For the series ITALIAN LITERATURE AND MUSIC: CONNECTIONS, INTERLACES, VISIONS, the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa invites you to the second (out of six), free-of-charge, online lecture by Prof. Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca. In order to receive the link to the Zoom meeting, it is necessary to send an email to iichaifa@esteri.it. The link will be valid for all six meetings. Event held in Italian.
Music dominates Montale’s life. The explicit allusions present in all of his collections, starting with Ossi di seppia. Music as a source of inspiration, formal and informal (his continuous references to Debussy and Beethoven). His boundless and competent love for the opera (he always defined himself as a “mediocre poet, not exceptional music critic, but above all, failed baritone”). His singing and music studies. His musical chronicles.
- FREE admission. In order to receive the link to the Zoom meeting, it is necessary to send an email to iichaifa@esteri.it. The link will be valid for all six meetings.
Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca studied music and musicology in Rome, with Pierluigi Petrobelli (director of the Institute of Verdian Studies, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of Italian opera), and completed his doctoral studies at Princeton and Jerusalem. He was a professor of music history at the Hebrew University for several years, editor-in-chief at the Deutsche Grammophon in Hamburg, director of the National Music Library and the National Sound Archives in Jerusalem, as well as director and host of music programs for Radio3 Rai.
Online event held in Italian.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, at 18:00
In order to receive the link to the Zoom meeting, it is necessary to send an email to iichaifa@esteri.it. The link will be valid for all six meetings.