The Italian Cinema Orchestra
choir staged an unexpected concert in the departures hall at
Fiumicino airport on Thursday in a preview of the Gladiator Live
charity event at the Colosseum next month.
The 100-member choir performed two songs from the soundtrack
of the 2000 Oscar-winning Hollywood blockbuster starring Russel
Crowe - Barbarian Horde" and "Now we are Free" - composed by
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard.
The concert was accompanied by sequences from the film shown
on big screens in the departures hall, to the delight of
passengers.
The initiative was a partnership of airport manager AdR and
the Italian Cinema Orchestra, which last year performed music
from the second film in the Harry Potter series.
On June 6 200 choristers and musicians will perform a live
rendition of the Gladiator soundtrack to accompany a screening
at the Colosseum.
The event, a fundraiser for an anti-polio campaign and to
install a lift for disabled people at the Flavian amphitheatre,
will be repeated at Circo Massimo on June 8 and 9.
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