Zecchino d'Oro is an annual Italian competition dedicated to children's music established in 1959 by Niny Comolli. It is broadcast by Rai 1 and is open to singers aged 4 to 10.
Maria Rachele "Mariele" Ventre was an Italian musician and singer, the founder and director of Italian children's choir Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano.
Sabrina Simoni has been interested in classical music since her childhood.
Istituto Antoniano was created in Bologna in 1953 by the Franciscans,. The Convent of the Franciscans who govern the establishment is built next to the Church of St. Antonio, hence the name of the Institute.
Cesare Cremonini is an Italian singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.
Cristina D'Avena is an Italian actress, singer and television personality. She has sold nearly 7 million copies of her albums.
Claudio Baglioni is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. His career has been going on for over 50 years.
Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director, writer and producer.
Afro Poli was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan area is home to more than 1,000,000 people. Bologna is most famous for being the home to the oldest university in continuous operation, the University of Bologna, established in AD 1088.
Salvatore Di Vittorio is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York. He has been recognized by Luigi Verdi as a "lyrical musical spirit, respectful of the ancient Italian tradition… an emerging leading interpreter of the music of Ottorino Respighi".
Gloria Banditelli is an Italian mezzo-soprano. She debuted in La Cenerentola in Spoleto in 1979. She is well known both for late-classical early-bel canto era roles of Rossini, Cimarosa and Paisiello, and also baroque opera, such as Monteverdi and Cavalli.
Giovanni Caccamo is an Italian singer and songwriter. After being discovered by singer Franco Battiato and producer Caterina Caselli, he won the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, with the song "Ritornerò da te", and released his debut album, Qui per te.
The Sanremo Music Festival 2017, officially the 67th Italian Song Festival, was the 67th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, between 7 and 11 February 2017, organised and broadcast by RAI. The show was hosted by Carlo Conti, who was also the artistic director of the competition, and Maria De Filippi. Each evening show included a satirical sketch by Maurizio Crozza.
Romano Volta is an Italian businessman who is the executive chairman and founder of Datalogic, an Italian company manufacturing barcode readers, mobile computers, radio-frequency identification, sensors for detection, and other electronic equipment.
The Coro Monti Pallidi is an Italian all-men a cappella chorus from Laives (Italy).
Aldo Agatino Forbice was an Italian radio host and journalist. As a radio host he was most well known for hosting the Rai Radio 1 program Zapping from 1994 to 2012. He was also an author of long-form essay novels, poetry compilations, and several fiction books, many of which won literary awards in Italy.
