romp.
  • The emperor's ban is politics dressed as morality.

発音のポイント

  • stirs up — Stirs up blends across the words.
  • taken out — Taken out runs together.
It has been banned by the emperor.

The key fact the courtiers drop: the source play is already forbidden, so Mozart's new opera is built on something the Emperor has ruled out.

I do not censor things lightly. When I do,I have good reason.

The Emperor's defense of his own restraint: he presents censorship as deliberate and justified rather than arbitrary.

I've taken out everything that could give offense. I hate politics.

Mozart's plea that the work has been cleaned of anything dangerous, and that he has no political intent at all.

Majesty,this is just a frolic. A piece about love.

His attempt to shrink the opera into harmless entertainment, reducing a political play to a love comedy.

It's entirely new. The people will go mad for it.

The pitch that finally answers nothing: Mozart sells novelty and popularity, the very thing the Emperor distrusts.

このシーンについての質問

Why has the Emperor banned Figaro?

He says it stirs up hatred between classes and caused bitterness in France. With his sister Antoinette frightened of her own people, he cannot risk a play about servants outwitting their masters.

Why is Mozart's opera such a problem?

He has adapted the banned play instead of avoiding it. To the court it looks like defiance, so the Emperor questions him directly about whether the rumor is true.

How does Mozart defend his opera?

He says he has removed everything that could give offense and calls it a frolic about love. He also argues that only opera could build the finale he describes, shifting the topic from politics to craft.

What is the finale Mozart describes?

An act-ending number that begins as a duet, then grows into a trio, quartet, quintet and beyond. He claims it runs twenty minutes, an effect he says only opera can achieve.

Why does the Emperor distrust a popular opera?

Because popularity means the people are listening. He already fears unrest, and a piece the whole city loves is harder to control than one that is merely banned.

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