Lorenzo Ferrero
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Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera
Opera
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, a librettist, author
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, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. His musical idiom is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility, and a neo-tonal language.

Biography

Born in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

, he was initially self-taught, then studied composition from 1969 to 1973 with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri at Turin Music Conservatory, and philosophy with Gianni Vattimo
Gianni Vattimo
Gianteresio Vattimo, also known as Gianni Vattimo is an internationally recognized Italian author, philosopher, and politician. Many of his works have been translated into English.-Biography:...

 and Massimo Mila at the University of Turin
University of Turin
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, earning a degree in aesthetics with a thesis on John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

 in 1974.

His early interest in the psychology of perception and psychoacoustics led him to IMEB, the International Electroacoustic Music Institute of Bourges
Bourges
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, France
France
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 where he did research on electronic music between 1972 and 1973, IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

 in Paris
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, and to the Musik/Dia/Licht/Film Galerie in Munich
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, Germany
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 in 1974.

Lorenzo Ferrero has received commissions from numerous festivals and institutions, his works being constantly performed throughout Europe and North America, particularly in Italy
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, Germany
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, France
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, Great Britain
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, Spain
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, Finland
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, Russia
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, the Czech Republic
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, and the United States
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. His most popular compositions include the opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

s Marilyn, La figlia del mago, Mare nostro, Salvatore Giuliano, and La conquista, the first Piano Concerto, the Triple Concerto for violin, violoncello and piano, the set of six symphonic poems La nueva España, the song cycle
Song cycle
A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...

 Canzoni d'amore, Parodia, Ostinato, Glamorama Spies, Capriccio for piano and string orchestra, Tempi di quartetto for string quartet
String quartet
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, and the ballet
Ballet
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 Franca Florio, regina di Palermo. In 1986 he was awarded the Prix Italia
Prix Italia
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 for his work La fuga di Foscolo.

As an active opera conductor and manager of art events, he has served as artistic director of the Festival Puccini
Festival Puccini
The Festival Puccini is an annual summer opera festival held in July and August to present the operas of the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini....

in Torre del Lago
Torre del Lago
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 (1980-84), Unione Musicale in Turin
Turin
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 (1983-87), Arena di Verona
Verona Arena
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 (1991-94), and the Musica 2000 fair. In 1999 he co-founded and coordinated the Festa della Musica, a showcase of classical, jazz and world music held in Milan
Milan
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, and four years later he managed the Ravello Festival
Ravello Festival
The Ravello Festival is also popularly known as the "Wagner Festival" and is an annual summer festival of music and the arts held in the town of Ravello on the Amalfi coast in the Campania region of Italy...

. In 2007 Lorenzo Ferrero was appointed to the board of directors and elected vice-president of SIAE
Italian Society of Authors and Publishers
The Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori , mostly know by its acronym SIAE, is an Italian public performance-rights organization responsible for the protection and exercise of copyright in Italy...

, the Italian Authors and Publishers Association. That same year he published the Manuale di scrittura musicale, a manual which describes the basic rules of correct and elegant music writing from the orthographic as well as the graphic point of view, which is addressed to all composers, musicologists, teachers, students and copy-editors in need of practical advice. In 2008 he translated, edited and published Lo studio dell'orchestrazione, a landmark orchestration manual. His music is published by Casa Ricordi
Casa Ricordi
Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

 Milan
Milan
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.

Lorenzo Ferrero is professor of composition at Milan Conservatory
Milan Conservatory
The Milan Conservatory is a college of music which was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially 18 boarders,...

 since 1980. His teaching appointments further include positions at St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's College of Maryland
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 and LUISS Business School, a division of LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome
Rome
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. Moreover, on behalf of UNCLA, the Italian National Union of Composers, Librettists and Authors, he is currently a member of the Coercion Committee of ECSA
ECSA - European Composer and Songwriter Alliance
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, the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, and represents the SIAE as chairman of CIAM, the International Council of Creators of Music, which is a committee within CISAC
Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs
Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs , founded in 1926, is a performance rights organisation, which coordinates the protection of its member creators' rights.As of June 2010, CISAC numbers 229 authors’ societies from 121 countries and indirectly represents more than...

, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.

He features in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "the most successful opera composer of his generation in Italy," and in The New Penguin Opera Guide as "a principal exponent of the neo-tonal tendencies common to a number of Italian composers of his generation, who has championed a brand of narrative music-theatre that aims to capture a wider audience than that achieved by the heirs of the modernist tradition."

Works

In addition to the original works listed below, Lorenzo Ferrero completed the orchestration of the third version of the opera La rondine
La rondine
La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert...

by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...

, which was subsequently premiered at Teatro Regio di Torino on 22 March, 1994. With a group of six other Italian composers he wrote the Requiem per le vittime della mafia, a collaborative composition for soloists, choir and orchestra on an Italian text by Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo
Vincenzo Consolo is an Italian writer. He has lived in Milan since 1969. He debuted in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio and has since become an award-winning author.- References :...

. The requiem was first performed in the Palermo Cathedral on 27 March, 1993. Furthermore, he wrote the music for the Sestriere
Sestriere
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 Alpine World Ski Championships
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997
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 opening ceremony of 1997 including the official anthem, incidental music for stage productions, and a film score. Several performance videos can be viewed on YouTube
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.

Opera

  • Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil (1978) quasi un melodramma in three acts
  • Marilyn (1979) scenes from the 1950s in two acts
  • La figlia del mago (1981) giocodramma melodioso in two acts
  • Mare nostro (1985) comic opera in two acts
  • Night (1985) opera in one act
  • Salvatore Giuliano (1985) opera in one act
  • Charlotte Corday (1989) opera in three acts
  • Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir (1989) marionette opera
  • La nascita di Orfeo (1996) musical action in one act
  • La conquista (2005) opera in two acts
  • Le piccole storie - ai margini delle guerre (2007) chamber opera in one act
  • Risorgimento! (2010) opera in one act

Ballet

  • Invito a nozze (1978) ballet
  • Lotus Eaters (1985) ballet
  • Franca Florio, regina di Palermo (2007) ballet in two acts

Orchestral music

  • Ellipse IV (Waldmusik) (1974) for folk ensemble ad libitum
  • Romanza seconda (1977) for bassoon and strings
  • Arioso (1977) for orchestra and live electronics
  • Arioso II (1981) for large orchestra
  • Balletto (1981) for orchestra
  • My blues (1982) for string orchestra
  • Thema 44 (ad honorem J. Haydn) (1982) for small orchestra
  • Ombres (1984) for orchestra and live electronics
  • The Miracle (1985) ballet suite
  • Intermezzo notturno from Mare nostro (1985) for small orchestra
  • Intermezzo "Portella della Ginestra" from Salvatore Giuliano (1986) for orchestra
  • Four Modern Dances (1990) for small orchestra
  • Zaubermarsch (1990) for small orchestra
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1991)
  • Paesaggio con figura (1994) for small orchestra
  • Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra (1994-95)
  • Palm Beach Overture (1995) for orchestra
  • Capriccio (1996) for piano and string orchestra
  • Three Baroque Buildings (1997) for bassoon, trumpet, and strings
  • Championship Suite (1997) for large orchestra
  • Storie di neve (1997) music for the Alpine World Ski Championships opening ceremony
  • La nueva España (1992-99), a set of six symphonic poems
    • La ruta de Cortés (1992)
    • La noche triste (1996)
    • Memoria del fuego (1998)
    • Presagios (1999)
    • El encuentro (1999)
    • La matanza del Templo Mayor (1999)
  • Rastrelli in Saint Petersburg (2000) for oboe and string orchestra
  • Two Cathedrals in the South (2001) for trumpet and string orchestra
  • Five Easy Pieces (2002) transcription for orchestra
  • Guarini, the Master (2004) for violin and strings
  • DEsCH (2006) for oboe, bassoon, piano, and orchestra
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 (2007)
  • Quatro variazioni su un tema di Banchieri: 2 Agosto. Prima variazione (2008) for organ and orchestra
  • Fantasy Suite No. 2 (2009) for violin and orchestra

