Tenor Dave Monaco chats with Graham Spicer about his journey to becoming one of today’s most sought-after Rossini and Mozart singers.
Gala Fracci at La Scala has reached its third edition – an annual gala dedicated to the great Italian ballerina Carla Fracci who died in 2021.
Rome Opera has cancelled the open-air season of opera, ballet and concerts at the Caracalla Baths.
Events affected are the 12 concerts by Claudio Baglioni in June called “12 Notes”, a concert by Andrea Bocelli, two evenings with Roberto Bolle and Friends, a concert with David Garrett and the entire season from Rome Opera and Rome Opera Ballet.
“If we continue to be unjust, God will take away our music.”
I want reassurances about what’s being done, not what will be done. I don’t want to hear about the future. There are people who don’t know how to get to the end of the day and feed their children. In my long life, I never even imagined such a thing, let alone experienced it. We’re living in a science fiction film.
In Ravenna [where he lives] the shutters are closed as though the virus could enter through the windows. There is a death-like silence, cemeterial. I’ve always spent Easter in Molfetta where, as a child, I saw the Good Friday processions. It’s very much a Southern tradition, and is accompanied by the band, which was my first music lesson: for centuries they have always continued, even in wartime.
Roberto Bolle‘s television specials Danza con me (Dance with Me) which over the last couple of years have welcomed in the New Year with their screenings on 1 January on Italy‘s main TV channel, RAI1, mix classical dancers – Anna Tsygankova, Silvia Azzoni, and Virna Toppi this year – with pop stars, actors, comics, such…
Renata Scotto has never been one to hold her tongue and at 81 she doesn’t intend to start. In a recent interview for Italy‘s Il Corriere della Sera, she was asked about Andrea Bocelli: He’s good when he’s singing pop music and he’s achieved a popularity that’s perfect for the masses. He shouldn’t, however, grapple…
The Rome Opera, which is emerging from a period of great economic difficulty, has been offered a gulp of oxygen by businessman Francis Yeoh, who has given the theatre a million euros. Yeoh runs YTL, a Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate which is an international utilities company, operating principally in England and Asia, with hotel chains, energy companies and building…
Why are La Scala‘s recitals like buses? No, it’s not a joke, but after four-months of opera and ballet, there have been two in a week. Once there used to be a recital every month, now recitals at La Scala have become gap fillers, and filling the gaps this week were Diana Damrau and René Pape. Damrau…
You may have already read about the refusal of some La Scala workers to perform Turandot on 1 May being that it is the International Workers’ Day. However, it is also the opening day of the Milan Expo, and I doubt that the hotels, restaurants, taxis and other services will be refusing to work. The situation was resolved…
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 7 years old. Why did you start dancing? I was part of the free lunch program at school and my sister and I got a flyer about a ballet school audition called Dance: The Next Generation. It was aimed at underprivileged children to give us a…
Andrea Bocelli brings Celebrity Fight Night to Italy. Bocelli has been involved with Muhammad Ali’s charity for years, but this will be the first time that the event has been seen outside America. For $50,000 a head each ‘guest’ will be flown from the States to Pisa for a six-day break in Tuscany, lunch with the Marques De…
In 2010 Andrea Bocelli was given a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, but now he’s been given a real star. Galileo Galileo’s Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti (“History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots and Their Properties,” or “Letters on Sunspots”), appeared in 1613. A group of amateur astronomers are…
San Pellegrino teamed up with the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation to create special bottles of Big Lucy mineral water. Andrea Bocelli, together with brother Alberto, produce a range of wines from the family home in Lajatico, near Pisa. Now, demonstrating that this isn’t just a tenor tendency, Aldeburgh Music‘s Chief Executive, Jonathan Reekie, has commissioned a Benjamin Britten Centenary Ale….
Around Andrea Bocelli‘s family home in Lajatico, in the province of Pisa, Andrea and his brother Alberto, who is more directly involved, are pursuing work to improve the wines and the family tradition. A work done, as Andrea says, in honour of the memory of their father, Alessandro, who in his time passionately cultivated the vines planted…
In 1978, with Carla Fracci at the height of her fame, a book was produced with a collection of photographs by Dino Jarach. Fracci in the piazza, Fracci on stage, Fracci in the studio, Fracci on the beach… that sort of thing. In these photos she is in fact over forty though, like now, she…
Mr. Bocelli’s fans seemed thrilled, rain or no rain. There remains a considerable divide between the passions of the audience he has reached (his recordings have sold more than 65 million, according to his Web site) and the assessment of most music critics. There is genuine warmth and sweetness in his sound. When he nails…
Salvatore Licitra‘s coffin has travelled from the south of Italy to Vedano Al Lambro, near Monza, in the north, where his family live. His funeral will be held at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Before returning home Licitra’s younger brother, Fabio, talked to journalists, My brother wasn’t calm person. He was a person who took things…
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