QOTD # 49

This video is of a song which is sung by Hillevi Martinpelto and Alison Hagley, composed by Mozart, and adopted from the third act of Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro.

This song was played in a an iconic scene in a 90’s movie, and though nobody knew what these ladies were actually singing, the scene has become one of the most beautiful scenes in cinematic history. ID the movie and the scene I’m talking about. Here’s the song :

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    • And here’s Red’s amazing narration :

      I have no idea to this day what those
      two Italian ladies were singing about.

      Truth is, I don’t want to know.

      Some things are best left unsaid.

      I like to think it was something
      so beautiful…

      …it can’t be expressed in words…

      …and makes your heart ache
      because of it.

      I tell you, those voices soared…

      …higher and farther than anybody
      in a gray place dares to dream.

      It was like a beautiful bird
      flapped into our drab cage…

      …and made those walls dissolve away.

      And for the briefest of moments…

      …every last man at Shawshank
      felt free.

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