Chamber/Instrumental

  • Primavera che non vi rincresca (1971) electronic tape piece
  • Ellipse III (1974) for any 4 players/ensembles
  • Siglied (1975) for chamber orchestra
  • Romanza senza parole (1976) for chamber ensemble
  • Adagio cantabile (1977) for small orchestra
  • Variazioni sulla notte (1980) for guitar
  • Respiri (1982) for flute and piano
  • Soleils (1982) for harp
  • Ellipse (1983) for flute
  • Onde (1983) for guitar
  • My rock (1985) (versions for piano and for big band)
  • Empty Stage (1985) for 4 clarinets and piano
  • My Blues (1986) for flute and piano
  • Passacaglia (1986) for flute, clarinet, and string quartet
  • Ostinato (1987) for 6 violoncelli
  • Parodia (1990) for chamber ensemble
  • Discanto sulla musica sull'acqua di Handel (1990) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, and percussion
  • Cadenza (1990) for clarinet and marimba
  • Musica per un paesaggio (1990) for small orchestra
  • Movimento americano (1992) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet
  • Ostinato (1993) for two violoncelli and strings
  • Portrait (1994) for string quartet
  • Seven Seconds (1995) for clarinet, violin, and piano
  • Shadow Lines (1995) for flute and live electronics
  • My Piece of Africa (1996) for violin, viola, violoncello, and contrabass
  • Five Easy Pieces (1997) for flute and piano (version of a piano work)
  • Tempi di quartetto (1996-98) for string quartet
  • Glamorama Spies (1999) for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano
  • Sonata (2000) for viola and piano
  • Moonlight Sonata (2001) for 5 percussion instruments
  • Three Baroque Buildings in a Frame (2002) for flute and string quartet
  • Macuilli Mexihcateteouch - Five Aztec Gods (2005) for string quartet
  • Haring at the Exhibition (2005) ambient piece
  • Fantasy Suite (2007) for flute, violoncello and piano
  • Freedom Variations (2008) for trumpet and chamber ensemble
  • Tourists and Oracles (2008) for eleven instruments and piano four-hands
  • Three Simple Songs (2009) for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano


Piano music
  • Aivlys (1977)
  • My Rag (1982)
  • My Blues (1982)
  • My Rock (1983)
  • Rock my Tango (1990)
  • Five Easy Pieces (1994)
  • Seven Portraits of the Same Person (1996)
  • Op.111 - Bagatella su Beethoven (2009)


Organ and harpsichord
  • Ellipse II (1975) for harpsichord/clavichord
  • A Red Wedding Dress (1998) for organ

Choral/Vocal music

  • Fawn (1969/70) for voice and live synthesizer
  • Immigrati (1969/70) for voice and live synthesizer
  • Ellipse III (1974) for any 4 voices/choruses
  • Ghost Tantra (1975) for voice and synthesizer
  • Missa Brevis (1975) for 5 voices and two synthesizers
  • Le néant où l'on ne peut arriver (1976) for solo voices, mixed chorus, and orchestra
  • Non parto, non resto (1987) for mixed chorus
  • Introito, part of the Requiem per le vittime della mafia (1993) for chorus and orchestra

  • Night of the Nite (1979) aria from Marilyn for soprano and piano
  • Canzoni d'amore (1985) for voice and chamber ensemble
  • La fuga di Foscolo (1986) for 4 soloists, speaker, and small orchestra
  • Poi andro in America (1986) aria from Salvatore Giuliano for voice and orchestra
  • Ninna-nanna (1986) for tenor and piano
  • La conquista (2006) symphonic-choral suite
  • Canti polacchi (2010) for female choir and orchestra

Incidental/Theatre music

  • Nebbia di latte (1987) for flutes and live electronics
  • La cena delle beffe (1988) stage music for Carmelo Bene
    Carmelo Bene
    Carmelo Bene was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 20 films between 1967 and 2002...

