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December

Therapeutic art: A British Health initiative

An initiative, unveiled this week by British Health Secretary Matt Hancock, may soon enable the country’s doctors to prescribe therapeutic art- or hobby-based treatments for a wide range of mental health conditions. Therapeutic art- or hobby-based treatments for dementia, psychosis and mental health issues The medical benefits of engaging with the arts are well-recorded. According to the Telegraph “Dementia patients should be prescribed personal playlists to trigger happy memories   Read more at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-doctors-may-soon-prescribe-art-music-dance-singing-lessons-180970750

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February

Verdi’s Falstaff | Triumph with a laughter

Verdi’s last opera Falstaff relates to Verdi’s late years when after the enormous success of Otello no one expected him to create yet another opera. A pleasant routine Verdi and Giuseppina had a pleasant life routine at that stage. They used to spend winters in Genoa; the beginning of spring in Milan attending music events; the end of spring and most part of summer in Sant’Agata, where the composer attended business such as the collection of rent payments, purchase of seeds, repairs, new buildings works. Yet his friend, librettist and composer Arrigo Boito noticed how much Verdi missed composing and for that reason started to insist in working together on something new, an opera that could end his career in an even better way than Otello, a “triumph with a laughter”. Triumph with a laughter The idea came out during a conversation between Boito and Verdi. By May 1889 Boito had already sketched the libretto from Shakespeare’s Henry IV (1597) and The Merry Wives of Windsor (1602). Verdi, who had considered a comic subject before, at that stage was worried for not being able to complete it:  “What would happen if I won’t overcome my weakness…If I won’t be able to finish […]

20
January

Remembering Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado was a relentless disseminator of beauty, engaged in a constant search for “the truth” in music, a supporter of culture democracy, of beauty accessible to everyone.

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March

Where Vincenzo Bellini meets the Coldplay | Palazzo Biscari in Sicily

If a great composer such as Vincenzo Bellini was born in Sicily it’s also thanks to another great personality of his time, the Prince of Biscari Ignatiu Paternò Castello.

The Servant turned Mistress | La Serva Padrona
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The Servant turned Mistress | La Serva Padrona

Comic opera History of Italian Opera Operas
La Serva Padrona or The Servant turned Mistress La Serva Padrona is considered by many the…
Sara Filippini 16th February 2016
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Pesaro | Gioachino Rossini
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Pesaro | Gioachino Rossini

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Places off the beaten track The golden age
Gioachino Rossini: the “swan” Gioachino Rossini, lovingly nicknamed by the Pesaresi their Swan, was born three…
Sara Filippini 31st December 2015
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Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa
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Il Matrimonio Segreto by Domenico Cimarosa

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera Operas The golden age
Genesis of the libretto by Giovanni Bertati Domenico Cimarosa‘s most successful opera, The Secret Marriage, was…
Sara Filippini 27th December 2015
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Domenico Cimarosa | The triumph of the Neapolitan school
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Domenico Cimarosa | The triumph of the Neapolitan school

Comic opera Composers and librettists History of Italian Opera The golden age
The Neapolitan school and the trumph of the classical style Domenico Cimarosa’s successes are a prove…
Sara Filippini 12th December 2015
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The Comic Opera revolution | From Opera Seria to modern opera
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The Comic Opera revolution | From Opera Seria to modern opera

Comic opera History of Italian Opera The beginning - Baroque What is opera
Intermezzi and Commedeja pee Mmuseca At the beginning of the eighteenth century starts to develop a…
Sara Filippini 15th October 2015
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