Viva il Lupo

Francesco De Gregori has been, together De Andre, Lucio Dalla and Venditti, one of most important Italian song-writers. Inspired by Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, De Gregori starts to sing the guitar in the last years of 60's.

As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century King Edgar. Huntsmen’s and Knights’ choruses and troubadour-like songs give great vivacity to a score that is both lyrical and dramatic. Mayr’s compound of Viennese Classicism and Italianate melodic beauty, allied to his ambitious writing and a skilful libretto, produced an important and influential opera couched in his own unmistakable idiom.