Sept. 23 – Two sold out show for a total of 5,400 spectators, 2 standing ovations, 2 years of work, 16 Italian scores, 3 award-winning soloists and one Oscar-winner on stage: Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema was a great success. The show, held on September 16-17 in New York, brought for the first time in 173 years, the New York Philharmonic to open its season with the great Italian soundtracks. The show will soon come to Italy, in the summer of 2015, for two dates organized by International Music and Arts. “Our goal is to rediscover Italy’s great movie scores and bring it to Italy and around the world,” said with pride Filippo Sugar, Chairman & CEO of Sugar, who for the past two years has worked on the project. “We combined Italian and American excellence – said Caterina Caselli – And we brought to the stage only the very best of what has been composed by our great musical masters. The performance at Lincoln Center can be considered the world premiere of this project, because we now seek to bring this amazing reality to the most important performing centers of the world.” (Red)
