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Patrizia Laquidara
Patrizia Laquidara (born October 29, 1972) is an Italian singer and writer. Biography Patrizia Laquidara was born in Catania, on the island of Sicily. When she was very young her family moved to a small town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, where she began studying music and playing in piano bars during weekends. In 1998 she attended a course at CET music school, as composer and singer of popular music of Lombardy and Veneto. This school is run by the well-known Mogol, who wrote the texts of Lucio Battisti songs. She is also interested in the music of many Mediterranean countries and in the music of central Europe and the Balkan region. She often tours Italy with her group, the Hotel Rif. In 1999 one of her songs, "Stella nascente", was included on an album titled ''Canzoni per Ornella Vanoni e Mario Lavezzi'', but her true love at the time was for Brazilian music. Her first solo album, in 2001, was titled ''Para você querido Caé'' (For you, dear Caetano) and was ded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, which is among the largest in Italy. It has important road and rail transport infrastructures, and hosts Catania Airport, the main airport of Sicily (fifth-largest in Italy). The city is located on Sicily's east coast, facing the Ionian Sea at the base of the active volcano Mount Etna. It is the capital of the 58-municipality province known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Italy. The population of the city proper is 297,517, while the population of the metropolitan city is 1,068,563. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks in Magna Graecia. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungaro
Antonio Calò (born 23 May 1964), known professionally as Bungaro, is an Italian singer-songwriter. Biography He participated twice at the "Newcomers" section of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1988 and 1991, and debuted in the main section at Sanremo 2004 with the song "Guardastelle". In 2010, his album ''Arte'' was awarded with the Premio Lunezia. Together with Ornella Vanoni Ornella Vanoni (; born 22 September 1934) is an Italian singer. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in 1956. She has released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits albums, and is considered ... and Pacifico, he returned at the Sanremo Music Festival 2018 with the song "Imparare ad amarsi". In the 2019 edition, he participated as a guest in a duet with Francesco Renga performing "Aspetto che torni". Discography Studio albums * ''Sulla punta della lingua'' (1988) * ''Cantare fa più bene'' (1990) * ''Ci perdiamo in tanti'' (1992) * ''Tutto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Carlotto
Massimo Carlotto (born 22 July 1956) is an Italian writer and playwright. Writer Massimo Carlotto began his literary career, particularly writing novels in the ''noir'' genre, with ''Il fuggiasco'' ("The Fugitive", 1995), a fictionalized autobiography about his time on the run. The book was made into a film in 2003, directed by Andrea Manni, with Daniele Liotti as Carlotto. His most famous character is the Alligator, alias Marco Buratti, an entirely original private detective. In 1998 he published ''Le irregolari'', the autobiographical novel of inquiry in which is told the Argentine civil war and repression of the seventies, during the so-called dirty war. He knows and has interviewed the founder of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Estela Carlotto, whom he transpired to be related to, and who sought news of her daughter and newborn grandson, who numbered among the ''desaparecidos''. In 2001 he released ''Arrivederci, amore ciao'' (which was adapted into the movie '' The G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bologna Conservatory
The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini (previously known as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and better known in English as the Bologna Conservatory) is a college of music in Bologna, Italy. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804, as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna. It was initially housed in the convent at the Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore. The first faculty at the school included the composers Stanislao Mattei and Giovanni Callisto Zanotti, and the composer and singer Lorenzo Gibelli. Gioachino Rossini was a pupil at the school beginning in 1806, and was appointed head of the school in 1839. Later directors of the school included Luigi Mancinelli (1881–1886), Giuseppe Martucci (1886–1902), Marco Enrico Bossi (1902–1911), and Cesare Nordio (1925–1945). In 1945, the conservatory became a state conservatory, and it was rebranded as the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, after musician and composer Giovanni Battista Martini. Directors of the conservatory f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Trade Center (1973–2001)