  • Maschere (1993) for Le Massere by Carlo Goldoni
    Carlo Goldoni
    Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...

     for string quartet
  • Lontano dagli occhi (1999) for one actor, 4 voices, and piano quartet
  • Mozart a Recanati (2006) for one actress, 1 voice, string trio, clarinet, and piano

Books/Book contributions

  • Ferrero, Lorenzo (2007). Manuale di scrittura musicale. Torino: EDT Srl.
  • Ferrero, Lorenzo, ed. (2008). Lo studio dell'orchestrazione. Torino: EDT Srl.


  • Ostali, P, ed. (1990). Il Piccolo Marat: Storia e rivoluzione nel melodramma verista. Atti del terzo convegno di studi su Pietro Mascagni. Milan: Casa Musicale Sonzogno.
  • Harpner, S, ed. (1992). Über Musiktheater: Eine Festschrift. Munich: Ricordi.
  • Pozzi, S, ed. (2002). La musica sacra nelle chiese cristiane. Bologna: Alfastudio.
  • Donati, P, and Pacetti, E, eds. (2002). C'erano una volta nove oscillatori... Lo studio di fonologia della Rai di Milano nello sviluppo della nuova musica in Italia. Teche. Rome: RAI Teche; Milano: Scuole civiche di Milano, Fondazione di partecipazione, Accademia internazionale della musica, Istituto di ricerca musicale; Rome: RAI-ERI.
  • Maurizi, P, ed. (2004). Quattordici interviste sul «nuovo teatro musicale» in Italia. Perugia: Morlacchi Editore.

Discography

Year Title Genre Label
1991 Lorenzo Ferrero: Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra, Parodia, Ostinato, Canzoni d'amore Classical Nuova Era
1992 Lorenzo Ferrero: Mare nostro Classical Ricordi
1998 Lorenzo Ferrero - Different Views: La ruta de Cortés, La noche triste, Championship Suite, Palm Beach Overture Classical BMG Ricordi
1999 Lorenzo Ferrero: Capriccio per pianoforte e archi, Concerto per violino, violoncello, pianoforte e orchestra, Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra Classical BMG Ricordi
2000 Lorenzo Ferrero: La nueva España Classical Naxos

Year Title Genre Label
1972 Musica Elettronica - Computer Music: Immigrati, Fawn Electronic Compagnia Editoriale Pianeta
1972 Les Saisons: Primavera che non vi rincresca Electronic IMEB
1976 Steirischer Herbst - Ferrero-Neuwirth-Rühm: Le néant où l'on ne peut arriver Classical ORF
1987 Steirischer Herbst - Musikprotokoll 1987: Ostinato Classical ORF
1994 Flavio Cucchi - Italian Guitar Music: Onde Classical Arc Music
1995 Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin. Visse devotes himself to performing of secular and religious music of the Renaissance. He is principally known for his interpretations of the Parisian chansons.He was a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame...

 - Songs for Seven Centuries: Mi palpita il cuore
Classical King Records
2002 Sentieri selvaggi
Sentieri selvaggi
Sentieri Selvaggi is an Italian musical ensemble, specialising in contemporary music.It was founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno and Angelo Miotto...

 - Bad Blood: Glamorama Spies
World music Sensible Records
2003 Saxophone Colours - Italian & French music for saxophone and piano: My Blues Classical Stradivarius
2004 L'arte del funambolo - new Italian music for saxophone & piano: My Blues Classical Stradivarius
2006 Sentieri selvaggi
Sentieri selvaggi
Sentieri Selvaggi is an Italian musical ensemble, specialising in contemporary music.It was founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno and Angelo Miotto...

 - AC/DC: Glamorama Spies
Classical Cantaloupe Music
2009 Ex Novo Ensemble - Ex Novo Ensemble: Three Simple Songs Classical Stradivarius
2011 Duo Alterno
Duo Alterno
The Duo Alterno is an Italian voice-piano chamber ensemble specializing in 19th century and contemporary classical music. The Duo made up of soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and composer-pianist Riccardo Piacentini....

