ROTS: What music is played during...

[DarthJW 0]

...the theater scene? (Is it an opera? I guess so.)

Are we going to hear music from this opera?

Is this music on the CD?

And finally: Has Williams a cameo in this scene? Maybe as a conductor?

(Sorry, if this has been asked before!)

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

I don't know about the music of the opera itself, but there's a conversation there between Palpatine and Anakin that has underscore not on the album.

Williams has no cameo in that scene, but apparently, George Lucas does.

[Jacck 23]

Opera?

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

I'm sure he meant to say "Oprah". In ROTS Anakin goes on Oprah to sort out his problems, and she solves everything with a wad of cash right out of her bra.

[John Crichton 4]

It's been said that the male choir that's the first 1:30 or so of Palpatine's Teachings is the opera/ballet/whatever it is scene.

[Luke Skywalker 1,794]

But I saw a female calamarian singer drawing!

And those are not soprano voices...

[diskobolus 3]

It's been said that the male choir that's the first 1:30 or so of Palpatine's Teachings is the opera/ballet/whatever it is scene.

Correct.

[ChrisAfonso 186]

It's more of ballet than an opera I believe, it just takes place at the Coruscant opera house. And the moody, overtone-laden music fits with a slow water-type performance imho

[jamesluckard 80]

It's an opera/water ballet. The audience are watching giant floating water balls, which gradually contort themselves. It's like a really futuristic lava lamp. There is no actual living performer. There is a brief establishing shot of the thing, which you see in the trailer.

Palpatine is watching and Anakin joins him. Palpatine then tells Anakin a story, and that is the focus of the scene. The music of the water ballet plays underneath, and is, as I remember, the first half of Palpatine's Teachings, a low bass piece.

Here's a capture of the establishing shot, which is in the music video on the DVD.

[Luke Skywalker 1,794]

Now i understand