Nino Rota

Italian

Summary

Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II (1974). 
During his long career, Rota was an extraordinarily prolific composer, especially of music for the cinema. He wrote more than 150 scores for Italian and international productions from the 1930s until his death in 1979—an average of three scores each year over a 46-year period, and in his most productive period from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s he wrote as many as ten scores every year, and sometimes more, with a remarkable thirteen film scores to his credit in 1954. Alongside this great body of film work, he composed ten operas, five ballets and dozens of other orchestral, choral and chamber works, the best known being his string concerto. He also composed the music for many theatre productions by Visconti, Zeffirelli and Eduardo De Filippo as well as maintaining a long teaching career at the Liceo Musicale in Bari, Italy, where he was the director for almost 30 years.
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Performances

1st January 2024

PERFORMERS
St Albans Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR
Bill Carslake
LOCATION
St Albans Abbey, St Albans, United Kingdom

2nd February 2024

PERFORMERS
Los Angeles Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR
David Newman
LOCATION
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

3rd February 2024

PERFORMERS
Los Angeles Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR
David Newman
LOCATION
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

4th February 2024

PERFORMERS
Los Angeles Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR
David Newman
LOCATION
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

13th February 2024

PERFORMERS
Queen’s University Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR
Adam McCambridge
LOCATION
Mandela Hall, Belfast, United Kingdom

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