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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The movie is The Shawshank Redemption.
Andy plays it over the PA system when he receives donation for library which includes this.
Shawshank Redemption.
Andy Dufresne puts the Gramophone on the PA.
Shawshank Redemption
From The Shawshank redemption, when Andy hijacks the PA system and then proceeds to play this song.
Shawshank Redemption. The scene where Tim Robbins plays the record on the PA system. Ah, memories 🙂
The Shawshank Redemption
Movie- Amadeus
Shawshank Redemption; Andy (Tim Robbins) plays this song over the speakers from warden’s office.
This is the song Andy Dufresne plays on the announcement system after locking himself in the warden’s office.
The movie, The Shawshank Redemption.
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.