Singer-songwriter Gianfranco Caliendo will perform a concert at the Teatro Troisi in Naples on October 3rd at 8:30 PM. The show is the culmination of “50 Vite Tour”, a long series of dates that saw the artist busy from winter to summer, celebrating five decades of professional music. A career that officially began with the […]
Staging History with words, music and wonder
Journey of an architect-actor through the stories of a historic Neapolitan theater – By P. Reeti Tommaso Tuccillo made his debut at the age of 4, during a show at Enel (Italy’s National Electricity Board), where his father worked. The child surprised the audience with his interpretation of ‘’A livella ‘ a poem by Antonio […]
Federica Totaro: the magma inside
Igniting performance through the power of restless energy – By N. Yakova Just as vocation presents itself to priests, art knocks on Federica’s door. She says: it “tuzzulea”(Neapolitan for “softly knocks”). You ask yourself what it wants, where it wants to take you. If you pretend nothing is happening, it comes knocking again, “rituzzulea”, and, […]
Queen of Opera
The absolute First Lady on the Hawaiian music scene D’Andrea Pellettier comes from from Virginia Beach, East Coast of Virginia. She grew up immersed in arts as a result of the mixed different cultures of her home town. She comes from the Piscataway-Conoy tribe and she has a background in language, philosophy, and fine arts. […]
Rebel music. The dangerous act of bringing the opera to Iran
The man who brought opera to Iran. Since after the revolution the opera was not welcomed in Iran but Ara Karapetian, conductor, choir master and vocal coach, managed to perform a kind of miracle realizing his dream and the dream of many other Iranian artists. Since he was a child Ara always loved music and […]
Meet Flavio Sanguinetti
The multiple faces of the artist captured with one lens You might have seen him on the stage of La Voz Perú singing Y se llama Perú by Augusto Polo Campos. His name is Flavio Sanguinetti and he was born in Perú to Italian parents.Music was his first passion. At 16 he started to compose […]
Talent Spotlight featuring Iranian percussionist Erfan Hatami
His name is Erfan Hatami and he is a percussionist and a singer. Born in Iran he started to play “Tonbak”, which is one of the most important Persian percussions, when he was just 7 years old. Erfan has always performed as a percussionist with internationally renowned artists. He toured the world and since some […]
Immigrant? No, thanks!
Neapolitan musician producer Daniele De Cario is a ‘bird of passage’ in Los Angeles. Those who emigrate is clear that are not comfortable in their country. But emigration is often a well-organized phenomenon that involves the moving of people to a country that needs a workforce. By making a land inhospitable, poor and uninhabitable, inhabitants […]