A piece of opera pastiche featuring Danielle De Niese and Bruno Lazzaretti and set to a text by Dante. Anthony Hopkins, who plays Lecter, is featured speaking excerpts from his literary lectures as a library curator and reciting a letter to the FBI agent filled with his character’s black humor. With its emphasis on the film’s classical pretensions, the soundtrack gives only a mild sense of the violent aspects of the movie, though Zimmer’s “For a Small Stipend,” with its mixture of synthesized and orchestral music with sound effects, carries some of that tone. Still, listening to the album is a far less disturbing experience than watching the film.