 - La voce contemporanea in Italia: Canzoni d'amore
Classical Stradivarius

Year Title Genre Label
1982 Zeitgenössische Musik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1970-80: Glas-Spiele (as performer) Electronic Harmonia mundi
1986 Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl is a German composer.-Biography:Following a period of studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and in courses given by Hermann Scherchen in Gravesano, Riedl, influenced by Carl Orff und Edgar Varèse, devoted himself as a composer particularly to percussion and...

 - Klangfelder: Klangsynchronie II, Reaktion auf Komposition für Elektronische Klänge Nr. 2, Epiphyt II (as performer)
Electronic Loft
2009 Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl is a German composer.-Biography:Following a period of studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and in courses given by Hermann Scherchen in Gravesano, Riedl, influenced by Carl Orff und Edgar Varèse, devoted himself as a composer particularly to percussion and...

 - Klangregionen 1951-2007: Mix Fontana Mix, Klangsynchronie I (as performer)
Electronic Edition RZ
2010 Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl
Josef Anton Riedl is a German composer.-Biography:Following a period of studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and in courses given by Hermann Scherchen in Gravesano, Riedl, influenced by Carl Orff und Edgar Varèse, devoted himself as a composer particularly to percussion and...

 - vielleicht-perhaps-peut-être: Glas-Spiele (as performer)
Electronic Neos

Year Title Genre Label
1995 Vienna Noël: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Noëls d'autre fois, When A Child is Born, Carol of the Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas, A Very Private Christmas, Kumbayah, My Lord - arrangements by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols Sony Classical
1995 Christmas in Vienna III
Christmas in Vienna III
Christmas in Vienna III is a 1995 Christmas album released by Spanish operatic tenor Plácido Domingo, French chanson and pop music star Charles Aznavour, and Norwegian crossover soprano Sissel Kyrkjebø on the Sony Classical label.It was recorded on December 22, 1994 at the Alte Winterreitschule in...

: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Noëls d'autre fois, When A Child is Born, Carol of the Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Kumbayah, and A Very Private Christmas - arrangements by Lorenzo Ferrero
Christmas carols Sony Classical
1997 A Tenors Christmas: A Very Private Christmas - arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols Sony Classical
1997 Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo
Plácido Domingo KBE , born José Plácido Domingo Embil, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range...

 - The Domingo Collection: The Student Prince: I'll walk with God - arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero
Christmas carols Sony Classical
1998 The Best of Christmas in Vienna: Noëls d'autre fois, When a Child is Born, Carol of the Bells, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Kumbayah - arrangements by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols Sony Classical
1998 I'll be Home for Christmas: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, A Very Private Christmas, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Kumbayah - arrangements by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols Sony Classical
2000 Christmas All Over The World: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols Sony Classical
2006 Weihnachtszeit mit Holger Wemhoff: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Patapan, When a Child is Born - arrangements by Lorenzo Ferrero Christmas carols

See also

  • La rondine
    La rondine
    La rondine is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert...


  • Italian opera
    Italian opera
    Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was born in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has continued to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign composers,...


  • Glamorama
    Glamorama
    Glamorama is a novel by American writer Bret Easton Ellis. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. Unlike Ellis' previous novels, Glamorama is set in and satirizes the 1990s, specifically celebrity culture and consumerism...


  • DSCH motif

  • 1985 in music
    1985 in music
    This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1985.-January–March:*January 1 - The newest music video channel, VH-1, debuts on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV...


  • Italian unification
    Italian unification
    Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century...




  • Classical music written in collaboration
    Classical music written in collaboration
    In classical music, it is relatively rare for a work to be written in collaboration by multiple composers. This contrasts with popular music, where it is common for more than one person to contribute to the music for a song...


  • Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

  • ECSA - European Composer and Songwriter Alliance
    ECSA - European Composer and Songwriter Alliance
    The European Composer and Songwriter Alliance is an international non-profit organization established in 2008 and registered under Belgian law with an office in the , Flagey, Brussels....


  • CISAC - Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs
    Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs
    Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d´Auteurs et Compositeurs , founded in 1926, is a performance rights organisation, which coordinates the protection of its member creators' rights.As of June 2010, CISAC numbers 229 authors’ societies from 121 countries and indirectly represents more than...



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