De Havilland's last scene singing opera
What is the aria sung by De Havilland in her scene saying farewell to Fredrick March?
shareIt's a fictitious aria and not a real opera but something "made up" for the film.
"Somewhere along the line, the world has lost all of its standards and all of its taste."
To be more precise, it's an aria composed specifically for the film by the Italian-born Aldo Franchetti (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289946/).
"I do write my music for people, not for computers." - Dr. Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995)
Aldo Franchetti was evidently an actor. Did you mean Alberto Franchetti, who was an Italian opera composer more or less in the style of Puccini?
But why would the studio have asked someone else to write that last scene, when they had an opera composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, writing the rest of the music for the picture? Unless there is proof to the contrary, I suspect that fake Italian opera scene was written by Korngold, who was particularly good at imitating the styles of other composers.
I wonder who they got to sing for de Havilland?