GREY OWL. A MAN OF THE WILDERNESS. Trailer.

BEATLEMANIA

SYNOPSIS

While we describe the most significant songs of The Beatles, you will learn many anecdotes of the most famous quartet in pop music history: how they formed, how they came to compose their most famous themes, the differences that led to their break ...


Music listening: Selection of nearly two dozen of their most emblematic themes. An essential history of the twentieth century music.

Before going to the theatre it is important that we listen to the songs from the show, and why not learn them?


ROCK & ROLL MUSIC             LOVE ME DO            SHE LOVES YOU
A HARD DAYS NIGHT                    HELP                     TICKET TO RIDE
I FEEL FINE                           YESTERDAY                    MICHELLE
TAXMAN                           YELLOW SUBMARINE           SGT. PEPPERS
LADY MADONNA                       HEY JUDE                    REVOLUTION
LET IT BE                           COME TOGETHER               GET BACK
WITH A LITTLE HELP FOR MY FRIENDS     I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND

These are all the LP covers of The Beatles.

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FARINELLI, IL CASTRATO, 1994

Farinelli, was a famous opera singer in the time of Handel, the famous German composer. Farinelli was a castrato… ; he was castrated by his own brother during childhood in order to preserve his singing voice – it was a popular practice in the 16th century in Western European chapel choirs as the Roman Catholic Church had traditionally banned females from singing in church.

This movie was actually what started my fascination with the mystery and allure of a castrato, this is a wonderful film of breathtaking sights and sounds.

When seeing this film you will have the chance to witness the supreme singing of a castrato (this phenomenon of castrati happened centuries ago and there isn’t any recording available, it is in fact a lost art… as part of the arias sung by a castrati are so complex and difficult that they cannot be performed today... This film uses both male and female voices in a unique reconstruction to recreate the sound of Farinelli’s singing voice.

I was totally swept off my feet by the beautiful singing combined with the romantic baroque settings. This film shall remain forever special in my heart.

This aria, Lascia Ch'io Pianga sung in Farinelli Il Castrato is my personal favourite piece. No matter how many times I listen to it, I just can’t get tired of it. This aria is deliciously painful and sad. Yet... I love every second of it.