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Opera & Heritage

Opera & Heritage

Written by: Lirica Podcast
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Welcome to Lirica, the podcast about Italy’s cultural heritage. We’ll tell you about works of art and artists, musical masterpieces and musicians; we’ll visit incredible places and meet characters from every era; they’ll tell us about their lives, and even a bit about our own; because culture is simple when it speaks the language of beauty.

Lirica is a project promoted by Voxfarm and financed by LazioInnova as part of the FESR LAZIO 2014/2020 regional operating programme.

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Episodes
  • Franz Liszt: a musician at Villa d'Este

    Franz Liszt: a musician at Villa d'Este
    Nov 6 2022
    by Martina Santese - What do you know about Franz Liszt? You’ll certainly have heard that he was a famous virtuoso pianist and composer. Perhaps you don't know that during the last years of his life, he spent long periods at Villa d’Este, the beautiful sixteenth-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome. If you’d like to learn more about these mysterious visits, listen to our podcast, written by Martina Santese.

    Project promoted by Voxfarm and financed by LazioInnova.
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    17 mins
  • A world of little souls: Female Characters in Giacomo Puccini's Operas

    A world of little souls: Female Characters in Giacomo Puccini's Operas
    Sep 9 2022
    by Daniela Macchione - We close this first series of podcasts on Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with “Un mondo di piccole anime” [“A world of little souls”], written by musicologist Daniela Macchione, which examines the composer's life through the characters of his wonderful operas. Another chance to find out more about his incredible repertoire, so let's listen.

    Project promoted by Voxfarm and financed by LazioInnova.

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    20 mins
  • Puccini's Tosca: Settings, Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome

    Puccini's Tosca: Settings, Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
    May 23 2022
    by Claudio Strinati - Today, we’re talking about Castel Sant’Angelo, the famous Roman monument that witnesses the sad events of the third and final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera, Tosca. We’ll discover the ancient origins of this place and the incredible ways in which it’s changed over time. Let’s listen to this new podcast by Professor Claudio Strinati.

    Project promoted by Voxfarm and financed by LazioInnova.

    © illustration Gianluigi Toccafondo
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    11 mins
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