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  • Evie at age 10 Singing Mozart with Mom

    Evie at age 10 Singing Mozart with Mom

    Recently discovered video footage shows that Evie Clair was trained in Italian opera. Even at 10 years old, she had no problem keeping up on this difficult duet with soaring agility and beauty. Before Evie Clair took the stage on America’s Got Talent in 2017, her classically-trained mom was the music teacher at her elementary school. They sing together live for the school talent show an operatic duet called Sull’aria from Motzart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

    “Sull’aria…che soave zeffiretto” (lit. “On the breeze…What a gentle little Zephyr) is a duettino, or a short duet, from act 3 of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, to a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

    In the film The Shawshank Redemption, prisoner Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) defies Warden Sam Norton (Bob Gunton) by playing the duettino over the prison’s loudspeakers. Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (Morgan Freeman) remarks in his voice-over narration: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. […] I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it.” The song’s appearance in the Shawshank Redemption soundtrack earned it a nomination as one of 400 songs in consideration for American Film Institute’s list of 100 top movie songs.

  • Arms

    Arms

    Evie Clair – Arms (Christina Perri)

    Evie performed this song in 2017 at age 13 for her first audition on America’s Got Talent. She got a standing ovation from all 4 judges and tears from both of her parents who were watching from back stage. She wanted to sing for her dad who was dying of cancer. He passed away before he could see her make it to the finals. He was her biggest fan and she sings again for him now at age 16 knowing he’s been watching over her for the past 3 difficult years without him. Evie struggles to perform this song because of the pain it brings back but she felt driven to sing it again now for all those who are suffering like her dad did.

     

    Full playlist of Evie’s journey on America’s Got Talent 

     

    Evie’s first video audition of Arms