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Tonina Torrielli
Antonietta "Tonina" Torrielli (born 22 March 1934) is an Italian singer. She is best known for representing in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956 with the song "Amami se vuoi". Career A worker at a candy factory in Novi Ligure (after which she would later be dubbed ''La Caramellaia di Novi Ligure'', "The Confectioner from Novi Ligure"), she participated in a RAI contest for new voices in 1955, being selected to compete at the Sanremo Music Festival 1956. Her performance of the song "Amami se vuoi" earned her the second place, behind Franca Raimondi with "Aprite le finestre". Both singers were selected to represent at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest 1956, first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest; it is unknown what position the songs finished, since the vote was secret and only the winning song was announced. During her brief career, she took part in the Sanremo Music Festival a total of eight times, namely in 1956, Sanremo Music Festival 1957, 1957, Sanremo Music Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serravalle Scrivia
Serravalle Scrivia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria. Serravalle Scrivia borders the following municipalities: Arquata Scrivia, Cassano Spinola, Gavi, Novi Ligure, Stazzano, and Vignole Borbera. History The settlement was probably founded by the inhabitants of the Roman city of Libarna after the destruction of that city in 452 AD. From 1122 Serravalle Scrivia belonged to the bishops of Tortona, until they ceded it to the commune of Tortona, in exchange for the defence of their lands. Later it was an imperial fief, belonging to the Spinola (1313), the Visconti (1381), the Adorno (1391), and the Spinola again from 1482. In 1580 it became part of the Spanish-held Duchy of Milan; after the War of the Spanish Succession, in 1713, it became part of the Austrian Empire. In 1738, together with the Tortona area, the settlement was acquired by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 1958
The Sanremo Music Festival 1958 (), officially the 8th Italian Song Festival (), was the eight annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 30 January and 1 February 1958, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by actor Gianni Agus, assisted by television announcer Fulvia Colombo. According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups, with some artists performing multiple songs. The winner of the festival was " Nel blu, dipinto di blu", performed by Domenico Modugno (who was also the composer of the song) and Johnny Dorelli. Modugno went on to perform the song for at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958. Participants and results Broadcasts Local broadcast All shows were broadcast on Italian Television and Secondo Programma, beginning at 22:00 CET. International broadcasts Known details on the broadcasts of the final in each country, including the specific broad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po (river), River Po, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded by the western Alpine arch and Superga hill. The population of the city proper is 856,745 as of 2025, while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 1.7 million inhabitants. The Turin metropolitan area is estimated by the OECD to have a population of 2.2 million. The city was historically a major European political centre. From 1563, it was the capital of the Duchy of Savoy, then of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861), Kingdom of Sardinia ruled by the House of Savoy, and the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Turin is sometimes called "the cradle of Italian liberty" for having been the politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piazza Castello
Piazza Castello is a prominent city square in Turin, Italy. It houses several city landmarks, museums, theaters and cafes. Description The square is rectangular in shape and houses at its center the architectural complex of Palazzo Madama, while the perimeter is made up of elegant porticoes and facades of several city buildings. These are the Royal Armory (to the north ), the Teatro Regio (to the east), two stately buildings on the sides of Via Garibaldi, one of which houses the headquarters of the Piedmont Region (to the west), the Royal Church of San Lorenzo (to the north-west), the Subapline Gallery (to southeast), and the Torre Littoria (southwest). In the northwest the main square joins the smaller Piazzetta Reale, which houses Palazzo Chiablese, the Royal Palace of Turin, and pedestrian passage towards San Giovanni square and the (Turin Cathedral). The square is located 239 meters above sea level. Gallery File:Torino Piazza Castello 19.jpg, View towards Via Roma w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinico Angelini
Angelo Cinico, best known as Cinico Angelini (12 November 1901 – 7 July 1983), was an Italian conductor, arranger and violinist. Life and career After his studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, Angelini started his career as jazz violinist in various ensembles. Gianfranco Baldazzi. "Angelini, Cinico". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 37-40. In 1925 he moved to Venezuela, where he stayed 5 years and made a name for himself as a conductor. Returned in Italy in 1930, he got a contract with the major dance hall of the time, Sala Gay in Turin, and he became so famous as to be employed as conductor of the EIAR orchestra and to be often asked to perform for Prince Umberto II. Angelini Orchestra In the 1940s and 1950s he launched with his orchestra the career of several singers, including Nilla Pizzi, Achille Togliani, Gino Latilla, Gianni Ravera and Oscar Carboni. During these years the press put ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Stampa
