Costumes Francesco

Featuring large-format photographs of skaters in Venice Beach and Manhattan Beach, Palm Angels is the definitive book on the L.A. skateboarding scene, capturing the style and street culture of the world's most elite communities of skaters. Photographed by Francesco Ragazzi, the Italian art director of Moncler, Palm Angels features a special focus on the look and fashions of skate culture. While it emphasizes dramatic movement through stunning images taken in various Los Angeles neighborhoods, it... [Read More]

«Seguiremo la strada della verità ovunque possa portarci», promette Francesco. È un combattente solitario. Sa che i nemici lo aspettano al varco, pronti ad attizzare il fuoco dell'opinione pubblica. Un viaggio negli ultimi anni del pontificato, i più difficili e tormentati, in un mondo divenuto improvvisamente ostile.Nel cattolicesimo è in corso una guerra sotterranea per mettere Francesco, il pontefice riformatore, con le spalle al muro. Preti, blogger e cardinali conducono un'opera siste... [Read More]

The opera La campana sommersa (The Sunken Bell) is Respighis operatic masterpiece. A symbolist drama on a supernatural theme, it is steeped in beauty, mystery and foreboding, and orchestrated with the Romantic opulence familiar from his sumptuous trilogy of Roman tone poems. Its triumph at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1928 was repeated at La Scala, Milan, and this most recent production at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, world-renowned for its staging of rarities, was hailed for its brillia... [Read More]

Dreadlocks are a modern phenomenon with roots reaching as far back as the fifth century. According to ancient Hindu beliefs, dreads signified a singleminded pursuit of the spiritual. Devotion to God displaced vanity, and hair was left to its own devices.Dreads captures this organic explosion of hair in all its beautiful, subversive glory. One hundred duotone portraits present dread-heads from around the world, in all walks of life. Interviewed on location by the photographers, jatta-wearers wax... [Read More]

From the Pesaro Rossini Festival. Starring Maria Bayo, Daniella Barcellona & Francesco Meli. Duration: 183 minutes.

Dante’s Garden is the story of what happens when Frank Farnese, a book collector from 2017, falls through Hell's Mouth, a strange sculpture in Bomarzo, Italy.In 1570, Lucrezia Romano and famed antiquarian Pyrrho Ligorio welcome him when he awakens in a garden, from what he thinks is a dream but isn’t. Together they must figure out how to put the world right again. The Inquisition, an extraordinary visit to Venice, and the dreams of Duke Francesco Orsini entwine to pull them all deeper into a... [Read More]

Roberto Devereux (1837) saw the light of day during a period of intense creativity for Donizetti. After its premiere and up until 1848, Devereux was performed almost uninterruptedly. In the years that followed it would also enjoy a successful international career, throughout Europe and in the Americas, with versions in French, German, Russian, and Hungarian. When Donizetti moved to Paris in 1838, he enriched the opera with the overture that paraphrases the British anthem God Save The Queen. The ... [Read More]