Does anyone know the name of the powerful operatic song that is featured in the first scene? Are they singing in Russian? The scene with the teleporting blue mutant in the Whitehouse?

> Does anyone know the name of the powerful operatic song that is featured
> in the first scene? Are they singing in Russian? The scene with the
> teleporting blue mutant in the Whitehouse?

"Dies Irae" by Mozart. No, it's not Russian.

Tom

p.s. Both the movie and score are sooo much better than the first film.

Quoting Dies Irae, huh? That's never been done before. (Notice sarcasm)

Note: The one composer who made the best use of DI was Alan Menken.

> Quoting Dies Irae, huh? That's never been done before. (Notice sarcasm)

Well, there are lots of Dies Iraes. Mozart's hasn't been used that often. Berlioz's, on the other hand....

> Note: The one composer who made the best use of DI was Alan Menken.

Hunchback of Notre Dame?

Does anyone know where I can find Dies Irae and listen to it for free?

> Does anyone know where I can find Dies Irae and listen to it for free?
Try Kazaa Lite. Good program. Find anything.

> Well, there are lots of Dies Iraes. Mozart's hasn't been used that often.
> Berlioz's, on the other hand....

Remember though, Berlioz only quoted the traditional Gegorian chant melody in Symphonie Fantastique... he didn't write that melody (which has been used over and over in music and film)

He did however compose his own version of Dies Irae for his Requiem, although that version isn't as widely known...

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> "Dies Irae" by Mozart. No, it's not Russian.

> Tom

> p.s. Both the movie and score are sooo much better than the first film.

It's latin. Dies Irae means: Days of the anger (confutatis, maledictis, etc.....)

That would be a great classical work by Mozart. It's the first movement of his requiem.

> Does anyone know the name of the powerful operatic song that is featured
> in the first scene? Are they singing in Russian? The scene with the
> teleporting blue mutant in the Whitehouse?

> Does anyone know the name of the powerful operatic song that is featured
> in the first scene? Are they singing in Russian? The scene with the
> teleporting blue mutant in the Whitehouse?

It's called latin. The song goes like this. (I cant spell)
Dies Irae, Dies Illa
Solvet seclum, infa villa
Teste david cuum sebela;

etc. Dont insult Mozart like that

ps- I have sung this in a choir

> It's called latin. The song goes like this. (I cant spell)
Dies Irae,
> Dies Illa
Solvet seclum, infa villa
Teste david cuum sebela;

> etc. Dont insult Mozart like that

> ps- I have sung this in a choir

My two cents.

I don't see that there was any insult to Mozart in the previous comment. The music is big and loud and percussive and could smack of the Russian style to people who don't know the sounds of different languages or musical styles. And I have heard a lot of people call it "opera music" after hearing it in the movie, which it is also not in the least (see the subject heading of this thread). When I saw X2 I had not only been a Mozart lover for a long time, I had just sung the Requiem in a program for the University I attend. So that made it extra cool.

In responmse to other posts here, it is not the first - but the third - mnovement in the Requiem.

And this is a much differnet use than the comaprison made to its use by Menken. Here a whole work by Mozart is quoted - with a little added orchestration. In Menken's piece for Hunchback of Notre Dame the latin lyrics were used in the main music and the traditional gregorian requiem sequence was also quoted, as it has been since the begiunning of western music - very notably by Berlioz in the last movement of Symphony Fantastique. Not an origianl move, but a very clever one on Menken's part.

I thought Mozart's Requiem was used very well in X2. It was rather unexpected for one thing, and it fit the frenetic nature of the scene. It was intersting to hear how it was edited to stay with the action and keep the tension high.

Good stuff.

V.