Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.
Giuseppe Felice Romani was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between Metastasio and Boito.
Francesco Giuseppe Baldassare Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.
The Cimitero Monumentale[tʃimiˈtɛːro monumenˈtaːle] is one of the two largest cemeteries in Milan, Italy, the other one being the Cimitero Maggiore. It is noted for the abundance of artistic tombs and monuments.
Gino Cervi was an Italian actor.
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include Quaderno di strada (2003) and La porta della legge (2006–08).
Louis Siciliano is an Italian film composer, poly-instrumentalist, sound engineer and music producer.
Vittorio Baldini was an Italian printer and engraver. He started publishing in Venice, where he was born, and later moved to Ferrara, joining the court of Duke Alfonso II d'Este in mid-to-late 1582, where he was the official ducal music printer. He may have met the duke through Giulio Cesare Brancaccio, whose translation and commentary on Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico Baldini printed in early 1582.
Cesare Sterbini was an Italian writer and librettist.
Vinicio Capossela is an Italian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.
Massimo Milano is an ethnomusicologist, critic and sound experimentalist.
Paolo Baltaro, is a musician, singer, songwriter, producer, and founder of Banksville Records.
Simone Cecchetti is an Italian portrait photographer.
Paolo Rossi is an Italian actor, writer, comedian, singer-songwriter and television personality.
Luigi Ceccarelli is an Italian composer.
JD Foster is an American record producer, bassist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter. He is known for working with country and Americana performers including Dwight Yoakam and Patty Griffin.
Remo Anzovino is an Italian composer, musician and criminal lawyer.
Diari aperti is the tenth studio album by Italian singer Elisa, released by Universal Music Group on 26 October 2018. It was produced by Elisa with Taketo Gohara and Andrea Rigonat and features a collaboration with Francesco De Gregori.
Sogno n° 1, is a posthumous tribute album to Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André, released in 2011 and featuring De André's original isolated vocals over entirely new orchestral backing tracks, arranged by British conductor and composer Geoff Westley and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Including vocal contributions from Franco Battiato, Vinicio Capossela and De André's widow Dori Ghezzi, the album is a collaborative effort of Westley and Ghezzi's, originally released in aid of her Fondazione Fabrizio De André charity organization.
"Se piovesse il tuo nome" is a song by Italian singer Elisa. It was written by singer-songwriter Calcutta, Vanni Casagrande and Dario Faini and produced by Elisa with Andrea Rigonat and Taketo Gohara.
