What do you recognise?
The power of opera to convey extremes of emotion is immense - so music from opera is used on a regular basis in films and advertisements. Everyone knows more opera than they think they do - what do you recognise from the list below?
CARMEN - Film: Entrapment, Meet the Parents, Babe (Toreador Song)
Streetfighter, Trainspotting, Serendipity & Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (Habanera).
BARBER OF SEVILLE Clockwork Orange (overture), Babe, Pig in the City/ Mrs Doubtfire/ Copy Cat (Largo al Factotum) , Jumanji (Una voce poco fa)
LA BOHEME: Moonstruck and Fatal Attraction, (both films also use music from Madame Butterfly), Mad City, Boxing Helena (Quando me n’vo), Heavenly Creatures, Deep Impact (Sono andati? Oh Mimi, tu piu non torni Si, mi chiamano Mimi ) Deep Impact
LA TRAVIATA Pretty Woman (Dammi tu forza, o cielo) Godfather, Only You, Rat Race 2001 (Brindisi)
MADAM BUTTERFLY Fatal Attraction, Household Saints (Un bel di vedremo) - Heavenly Creatures, Natural Born Killers (Humming Chorus)
RIGOLETTO Sunday (La donna e mobile ), Wall Street (Questa a quella)
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO The Shawshank Redemption (Sull’ aria)
THE MAGIC FLUTE Amadeus/ The Last Action Hero/ Runaway Bride/ Trading Places (Overture), Face/off (Ach, ich fuhls) , The General’s Daughter (In diesen heil’gen)
Shawshank Redemption (Sull’ Aria), The Living Daylights (Voi signor, che giusto siete)
TOSCA Copy Cat/ Faithful/ Household Saints (Vissi d’arte), Heavenly Creatures (E Lucevan le Stelle) 40 Days and 40 Nights (Recondita Armonia)
TURANDOT Bend it like Beckham, Boxing Helena, Castaway, The Guilty, The Killing Fields (Nessun Dorma)
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