The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and was collapse of the World Trade Center, destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the 110-story-tall Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (1970–2001), 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at , and 2 World Trade Center (1971–2001), 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) at , were the History of the world's tallest buildings#Skyscrapers: tallest buildings since 1908, tallest buildings in the world; they were also the List of tallest twin buildings and structures, tallest twin skyscrapers in the world until 1996, when the Petronas Towers opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Other buildings in the complex included the Marriott World Trade Center (3 WTC), 4 World Trade Center (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit (; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks between the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City in August 1974. Since then, Petit has lived in New York, where he has been artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, another site of his aerial performances. He has done wire walking as part of official celebrations in New York, across the United States, and in France and other countries, as well as teaching workshops on the art. In 2008, '' Man on Wire'', a documentary directed by James Marsh about Petit's walk between the towers, won numerous awards including the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. '' The Walk'', a film based on Petit's walk, was released in September 2015, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Peti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Dillett
Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name * Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint * Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or Patricius, Bishop of Dublin * Patrick, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c. 1122–1168), Anglo-Norman nobleman * Patrick (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian right-back * Patrick (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian striker *Patrick (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian midfielder * Patrick (footballer, born 1994), Brazilian right-back *Patrick (footballer, born May 1998), Brazilian forward *Patrick (footballer, born November 1998), Brazilian attacking midfielder *Patrick (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian defender * Patrick (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian defender *John Byrne (Scottish playwright) (born 1940), also a painter under the pseudonym Patrick * Don Harris (wrestler) (born 1960), American professional wrestler who uses the ring name Patrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He was a member of the pioneering 1970s no wave group DNA, which featured on the 1978 compilation '' No New York''. In the 1980s, he formed the group Ambitious Lovers. He also performed with the Golden Palominos and the Lounge Lizards. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of unconventional extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey". Music Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he grew up in Brazil. In the late 1970s, he helped form the no wave band DNA with Ikue Mori and Robin Crutchfield, although Tim Wright of Pere Ubu soon replaced Crutchfield. In 1978, DNA was featured on the four-band sampler '' No New York'' (produced by Brian Eno). In the early 1980s, Lindsay performed on early al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funambola
''Funambola'' is an album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2007 by Ponderosa Music&Art. It includes 13 songs and it is inspired by the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the Twin Towers of New York City. Tightrope walking has this time both a physical and an intimate meaning, as a never ending research of a mental equilibrium, perhaps lasting, when found, only the space of a morning. Intimate thought and introspection are actually the main themes of Patrizia Laquidara's songs. Colombo, S (2007). "Laquidara "funambola" delle emozioni viaggia sul filo della canzone d'autore", ''Corriere della Sera'', ''August 31, 2007'' p. 9 Tracks # Pioggia senza zucchero – 3.36 – (P. Laquidara) # Se qualcuno – 3.45 – (P. Laquidara, A. Canto) # Senza pelle – 4.00 – ( G. Casale – R. Tarantino) # Nuove confusioni – 4.00 – (P. Laquidara) # L'equilibrio è un miracolo – 4.08 – (P. Laquidara, E. Cirillo – A. Canto) # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi (born 1962) is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi (writer), Sandro Veronesi. He started his career writing scripts for directors such as Francesco Nuti, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Massimo Ceccherini and Carlo Verdone. He debuted as film director with ''Maramao'' in 1987, before reaching commercial success with ''What Will Happen to Us'' (2004). He is known for his ''Manual of Love'' romantic comedy trilogy: ''Manual of Love'' (2005), ''Manual of Love 2'' (2007) and ''The Ages of Love'' (2011). His partner is actress Valeria Solarino, whom Veronesi directed in ''What Will Happen to Us''. Filmography Film director *''Maramao'' (1987) *''For Love, Only for Love'' (1993) *''Silenzio... si nasce'' (1996) *''The Barber of Rio'' (1996) *''Viola Kisses Everybody'' (1998) *''Gunslinger's Revenge'' (1998) *''Witches to the North'' (2001) *''What Will Happen to Us'' (2004) *''Manual of Love'' (2005) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuale D'amore
''Manual of Love'' () is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, ''Manuale d'amore 2 – Capitoli successivi'' in 2007, and '' Manuale d'amore 3'' in 2011. Plot Each of the four episodes follows a different couple, focusing on a particular stage of a typical love relationship: *Innamoramento (''falling in love''): Giulia and Tommaso (Jasmine Trinca and Silvio Muccino) meet by chance. He falls in love on the spot; although initially Giulia doesn't return his sentiments, a romantic dinner leads the relationship to bloom and develop into an actual marriage proposal. *Crisi (''crisis''): Barbara and Marco (Margherita Buy and Sergio Rubini) are a couple going through a crisis, close to divorce. She is the stereotypical wife, full of initiative which her husband does not share. He on the other hand gets more and more boring in his routine. *Tradimento (''cheating''): A traffic police woman named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
