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A young Italian director encounters Nigerian musician and revolutionary Fela Kuti and for years chases the dream of making a film about him. He will never succeed but he will discovers something more important: a new idea of existence.
In 1979, while doing his military service, Giancarlo Soldi made his directorial debut with this short film. The Super 8 camera for the short was provided by Paolo Gioli, a multimedia artist, to whom he had been the sole assistant for two years. The film was seized by the Carabinieri under the pretext of showing weapons protected by military secrecy until 2024.
Teatro Regio’s 2013 revival of their highly successful 2006 production of Verdi’s Don Carlo celebrates the 40th anniversary of the theatre’s reopening in 1973. With traditional staging and lavish costume design, the production garnered high acclaim in the national and international press, with GB Opera commending the ‘sumptuous’ setting and French online music magazine ResMusica praising director Hugo de Ana’s decision to revive the show ‘in all its splendour’. Shown here in the four-act version, Don Carlo is the fascinating tale of father-son power struggles, adultery and love that borders on incest. The cast – under the powerful baton of Gianandrea Noseda – is headed by renowned Mexican tenor Ramón Vargas, and also features Ludovic Tézier, who has been hailed as ‘one of the best Verdian singers of our time’
Don Giovanni is a dramatic opera which tells the story of the legendary libertine and seducer of the same name. The opera explores love, morality, and the consequences of people's actions, and revolves around Don Giovanni's amorous escapades.
The Italian Association for Music Day presents the national event featuring a concert by Enrico Rava, the ambassador for Music Day 2023, which is taking place in the city of Alghero.
The documentary follows Mauro Pagani as he temporarily loses his memory and reconstructs his identity by weaving together memories, music, and encounters with friends and colleagues.
"Le storie cantante. Journey among the Cantastorie of Puglia" is a documentary that forms part of a broader research project developed by the authors, tracing the roots of Apulian musical tradition—both written and oral. The journey begins with the imagined arrival of Aeneas on the shores of Porto Badisco. The path is shaped by the testimonies of singers of Southern identity, from Uccio Aloisi to Tonino Zurlo, from Enzo Del Re to the choral ensemble Cantori di Carpino, concluding with Matteo Salvatore. Alongside these performer-authors—cantastorie who can be seen as forerunners of modern singer-songwriters (as in the case of Salvatore)—stand contributions from ethnomusicologist and musician Antonio Infantino, director, actor and writer Moni Ovadia, Neapolitan jazz musician Daniele Sepe, and director and actor Michele Placido.
Il Volo - Tutti per uno is an Italian television program of musical genre, a concert broadcast in prime time on Canale 5, created by the trio Il Volo. The second edition of Il Volo - Tutti per uno was broadcast on three evenings recorded from 9 to 13 May and broadcast from 14th to 28th of May 2024, and represents movie version of concerts held at the Verona Arena, marking the group's fifteenth anniversary. The evenings are characterized by the performance of the trio (including individual performances) and by the presence of guests who sometimes duet with the members of Il Volo. The second concert of the second edition of the concerts was hosted by Il Volo and Federica Panicucci. The guest for the second concert include: Federica Panicucci, Gianna Nannini, Giuliano Sangiorgi, Umberto Tozzi, Clara, Santi Francesi, Nina Solodovnikova, Enrico Nigiotti, Irama, Giuseppe Fiorello.
A mockumentary on the life of the Argentine singer, Tony Vilar, who came from Southern Italy to Argentina as a child and became one of the most successful South American singers of the 1960s.
The Youth Orchestra - Luigi Cherubini conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti performs the Symphony from “I vespri siciliani” by Giuseppe Verdi the “Symphony No. 4” in A major ‘Italiana’ op. 90 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the “Symphony No. 5” in C minor op. 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences and swindlers, speaking various dialects with Peppe Servillo as the shady fence, Angela Baraldi (the wife), Marco Alemanno and opera singer Borja Quiza Martinez (Captain Uccello) directed by Lucio Dalla. New translation and dramaturgical version by Giuseppe Di Leva of John Gay's play transported from the slums of 18th-century London to the Bologna of today.
