La donna mia bruno ferrara biography

La Morte d’Orfeo

Instead of the little tears that were shed at the end of Arianna’s lament in 1608, here, as semi-deo ex machina, Vanità/Orfeo takes over and revenges the lieto fine (happy end) that was imposed on the opera in the edition of 1609. The first performed version of 1607 ended with Striggio’s verses of liquidation by Bacchanti (furies), shaped as Bacchanale choirs alternating soli. The music of that ending is lost, just like the rest of Arianna, and leaves us curious about its character.
Several scholars agree that the later (printed) version would not have been possible in the narrow space of the Orfeo première. Monteverdi’s dedication to Prince Francesco of the 1609 print made Nino Pirrotta finally exclude the possibility of elaborate machine work for descending and ascending gods.

Serenissimo signore mio signore et patrone colendissimo, La favola d’Orfeo che già nell’Accademia de gl’Invaghiti sotto gl’auspitij di Vostra Altezza fù sopra angusta Scena musicalmente rappresentata, dovendo hora comparire nel gran Teatro dell’universo à far mostra di se à tutti gl’huomini, …*)

(“Most Serene Lord, my lord and most esteemed patron, The fable of Orpheus, which was already performed in a narrow stage musically in the Accademia de gl'Invaghiti under the auspices of Your Excellency, having now to appear in the great Theater of the universe to show itself to all men, ...") 

In La Tragedia di Claudio M, the initial finale of Orfeo is crossfaded with the original ending of L'Arianna, where Bacchus arrives as the saving god, and the original ending of Orfeo, the death of Orpheus, lynched by the furies (Baccanti).

Orpheus’ lamenting monologue at the beginning of Orfeo, Act V, which is only answered by an echo (Eco), demonstrates his narcissistic and projected love for an idealised Eur

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (Italian pronunciation: ; 7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide.

Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, northern Tuscany.

He began his musical career as a drummer, but later formed a band that performed his own songs. He also had written for popular French-American singer Joe Dassin, contributing some of his most famous songs, including "L'été indien", "Et si tu n'existais pas" and Le Jardin du Luxembourg (written with Vito Pallavicini).

In 1976 Cutugno participated first time in San Remo Music Festival coming with his band Albatros in 3rd place. He then won in 1980 with the song "Solo noi" ("Only us", in Italian), and subsequently finished second in six editions: in 1984 with the song "Serenata" ("Serenade"), in 1987 with "Figli" ("Sons"), in 1988 with "Emozioni" ("Emotions"), in 1989 with the song "Le mamme" ("The Mamas"), in 1990 with Ray Charles with the song "Gli amori" ("Loves", but entitled "Good Love Gone Bad in Charles' version) and in 2005 with Annalisa Minetti with the song "Come noi nessuno al mondo" ("No One Else in the World Like Us). In total Cutugno participated in the festival 13 times.

He won Eurovision

Italian journalist and former politician (born 1952)

Giuliano Ferrara (born 7 January 1952) is an Italian journalist, television presenter, and former politician. He is the founding editor of Il Foglio. Born into a communist and anti-fascist family, Ferrara took part to the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, he joined the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and carried out political activity within the PCI, and at the same time dedicated himself to journalism, collaborating with Corriere della Sera since 1982 with the column "Bretelle Rosse". Later in the 1980s, he joined the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), with which he became a member of the European Parliament (1989–1994).

After the dissolution of the PSI in 1994, Ferrara joined Silvio Berlusconi's political party Forza Italia (FI); he was Minister for Parliamentary Relations in the first Berlusconi government (1994–1995) and then focused on his journalistic career, founding Il Foglio in 1996, the same year he also became for a year the editor-in-chief of the Berlusconi-owned news magazine Panorama. Ferrara returned to active politics in 2007, re-opening the debate on the topic of abortion and proposing an international moratorium. In the 2008 Italian general election, he was a candidate at the Chamber of Deputies with the list he founded in the same year, the "Association for the Defense o