CINEMA
ITALIANO
FEATURING
SOPRANO
Diana DiMarzio
Experience the beauty and drama of the Italian cinema. Cinema Italiano can be customized for your venue, festival, orchestra or symphony pops concert.
Cinema Italiano
Salutes the many contributions Italian film composers have made to the film industry. This vocal concert treats music lovers to an evening of nostalgia, fun, and romance as they listen to some of the screen sagas’ best remembered songs from composers such as Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini and more. These composers drew upon Italian musical traditions to add a sense of familial and cultural depth to these great Italian films. They tugged at our heartstrings and celebrated Italy’s unique sounds and spirit.
This celebratory concert provides listeners, regardless of their background, with a deeper appreciation for the positive significant contributions made by Italians to our civilization, especially in the arts.
Cinema Italiano Program
ACT I
Cinema Italiano
Maury Yeston, Nine
Be Italian
Maury Yeston, Nine
Life is Beautiful/Buon Giorno Principessa
Nicola Piovani, Life is Beautiful
You’re Still You
Ennio Morricone, Malena
Don’t Take Your Love from Me
Henry Nemo, (heard in) Big Night
La Strada
Nino Rota, La Strada
Godfather Waltz/Parla Piu Piano
Nino Rota, Godfather I
Love Said Goodbye
Nino Rota, Godfather II
Donde Lieta (from La Boheme)
Puccini, (heard in) Moonstruck
Mambo Italiano/ Tic Ti, Tic Ta
(heard in) Big Night
ACT II
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Cinema Paradiso (Piano/instrumental solo)
Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso
Spaghetti Western Medley
Ennio Morricone, Good, Bad, and the Ugly/Fistful of
Dynamite/Once Upon a Time in the West
More
Riz Ortolani, Le Mondo Cane
Nella Fantasia
Ennio Morricone, The Mission
Cinema Paradiso
Ennio Morricone, Cinema Paradiso
It Had Better Be Tonight/Pink Panther
Henry Mancini, Pink Panther (Dubbed in Italian)
Mai
Nino Oliviero, La Donna Nel Mondo
II Postino
Luis Bacalov, II Postino
Con Te Partiro
(Not yet heard in a movie)
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Ennio Morricone's haunting theme to
Cinema Paradiso
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Perennial favorite, Bob Merrill's
Mambo Italiano
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From The Mission; Ennio Morricone's
Nella Fantasia
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From The Pink Panther; Henry Mancini's
It Had Better Be Tonight