Mar. 23 – It’s anexciting recital for all lovers of Nino Rota melodies, selected from the 150 movie soundtracks composed by the author (from Federico Fellini, Francis Ford Coppola, Franco Zeffirelli, Luchino Visconti and many other directors’ masterpieces). The initiative comes from the Italian Cultural Institute of Marseille and is scheduled for Friday, March 27 (8.30pm). “Chantons avec Nino Rota” offers an artistic adventure that combines cinema, poetry and music. It is a musical comedy for two characters, two women, who dialogue thanks to a piano (Anne-Derivière Gastine) and vocals (Murielle Tomao). The two Fellini characters are transported tanks to Nino Rota’s pop music, melancholy and ironic. Born in Milan in 1911 and died in Rome in 1979, Rota composed operas, ballets, instrumental and sacred music as well as original scores, including Fellini’s La strada, I vitelloni, La dolce vita, 8 1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti, Fellini Satyricon, Roma, Amarcord, Il Casanova, Prova d’orchestra; Monicelli’s La grande guerra; Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli and Il gattopardo; Zeffirelli’s La bisbetica domata, and Romeo e Giulietta; and Coppola’s The Godfather Part I and The Godfather Part II, for which he won the Academy Award.