(English: "The Press") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Turin with an average circulation of 87,143 copies in May 2023. Distributed in Italy and other European nations, it is one of the oldest newspapers in Italy. Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization process, and were not real national daily newspapers, as their geographical area of circulation was mostly limited to Piedmont for and Lombardy for ; thus, both papers shared a readership that was linked to its place of residence and its social class, mostly from the industrialist class and financial circles. has "historically" been Turin's newspaper of record. It is considered one of Italy's leading national newspapers alongside , , , and . History and profile The paper was founded by Vittorio Bersezio, a journalist and novelist, in February 1867, with the name ''Gazzetta Piemontese''. In 1895, the newspaper was bought and by then edited by Alfredo Frassati (father of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Pop
Traditional pop (also known as vocal pop or pre-rock and roll pop) is Western culture, Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The most popular and enduring songs from this era of music are known as pop standards or American standards. The works of these songwriters and composers are usually considered part of the canon known as the "Great American Songbook". More generally, the term "Standard (music), standard" can be applied to any popular song that has become very widely known within mainstream culture and recorded by many artists. AllMusic defines traditional pop as "post-big band and pre-rock & roll pop music". Origins Classic pop includes the song output of the Broadway theatre, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantagiro
Cantagiro was an Italian summer song contest held from 1962 to 1972 and 1990 to 1993. It featured three categories, A for famous artists, B for newcomers and C for groups. The creator of the competition was Ezio Radaelli. The name of the festival was a reference to the bicycle race Giro d'Italia, and, as the Giro, Cantagiro was organized as a stage race consisting of eleven or twelve daily stages, each set in a different city. A peculiar characteristic of the festival was that, while traveling between one stage and the other, singers were required to travel in an open car, to be at the disposal of the crowd of fans, otherwise risking fines or disqualification from the competition; accordingly the travel usually resolved into a huge crowd, with fans waiting their idols in every corner of the path. The festival was the main subject of two musicarello The ''musicarello'' (; : ''musicarelli'') is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canzonissima
(; ) was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1975, aired on Saturday evenings except for the last two editions, which were aired on Sunday afternoon. The program has been referred to as "the synthesis and paradigm of Italian television variety". During its last six editions (1969–1974), the show constituted the national selection for the artist that would represent in the Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 1956. Each participating broadcaster ... the following year. History Originating in radio as a song tournament in 1956, with the title ("The songs of fortune"), it shortly gained great public success. The following year it was brought on television titled ("Voices and faces of fortune") and turned into a competition between amateurs from the var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Musichiere
Il Musichiere was an Italian game show based upon Name That Tune. It ran from 1957 to 1960 and ended with untimely death of its host Mario Riva. It ran for 90 episodes, airing on Saturday evenings during prime-time. It was directed by Antonello Falqui. It had a one-hour format, generally with the same form as the US show of naming tunes to win money but with a weekly guest star who was required to sing. The orchestra was led by Gorni Kramer who sang the theme tune to the programme, "Domenica è sempre domenica" (Sunday is always Sunday). Riva's assistant on the show was Marilù Tolo who later rose to fame in her own right. Regular singers included and Johnny Dorelli.1001 TV Series You Must Watch Before You Die, Paul Conron, Famous guests included: Mina (Italian singer), Mina, Lorella De Luca, Totò, Marcello Mastroianni, Fausto Coppi, Dalida, Adriano Celentano and Gino Bartali. International guests included Gary Cooper (in his first televised appearance in Europe), Jayne Mansfie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 1963
The Sanremo Music Festival 1963 (), officially the 13th Italian Song Festival (), was the 13th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 7 and 9 February 1963, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Mike Bongiorno, assisted by Edy Campagnoli, Maria Giovannini, Rossana Armani and Giuliana Copreni. Gianni Ravera served as artistic director. The recordings of the final was also broadcast in Germany's Deutsches Fernsehen on 26 February, and in the Netherlands on NTS, on 11 February (with commentary by Willem Duys). According to the rules of this edition every song was performed in a double performance by a couple of singers or groups. The winners of the festival were Tony Renis and Emilio Pericoli with the song " Uno per tutte". Pericoli went on to perform the song for at the Eurovision Song Contest 1963. Participants and results References {{Sanremo Music Festival 1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
