Composed in Rome in the shadow of the impending First World War, Ottorino Respighi’s Sinfonia drammatica is a rarity both in ...

Rautendelein (Brandie Sutton) and the creatures of the forest in La Campana Sommersa. Sarah Shatz In the nearly two seasons since the “new” New York City Opera launched with a dismal exhumation of ...

In this series, Donald Macleod explores Ottorino Respighi’s life and music from different perspectives, including his associations with Bologna, Rome and the USA; the important presence of his wife, ...

“Orchestral Blockbuster.” “Stereo Spectacular.” Such were the words used, in the heyday of hi-fi, to push records of the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi’s so-called “Roman Trilogy” of tone poems: ...

The Plainfield Symphony will present Respighi Festival concert on April 26 at 7:00 pm. The event will take place at the Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church at 716 Watchung Ave, Plainfield, NJ, 07060.

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Mark Pullinger is seduced by Respighi at his most colourful in a 1934 suite culled from a ballet As a sucker for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, it was only a matter of time before I succumbed to ...

Composed over the course of 12 tumultuous years – from Italy’s disastrous participation in the First World War (1915-6) to the consolidation of Mussolini’s regime (1928) - the Roman Trilogy shows the ...

A striking performance of Respighi’s Roman Trilogy under Antonio Pappano was matched by an assured and adventurous Lise de la Salle Complete performances of Respighi ’s Roman Trilogy have proliferated ...

Ottorino Respighi was a big fan of the music that came a few centuries before him, and he often re-tooled the old formulas to fit his music. Jesus Lopez Cobos leads the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in ...

In Milan last week a premiere for which Italy had waited almost a year came to pass. Nobles, diplomats, artists and high society packed into La Scala to hear singers retell the story of Lucretia’s ...