Photographer Barbara Luisi’s latest exhibition AKT – Ageless Beauty in Tokyo celebrates the naked bodies of the over-80s, which makes for a striking companion piece to her black and white collection of 1000-year-old olive trees.Olive trees which have lived for more than 1000 years fully bear fruit. Likewise, there are many people who have youthful inside even in their … [Read more...] about Photographer Barbara Luisi’s nude photos of the elderly, including the Japanese master Eikoh Hosoe
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Interview with Fabio Luisi, the Florence Opera’s new Musical Director
Fabio Luisi is the new music director of Florence’s Opera di Firenze and its spring festival, known as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Zubin Mehta, who has been chief conductor of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino since 1985, will stay on as principal conductor emeritus.Luisi is currently the principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and general music … [Read more...] about Interview with Fabio Luisi, the Florence Opera’s new Musical Director
Photographer Barbara Luisi brings the mystique of Puglia’s olive trees to New York
Twelve black and white photos of trees might not grab your attention immediately, though if I add that they are millennium-old olive trees from Puglia, presented as large-format prints exhibited in the ISAIA Showroom in Madison Avenue as seen through the perceptive and sensual lens of Barbara Luisi, you’ll certainly want to take a look.Art critic Manuela De Leonardis writes … [Read more...] about Photographer Barbara Luisi brings the mystique of Puglia’s olive trees to New York
Barbara Luisi: Photographing the Night and the Nude
Barbara Luisi was the first photographer to be featured on gramilano, and as the years pass we love her work more and more. Other photographers to be found here work as dance photographers being that dance, opera and classical music are the main focus of this blog. Yet Luisi doesn't take photographs of dancers, and only the occasional musician - her husband, conductor Fabio … [Read more...] about Barbara Luisi: Photographing the Night and the Nude
Fabio Luisi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition
Q&AWhen did you start playing an instrument? When I was three and a half years old.Why did you start playing? My parents sent me to piano lessons, for me it was more like a game.Which musicians inspired you most when you were young? My teacher, Lili Chiesa, who was violinist in the orchestra in Genoa and pianist.Which musicians (instrumentalists or singers) do you … [Read more...] about Fabio Luisi answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Conductors’ Edition