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Curiously, Rossini has composed two roles for a castrato: to Alceo in the cantata Il vero omaggio, and that of Arsaces in Aureliano in Palmira, both for Giambattista Velluti, the last castrato internationally renowned opera . Against the Argentine tenor Franco Fagioli has deliberately given up these roles to this album Rossini, preferring to focus on transvestites roles that address sexual ambiguity from another angle. In operas "serious" by Rossini, rarely given today, there are many male characters whose roles were written for singers. Already, in the Baroque era, the role of the "primo uomo" could be entrusted to a woman if we did not have the proper castrato.

Too often assimilated by journalists or distracted music lovers to the great genius of the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo Vinci is a Neapolitan Baroque composer of the eighteenth century whose reputation comes mainly from his thirty-seven operas composed for the great castrates of his time and played in the Royal Chapel of Naples where he was the successor of Alessandro Scarlatti.

Before the first sound from the loudspeaker, a certain skepticism: Do the countertenors now also want to kill the mezzo-sopranos in the Belcanto compartment? Will all trouser roles soon be filled with real, albeit falsetting guys? The future will tell us whether this will happen.

The Buddy De Franco-Tommy Gumina Quartet made a sensational debut at Hollywood’s “Pick-a-Rib” night club in March 1960, playing assertive, driving modern jazz. In this new setting, Buddy’s fleet, fluid clarinet gained an exciting, fresh context with jazz accordion virtuoso Tommy Gumina.

Franco Califano (14 September 1938 – 30 March 2013) was an Italian lyricist, composer, singer-songwriter, author and actor. During his career Califano has sold about 20 million records. Born in an airplane above Tripoli, Libya, Califano lived most of his life in Rome (in whose dialect he usually sang) and Milan. In the 1960s he began his career in music as a lyricist and a record producer; among his first successes as author "La musica è finita", "E la chiamano estate", "Una ragione di più". Mia Martini (born Domenica Bertè; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian singer. he was born Domenica Bertè in 1947 in Bagnara Calabra (province of Reggio Calabria, in southern Italy, the second among four daughters. The youngest of them, Loredana Berté, was born on the same day and month as Martini, and also became famous as a singer. Her father, Giuseppe Bertè Radames, was a teacher of Latin and Greek. Her mother, Maria Salvina Dato (died 2003), was an elementary school teacher. "Mimi" as Domenica was known, spent her childhood in Macerata, Porto Recanati. In 1962, she convinced her mother to take her Milan for an audition.

This production is new staging of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Il Tabarro is one of the three one-act operas that compose Giacomo Puccinis Il Trittico.

Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and 1970s.

A sumptuous album of French and Belgian music for violin and piano, performed with unique intimacy and poetry by long-term partners Franco Mezzena and Elena Ballario.

Joe Patti's Experimental Group is Franco Battiato's twenty-ninth studio album, in collaboration with Pinaxa, released in Italy in 2014 by Universal Records. Battiato aims to return to purely electronic and experimental sounds, in collaboration with Pino Pischetola, aka Pinaxa, who has been working with him since 2012, the year the album Apriti sesamo was released.