Indagini su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto Ennio Morricone

December 2nd is the birthday of Maria Callas, meaning that we are now exactly one year before her centenary.

On 7th February 1857, after a delay of one year due to problems of copyright on a possible production of King Lear, Verdi accepted and signed a new agreement with the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples for an opera to be staged in January or February 1858. Not long after he had put behind the experiences of Simon Boccanegra (June 1857) and Aroldo (August), Verdi, then, had to face the issue of a new subject for Naples, which would no longer be King Lear, discarded for various reasons, and not even El tesorero del Rey by António García Gutiérrez or Ruy Blas by Hugo, to which he had given more serious thought, but Gustave III by Eugène Scribe, a play written in 1833 for Daniel Auber in which the king of Sweden is assassinated, in 1792, by a group of noblemen led by Jacob Ankarström.

Even when music is notated relatively precisely, as in music, a performer must make many decisions because the notation does not specify all elements of the music. The process of deciding how to perform music that has been previously composed and notated is called "interpretation". Interpretations of the same piece of music by different performers can be very different in terms of the tempos chosen, the style of playing or singing, or the phrasing of the melodies. Composers and songwriters who perform their own music interpret their songs in the same way as those who perform the music of others. The standard choices and techniques available at a particular time and place are referred to as performance practice, while interpretation generally refers to the individual choices of a performer.

Nicola Porpora was a composer who helped to turn Italian opera into the most successful and spectacular genre in Europe.

"Penso che siate un grande trio": così Antonio Meneses, violoncellista del celebre 'Beaux Arts Trio', definiva il Trio Modigliani, formato nel 2005 da Mauro Loguercio e dai due fratelli Angelo e Francesco Pepicelli.

HAUSER pays tribute to maestro Ennio Morricone. Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser have created three high-energy albums for Sony Music Masterworks.

Teatro Massimo di Palermo auditions for children and teenagers to join the Youth Orchestras, the choir of white voices and the choir

Giovanni Bononcini composed the four-part oratorio La conversione di Maddalena for the Habsburg emperor Leopold I in 1701. The musician from Modena, at the time at the apex of his European fame, had at his disposal the best forces of the Imperial Chapel: four singers (two sopranos, a contralto and a bass) of top rate and an instrumental ensemble, limited to strings but adequately consistent to articulate a concert dialectic with tutti-concertino, including soloist pages for the violin, the cello and the viola da gamba.

The comic-heroic romp Matilde di Shabran was Rossini’s last commission for the theatres of Rome, the city where he’d had great successes such as Il barbiere di Siviglia.