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The JDIFF is delighted to host a very special event at the National Concert Hall, presenting film scores composed by the legendary Nino Rota, as performed by the DIT Symphony Orchestra and conducted by David Brophy. The programme focuses on Rota’s celebrated collaboration with Federico Fellini, whom he collaborated with for over twenty-five years, in particular his iconic score for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. The programme will also feature selections from Rota’s scores for Fellini’s 8½, Visconti’s The Leopard and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, which won him an Oscar. Don’t miss this truly unique opportunity to revel in the majesty of a true master of movie music.

About Nino Rota: www.ninorota.com

Born in Milan in 1911 into a family of musicians, Nino Rota was an ‘enfant prodige’, famous both as a composer and as an orchestra conductor. His first oratorio, L’infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923. Over the decades until his death in 1979, Rota proved himself an astonishing versatile and prolific composer of operas, ballets and countless works for orchestra, all the while sustaining a busy teaching career.

His work in film dates back to the early forties. His filmography includes the names of virtually all of the noted directors of his time. First among these is Federico Fellini. He wrote all of the movie scores for Fellini’s films from The White Sheik in 1952 to The Orchestra Rehearsal in 1979. Other directors include Renato Castellani, Luchino Visconti, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Monicelli, Francis Ford Coppola, King Vidor, René Clément, Edward Dmytryk and Eduardo de Filippo. In February of 1995, the Nino Rota Foundation was established at Fondazione Cini of Venice, Italy.

NB: In addition to this event, Fellini’s La Dolce Vita screens at The Light House on Saturday, February 20th (see page 40).

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