Classical Music

Here are two sites with lots of them.

Classical Music In Popular Songs: You Know More Classical Music Than You Think
https://www.vpr.org/programs/2016-02-01/classical-music-in-popular-songs-you-know-more-classical-music-than-you-think

17 pop songs you didn’t know were directly inspired by classical music
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/pop-songs-sample-based-on-classical-music/


Oh my! Why didn't I think of that one?

So, here's a treat, and one obscure one.
Treat: Bizet's music exactly, in a movie set in the 20th century (by Otto Preminger) and starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones". Love the names. Escamillo the bull fighter is Husky Miller, the prize figher. So are the others.

Wikipedia says:

The majority of the actors performing the songs in the film Carmen Jones were dubbed. Even singer Harry Belafonte was dubbed (by LeVern Hutcherson), and Dorothy Dandridge was dubbed by Marilyn Horne (long before Horne became a well-known opera singer).

And this one is obscure.
The aria "Quello Che Tacete" in Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West (I love it, especially "Whiskey per tutti!" )
has to be the predecessor to "Music of the Night". Check it out. I couldn't find a performance off the top.


ENJOY!!