It boasts one of the most famous scores in movie history and Audrey Hepburn at her most charming.
Now Breakfast at Tiffany’s is to be shown with Henry Mancini’s Oscar-winning music performed by a live orchestra, in a world premiere at the Royal Albert Hall this weekend.
Much of the score for the 1961 movie was never written down and it has been restored after months of research by conductor Justin Freer.
The idea so touched Mancini’s widow Ginny that she is coming from America with her family, including daughter Monica who will perform the song Moon River. It is sung in the film by Hepburn as socialite Holly Golightly.
Mrs Mancini, 90, said: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s is part of the fabric of my life. I happen to be in New York City at the moment and my apartment is right off Fifth Avenue near Tiffany’s.
“I walk past it all the time and that first frame of the film where the harmonica starts to play and it’s 5.30am and Holly Golightly is just getting home from being out goes through my head.”
Moon River would always be close to the Mancini family, she said. “It’s a lovely, lovely melody. Certainly it was one of my husband’s favourites.”
She learned of the performance from Freer, who has known her since he was a student. “I thought immediately, I need to be there, and the more I thought about it I thought I had to have my family with me to enjoy it as well,” she said. “We’re arriving at the end of the week en masse — eight Mancinis.”
Mrs Mancini said her children were still friends with Hepburn’s children, adding: “She was a very special human being, just wonderful.”
Three performances of Breakfast at Tiffany’s Live take place on Friday and Saturday.
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