# Trying to find music featured in a Simpsons episode **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904 "2004-01-17T09:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Motog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Motog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motog)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/1 "2004-01-17T09:00:37Z")
I’m trying to identify an opera solo that played in a Simpsons episode. The episode is the one where the town sets up its own film festival. The festival was won by Barney Gumble with a story that depicts his alcoholism and decline. In the background towards the end of Barney’s short film (where he is lying on the bed with a breeze blowing through the window), there is an opera solo in the background. Can anyone identify the piece of music? ---
**Author:** ![greyseal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@greyseal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greyseal)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/2 "2004-01-17T09:21:07Z")
According to [Simpsons archive](http://www.snpp.com/guides/city.profile.html) > [@](#): > > Barney’s movie is in black and white. It opens with a shot of a Duff > beer bottle on a windowsill. Gauzy white curtains billow around it as > the love theme from “M. Butterfly” plays. I’m not sure if this is the piece playing at the end. Hope it helps! ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/3 "2004-01-17T10:15:49Z")
Moved to CS. - **xash** General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Motog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Motog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motog)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/4 "2004-01-17T12:19:21Z")
**greyseal** thank you, that sounds right. Oddly enough I have a CD by my side entitled “The Best of Puccini” that includes absolutely nothing from Madame Butterfly even though that is one of Puccini’s most famous operas. **xash** sorry, clearly I put this in the wrong forum ---
**Author:** ![Motog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Motog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motog)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/5 "2004-01-17T12:20:38Z")
btw if anyone knows precisely which part of Madame Butterfly, I would be grateful ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/6 "2004-01-17T12:27:57Z")
I think it may be _One Fine Day (Un bel di)_, from the second act. ---
**Author:** ![Motog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85e7bf/32.png) [@Motog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motog)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-music-featured-in-a-simpsons-episode/224904/7 "2004-01-19T00:02:14Z")
> [@Crusoe](#): > > I think it may be _One Fine Day (Un bel di)_, from the second act. Thanks. When I saw your post I went out and found the appropriate Cd and that is, indeed, what I was looking for.