The Mask of Zorro (soundtrack): History and Key Facts

The Mask of Zorro: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album to Martin Campbell's 1998 film The Mask of Zorro. The soundtrack was composed and conducted by James Horner, who was hired to work on the film score in September 1997. The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical Records and Epic Soundtrax. The orchestral score was heavily influenced by the music of the Iberian peninsula and features several themes, which are written in the harmonic minor scale.

The soundtrack was commercially successful and propelled by the rising profile of Marc Anthony and Australian singer Tina Arena. Their duet, "I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You", plays in the closing credits of the film and was released as a single in Europe. The song went #3 on the French singles and #4 on the Dutch singles charts, and it won Outstanding Performance of a Song for a Feature Film at the 1999 ALMA Awards. An expanded limited edition of the soundtrack was released in 2023.

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