Movies: Vincenzo Taormina

A Musical fairy tale in three acts (1922)/Revised 1934. Performed by Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. Originally commissioned by the renowned puppeteer Vittorio Podrecca, The Sleeping Beauty has been revised for live performance...

Ludovico is an arrogant boy who grew up in the comforts and vices among money, parties, and excesses: he has known every wealth except that of the soul. Filippo is a young man who faces all suffering, poverty, and abuse in order to grow up. the forme...

The story is by the dramatist Carlo Gozzi and dates from 1762, telling of the Chinese princess Turandot, who sets her suitors three riddles in order to marry her. Only the suitor who solves the riddle may ask for her hand in marriage, otherwise death...

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perf...