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Ottorino Respighi

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Noun1.Ottorino Respighi - Italian composer remembered for his symphonic poems (1879-1936)


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No other explanation readily occurs for Ross's complete omission of Ottorino Respighi, Italy's best composer from the generation after Puccini's, and a figure traduced with boring repetition by modernist apparatchiks as "reactionary.
But for pure enchantment, I doubt if anything in the festival will equal the first offering—Basil Twist’s production of La Bella Dormente nel Bosco (“Sleeping Beauty in the Woods”), an opera for puppets, supported by human voices and orchestra, by the early 20th-century Italian composer Ottorino Respighi.
His grandfather - also a composer of songs and religious works - knew the famous Ottorino Respighi.
 
 
 
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