Antonello Vendittti

Sotto il segno dei pesci is a 1978 music album by Antonello Venditti. The title track of the album, "Sotto il segno dei pesci", peaked at number-one on the Italian charts.

Sotto il segno dei pesci is a 1978 music album by Antonello Venditti. The title track of the album, "Sotto il segno dei pesci", peaked at number-one on the Italian charts.

Filmed live in 2007 at the prestigious Rossini Opera Festival in the composer’s birthplace, Pesaro, Il Turco in Italia is a madcap ensemble opera with an inspired score that boasts music of both comic genius and extraordinary beauty. Set in Naples, it spins a crazy tale around a poet who uses the romantic entanglements of the inhabitants with a Turkish prince as inspiration for the plot of his next play. Ultimately, life imitates art as all ends happily, but not before a planned abduction leads to a chaotic situation of mistaken identity.

Oberto was the first of Verdi’s operas to be staged and was heard for the first time at La Scala, Milan, in November 1839. As a young and unknown composer, Verdi was subject to the rules then governing the opera industry in Italy. Even so, there are already many scenes in this early work that reveal unmistakable signs of the composer’s individual style.

The Kammerakademie Potsdam and its Chief Conductor Antonello Manacorda continue their new Beethoven symphony cycle with Sony Classical, presenting Symphonies No. 5 and 6. The album will be released on October 6th 2023.