International artist Mika is very much loved in Italy. In September 2015 he surprised a few passers-by with this incredible street performance in Milan. Mika has lived in Italy for a few years and speaks fluently Italian.
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Italian Media: Movies, Music, TV, Radio
Italian Classical Music
Italy: cradle of Classical music When we speak about classical music, we truly speak about centuries and centuries of western musical creation. The adjective is, by definition, associated to music rooted in the Western cultural heritage, and composed between the 11th and the 20th century. Both profane and sacred music composed and performed in […]
Italian Traditional Music, Where It All Began
The multi-cultural origins of Italian traditional and popular music. Italy is a young country, after all. It only unified in 1861, a century and a half ago. We are used to consider pre-unification Italy as a political melting pot of states and principalities, often ruled over by foreign powers. What we […]
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi, one of the greatest composers in Italian history, left a great legacy to the people of Italy in the form of his music.
Pippo Baudo
From Left: Baudo, Bongiorno, Corrado, Tortora Pippo Baudo is one of the best known figures on Italian television. The Early Years Baudo was always interested in show business and as a boy tried his hand in theater. Pippo gained a small amount of fame as a piano player and […]
Top Opera Houses
From North to South, Italy is home to many incredible Opera Houses. Teatro La Fenice in Venice This theater, located in beautiful Venice, was built at the end of the 18th century and – as befits its name – was burned down and rebuilt… twice in the 19th century. Then, it […]
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was an Italian composer and virtuoso violinist who lived in the 18th century. Until today, Niccolo Paganini is considered one of the greatest violinists in the world that has ever lived! The greatest violinist, Niccolo Paganini The radical and brilliant innovations in the violin technique of Paganini are still […]
Original American Songs covered in Italian
Covering a popular song is a pretty common occurance in American music: artists pay tribute to others by doing so, often freshening up the success of a tune. Some examples? Well, the first coming into my mind draw from my grunge-punk (god bless the 1990s!) background, still provide good examples: […]
Maria De Filippi
American TV has personalities like Oprah and Barbara Walters, women who have become household names while ruling the airwaves. One of the Italian equivalents would be Maria De Filippi –blonde, long-limbed and husky voiced, she is one of the indisputable queens of Italian TV. Perhaps not as refined and traditionally sexy as compatriots […]
Fabrizio De Andre’
Fabrizio De André. Ph. Public Domain on wikimedia The true nature of Fabrizio De André was that of a poet: he was probably more of a lyricist than a musician or a singer. Let’s not be mistaken, he was an excellent performer and a great composer, but the strength and […]