Daryl Hall and John Oates kept a diverse crowd happy, updating their sound just enough to make hits from the '70s and '80s feel fresh in front of a sing-along crowd at New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 5, 2013. The "rock-and-soul" duo from Philadelphia added funk, rhythm-and-blues and gospel touches to chart-toppers, such as "Maneater," "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)," and "You Make My Dreams Come True."
Written 30 years earlier, Lou Reed’s hymn celebrates five flamboyant characters, each one a fragile icon from Andy Warhol’s Factory: Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dalessandro, Joe Campbell (aka Sugar Plum Fairy) and Jackie Curtis. Over five delicate tableaux Stéphane Sednaoui films these young people proudly displaying their sexuality and creativity, each one dreaming of becoming a star on the New York scene.
With four incredible performances at the legendary Montreux Music Festival to his name to date, legendary bluesman Otis Rush offers a memorable look at just how it all began in this release of the 1986 performance that started it all. In addition to memorable appearances by Eric Clapton and Luther Allison, Rush and company offer thirteen rousing blues hits including "Gambler's Blues", "Lonely Man", "Mean Old World", and "Right Place, Wrong Time". Tracklist: Tops [6:22] I Wonder Why (Will My Man Be Home Tonight) [7:15] Lonely Man [4:48] Gambler's Blues [9:40] Natural Ball [5:33] Right Place, Wrong Time [6:35] Mean Old World [5:52] You Don't Love Me [3:52] Crosscut Saw [8:25] Double Trouble [5:32] All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [7:53] Every Day I Have the Blues [10:00] If I Had Any Sense, I'd Go Back Home [6:51] INFO: DVD 9 ENG PAL Region 0 4:3 Screen Format DTS + Dolby Surround 5.1 + PCM Stereo
The 2004 Opus Arte DVD release of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni (recorded at Teatro alla Scala in 1987) is highly regarded by English-language critics as a definitive "traditional" production, notable for its legendary collaboration between conductor Riccardo Muti and director Giorgio Strehler.
A picaresque journey through the bold and experimental world of the 19'40" (anti)classical music series.
A modern dance tragedy on Sicilian soil, about a search for common ground. This independent film is a Gesamtkunstwerk, inspired by the architectural installation 'The Forbidden Garden of Europe'.
A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist’s wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home.
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.
Uto Ughi talks about W. A. Mozart, performing several of his pieces: Concerto in A major for violin and orchestra K 219, with I Filarmonici di Roma; Sonata in A minor for violin and piano K 304, with Marco Grisanti; Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E-flat major K 364, with Dino Asciolla (2003).
From Lucca, the Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, conducted by Maestro Beatrice Venezi, alternates symphonic pieces with the most famous operatic pages written by the composer.
The Guitar is the uncrowned king of rock ‘n’ roll instruments. Live, without any safety net, our Guitar Heroes make their instruments sing, laugh and cry, rage and rejoice as they dazzle you with their virtuoso finger-work, sheer power, and infectious emotion. Track listing: Roben Ford & The Blue Line: Prison Of Love, Duke Robillard: Gee I Wish, Walter Trout: Running Blues, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: Mojo Workin’, Rick Vito & The Lucky Devils: Long Black Car, Edgar Winter/Rick Derringer: I Play Guitar, Joe Louis Walker: Riding High, Popa Chubby: Stoop Down Baby, Curtis Mayfield: Pusherman, Bill Wyman’ Rhythm Kings Feat. Albert Lee: Jump Jive And Wail, Larry Carlton: I Gotta Right, Steve Lukather: Freedom, Albert Collins: Tired Man.
In Giuseppe Verdi's little-known early tragedy, a despairing father is torn between love for his family and his duty to a corrupt city. Jacopo Foscari, son of a 15th-century Doge of Venice, is convicted of murder and treason on a trumped-up charge. His wife Lucrezia is sure of his innocence. But the Doge, trapped by the machinations of the city, is forced to make a terrible decision.