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Today, from the Bond on Vinyl archives, we’re leaving the Roger Moore era and listening to music from The Living Daylights!
I’ve previously posted about how great it is to hear incidental classical music in The Living Daylights from 1987. The main Bond girl, Kara Milovy, is a professional cellist, so it is certainly convenient to the story.
Besides Mozart’s 40th Symphony in G minor being performed by the Slovakian orchestra at the Conservatoire in Bratislava when Koskov first flees early in the film, a bit of Mozart is featured later on in Vienna. Here, Kara is set to perform the finale to Act II of Mozart’s opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro).
Premiering in 1786, the play caused a buzz as it was written at a time of revolution. The opera’s theme of servants rising up and outwitting their masters really enraged the current aristocracy, causing it to be banned in many cities, including Vienna, where Mozart was based.
You’ve likely heard the piece at an actual wedding, or I feel like I’ve heard it in a more recent car commercial.
I now have a handful of vinyl albums with music of Mozart with other artists, but this one is 100% WAM, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
87. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mozart At The Movies
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