I’m looking for the name of a piece from the movie Amadeus.
It is from an opera. (Magic Flute? Don Giovanni?)
In the film Salieri describes as the voice of God forgiving all sins.
It is not an aria (solo) but IIRC mostly in high voices. It is also featured later on in the film when Salieri visits a music hall and he hears Mozart’s music and realizes that it is embraced by the masses. I particularly recall a shot of an urchin girl as she sings the piece.
It has a very slow pace. It is very melodic/smooth.
if this makes any sense
4 and (1 2) (3 4) 1 and (2 3) rest. (repeat)
two eights, a half note, another half note two eights a half and a rest.
It is not on the soundtrack listing on IMDB or on the soundtrack to the play on iTunes.
It’s from “Le Nozze di Figaro.” The count begs for forgiveness from his wife, the countess, for being a philanderer. She forgives him. The leads and chorus join in and finish the opera on a note of loving hope/forgiveness/joy.
It’s in there quite a lot! Remember the terrific scene where the “Italians” (the two advisors and Salieri) have warned Emperor Joseph that Figaro is an insidious political work, and Mozart tries to convince him that it’s not? He says that the opera starts with a man on his knees – not because he’s oppressed, but because he’s on the floor measuring to see whether it’ll be big enough for his marriage bed.
And it’s the ballet from Figaro that nearly gets the opera cancelled, because the emperor had forbidden dancing in ‘his’ operas.