Music

Culture
by Carol King | Fri, 04/05/2013 - 06:31
American public radio network NPR reports that an Italian music teacher, Francesco Lotoro, has found and resurrected music composed by prisoners at camps…
Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 03/28/2013 - 11:03
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging an exhibition of rare Italian and Cremonese stringed instruments.The show is of the Sau-Wing Lam collection of…
Lifestyle
by Carol King | Sat, 03/02/2013 - 10:09
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will appear in the American TV series ‘Great Performances’ in March. PBS will air ‘Andrea Bocelli: Love in Portofino’ as part of…
Culture
by Carol King | Wed, 02/20/2013 - 06:20
Iconic Italian film composer Ennio Morricone composed a song for American director Quentin Tarantino’s homage to spaghetti westerns, ‘Django Unchained’.…
Culture
by Carol King | Tue, 02/19/2013 - 05:28
Composer Dario Marianelli has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for ‘Anna Karenina’ making him the sole Italian Oscar candidate this…
by ITALY | Sat, 02/16/2013 - 12:39
The 63rd Sanremo festival continues this evening, with the Teatro Ariston hosting the final evening of the annual extravaganza. Main guest of the show, Andrea…
Culture
by ITALY | Fri, 02/15/2013 - 05:47
The festival della canzone Italiana commonly known as the Sanremo Music Festival is one of the oldest singing competitions in Europe. The song contest began in…
Culture
by Carol King | Thu, 02/14/2013 - 07:56
Your guide to what’s on in Italy this spring from art shows and sports tournaments to festivals and concerts. ART The Ethnological Museum: History, Mystery And…
Culture
by ITALY | Tue, 02/12/2013 - 06:25
Fabio Fazio and Italian comedian Luciana Littizzetto will present the 63d edition of the Sanremo Song Festival that begins tonight and goes on until February…
Culture
by Carol King | Mon, 02/11/2013 - 04:47
BBC’s Radio 3 will broadcast all of Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi’s operas this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth.Radio 3’s ‘Verdi 200’…