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Rockapella (L-R) Scott Leonard, Steven Dorian, Calvin Jones, George Baldi III, and Jeff Thacher performing in Clearwater, Florida on December 20, 2013. Rockapella is an American a cappella musical group formed in 1986 in New York City. The group's name is a portmanteau of "rock" and "a cappella". Rockapella sings original vocal music and a ...
- From Apocalypse Now: Ride of The Valkyries
- From Sex and The City: Flower Duet
- From The King’s Speech: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
- From A Night at The Opera: Anvil Chorus
- From A Room with A View: “O Mio Babbino Caro”
- From The Fifth Element: Mad Scene from Lucia Di Lammermoor
- From The Witches of Eastwick: “Nessun Dorma”
- From Driving Miss Daisy: Song to The Moon
- From The Shawshank Redemption: Letter Duet
- From Pretty Woman: “Sempre Libera”
Francis Ford Coppola used the “Ride of the Valkyries,” famous music from the second opera of the Ring cycle, not for Wagner’s Norse goddesses of death but for American helicopters dealing out death from above in Vietnam in Apocalypse Now. It made for a brilliant, chilling moment—opera music used not just for emotional effect but as part of a film’s...
The Lakmé Flower Duet has been used in Sex in the City, Laura Croft Tomb Raider, even the Quentin Tarantino film True Romance. Its sensual blending of female voices powerfully underscored a sexual tryst between two lady vampires, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon, in the horror movie The Hunger. Sung by Joan Sutherland and Huguette Tourangeau, w...
Mozart’s whirligig overture to the beloved grandaddy of all opera comedies has been used by everybody from Schwarzenegger to Seinfeld to Mad Men. In the Colin Firth film The King’s Speech, speech pathologist Geoffrey Rush played this music to distract his patient, King George VI of England, from the ghastly sound of his own voice. Played by the Sea...
One of the Marx Brothers’ greatest comedies used the pretensions of opera-goers—and the complications of one of opera’s most Romantic plots, Il trovatore—to hilarious effect. The noisy effect of the anvil-banging just makes this familiar music that much sillier. Performed by the Seattle Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Yves Abel.
Movies love that big, lush sound of Romantic Italian opera music. Who could forget the spellbinding beauty of the aria “O mio babbino caro,” from Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, as heard when a repressed girl from Edwardian England learns about passion while on holiday in Tuscany in the beloved Merchant-Ivory romantic comedy A Room with a View? Sung by ...
Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten about action movies and sci-fi. Fans of the Bruce Willis film The Fifth Element may remember the alien Plavalaguna, who is hiding the Fifth Element—and who performs her own riff on the famous mad scene from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Sung by Aleksandra Kurzak, with the Seattle Opera Orchestra conducted by Bru...
Jack Nicholson, as the devil Daryl van Horne, creeped us out in The Witches of Eastwick to the sound of an unforgettable Puccini melody: “Nessun dorma” from Turandot, which became one of the most famous arias in all of opera when Luciano Pavarotti made it his theme song. Start at :50 for the most recognizable part of this piece. Sung by Antonello P...
Just as Pavarotti became associated with “Nessun dorma,” Renee Fleming has been a champion of the beautiful Song to the Moon from Dvorak’s Rusalka. Not many people in America knew how gorgeous that opera is until Ms. Fleming started singing it—beginning with her Seattle debut in 1990. This wistfully beautiful aria featured in the popular movie Driv...
In the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, convict Tim Robbins seizes control of his prison’s PA system and plays this wonderful music by Mozart for all his fellow prisoners, including Morgan Freeman, who has this to say about it: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. ... I'd like to think they were singing a...
To conclude our celebration of opera music in the movies, here’s one that gets at the heart of the glamor and passion that opera represents: Pretty Woman, starring Julia Roberts. This movie is a Cinderella-story, about a downtrodden gal who gets one shot at attending the prince’s ball—in this case, Richard Gere hires her to be his date for an opera...
1991 Original Soundtrack to the PBS TV show, featuring us on six original songs, plus other music stars. Out of print. Rockapella's first Japan-only album, featuring our versions of Japanese hits. Live album of all-star Zappa tribute show. Featured on "Heavenly Bank Account" and "Elvis Has Just Left the Building".
Sep 28, 2024 · Which television show does Rockapella sing the theme song to? Answer: "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" Rockapella wrote and performed the theme song to the old TV show "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego", also a popular computer and board game.
Rockapella. One of the world’s most lasting and imitated vocal groups around today. As one of the progenitors of the full-band sound of “contemporary” a cappella, Rockapella has shown every audience the raw power of pure vocal talent and originality. Since the early ’90’s when they first achieved national television fame on PBS’s ...
Rockapella: In the Beginning (1986) Back row, left to right: David Stix (bass), Elliott Kerman, Sean Altman ... 1997 Big Sean Music ...
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Rockapella is one of America’s best known a cappella groups, notably from the theme to the children’s geography quiz show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?. {{:: 'cloudflare_always_on ...
