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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Plainfield Symphony Orchestra’s concert on April 26 will be “an immersive experience” featuring three works by renowned Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). Under the baton of Maestro ...

Fascism, according to a 1932 Italian encyclopedia, is “the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising again after many ...

Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. Familiar works that engage listeners in emotional time-travel include Vaughan Williams’ “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” and much of the ...

If treatments for his “glass arm” had not kept Conductor Toscanini so long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi’s Maria Egiziaca might have caused more ...

At the Gardner Museum next weekend, A Far Cry will perform Ottorino Respighi’s 1927 “Trittico Botticelliano”: musical impressions of three paintings — “Spring,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” and “The ...

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 ...

Donald Macleod explores the richly evocative musical landscape of Ottorino Respighi This week, we’re invited to explore the richly evocative musical landscape of Ottorino Respighi. The colourful ...