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Performances of Nino Rota’s Music in Luxembourg, Belgium and Italy

Jan. 27, 2023

On January 6, 8, and 15, Ryan McAdams led The Belgian National Orchestra in performances of Nino Rota’s music for two Federico Fellini’s films – Amarcord and Otto e mezzo – in Luxembourg and Belgium.


(Amarcord (Arr. Ross)/Filarmonica della Scala/Riccardo Chailly, conductor)

Additionally, James Feddeck led the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in performances of Napoli Milionaria! at various venues around Italy, from the Teatro Sociale, in Como (January 15), Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona (January 20 and 22), and at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo (January 27 and 29). Napoli Milionaria! is a lyric drama in three acts with a libretto by Eduardo de Filippo based on his same named comedy.

During the period in which the drama was written – the first performance took place in Naples in March 1945 – Eduardo de Filippo was considered one of the chief representatives of Italian Neo-Realism. His works present a frequently somber illustration of Italian everyday life under the Fascists, Nazis and struggles against the horrors of war. The germ cell of resistance and at the same time the receptacle for old traditions is always the family. The family is however threatened by war, combat and the new era dawning after liberation on a population which has not yet learned to cope with it – as in Napoli Milionaria!, depicting the downfall of a family which despite having survived the war has become deeply insecure and is ultimately destroyed by the ‘new era’ following liberation.

For the opera composed thirty years after de Filippo’s drama, Nino Rota created a score with reminiscences of Italian verismo, underscoring the Neo-Realistic pathos of de Filippo’s plot through rich orchestration and cantabile vocal lines. 


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Nino Rota
Amarcord (1973)
Suite for orchestra
compiled by William Ross
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4’

Otto e mezzo (1963)
Suite for orchestra
compiled by William Ross
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5’

Napoli Milionaria! (1973 - 1977)
Lyric drama in three acts
Libretto by Eduardo de Filippo
based on his comedy of the same name
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On Stage: pno.gtr.mand.vln

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