* 1970 – winner, Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actor ( Dramma della gelosia – tutti i particolari in cronaca )

Officially titled Festival della Canzone Italiana ( English: Italian song festival ), the first edition of the show was held at the Sanremo Casinò on 29, 30 and 31 January 1951.

In 1957 his song " Lazzarella ," sung by Aurelio Fierro, came second in the Festival della Canzone Napoletana, bringing him his first taste of popularity.

In 1958 Modugno took part in Antonio Aniante's comedy La Rosa di Zolfo at the Festival della Prosa in Venice.

* Festival of San Sabino, Madonna della Fonte and St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ( August 1, 2 )

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The date of his victory became that of the Festa della Sensa, the Ascension Festival, the oldest festival in Venice.

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He followed this work up with the silent film I ragazzi della Via Paal ( an adaptation of the novel The Paul Street Boys ), which was an award-winner in the Venice Film Festival.

The next year, when Mina took part in the Festival della canzone italiana in Sanremo with two songs, she turned to slow emotional love songs for the first time.

In addition to the amateur productions that are presented and compete at the Festival each year, there are weekend professional performances given by companies such as the Carl Rosa Opera Company, Opera della Luna, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Charles Court Opera and the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, which has starred such well-known G & S performers as Richard Suart, Simon Butteriss, Bruce Graham, Gillian Knight, Barry Clark, Michael Rayner, Patricia Leonard, Donald Maxwell, Jill Pert, Gareth Jones, Charlotte Page, Oliver White, Rebecca Bottone, Ian Belsey and the Opera Babes.

* Giuliano Pisani, Il miracolo della Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto, in Modernitas – Festival della modernità ( Milano 22-25 giugno 2006 ), Spirali, Milano 2006, pp. 329 – 57.

Nevertheless, a narrator is used in some modern productions of the opera, such as the September 2004 production at the Teatro Dal Verme with Leo Nucci as the narrator, and the August 1994 production at the Festival della Valle d ' Itria in Martina Franca with Massimo Foschi as narrator.

A sagra is often dedicated to some specific local food, and the name of the sagra includes that food ; the array of gastronomic specialties covered across Italy is amazing: for example, we find a Festival delle Sagre astigiane, a Sagra della Rana ( frog ) at Casteldilago near Arrone, a Sagra della Cipolla ( onion ) at Cannara, a Sagra della Melanzana ripiena ( stuffed eggplant ) at Savona, a Sagra della Polenta at Perticara di Novafeltria, and so on.

Bertè has had numerous notable performances at the Sanremo Music Festival, also known as the Festival della canzone italiana.

During the Festival delle Ville Tuscolane, Rome he sang with Franco Battiato in " Le Icone della Musica " music event.

In 1997, Ferro participated in the " Accademia della Canzone di Sanremo ", a music contest created with the purpose to choose the contestants of the Sanremo Music Festival, but was eliminated during the first stage of the competition.

* 1997 Telegatto-Best Music Program, for hosting " Festival della canzone italiana "

Her recent performances include roles of La Cieca in La Gioconda, Bertarido in Handel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's Tancredi, the title role in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Isabella in Rossini's L ' italiana in Algeri, Erda in Wagner's Ring Cycle ( at the Seattle Opera ), Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's Elektra ( with the Canadian Opera Company ), Madame de la Haltière in Massenet's Cendrillon ( at London's Royal Opera House ), and the title role in Rossini's Ciro in Babilonia ( in the work's US premiere at the Caramoor International Music Festival in July 2012 and at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy, in August 2012, where she scored a triumph ).

In November 2009 at the Teatro Salieri in Legnago occurred the first staging in modern times of his opera Il mondo alla rovescia, a co-production between the Fondazione Culturale Antonio Salieri and the Fondazione Arena di Verona for the Salieri Opera Festival.

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

* Venice International Film Festival history at La Biennale di Venezia website

Sullivan's most successful orchestral work, the Overture di Ballo, was composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1870.

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" Ogni volta " (" Every Time ") was sung by Anka during the Festival di San Remo of 1964 and then sold more than one million copies in Italy alone ; it was also awarded a gold disc.

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The latter cast also won a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival ( Halle Berry won Best Actress at Berlin in 2002 ).. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival ( in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat ), at the Moscow International Film Festival ( in 1991 for Madame Bovary ), at the Deutscher Filmpreis ( in 1991 for Malina ) and twice at the David di Donatello ( in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher ).

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Featured participants included Nuria Schoenberg ( daughter of Arnold Schoenberg and widow of Luigi Nono ), musicologist James Harrison, the opera conductor Roberto Abbado, violinist Ivry Gitlis, composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Lorenzo Ferrero, and Andrea Liberovici, poet Edoardo Sanguineti, popular singer-songwriters Teresa De Sio, Gianna Nannini, and Gino Paoli, rock and jazz artists Peppe Servalo and Peppe D ' Argenzio of the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel, and administrators Anna Cammarano ( director of classical music at RAI Trade ), Gennaro di Benedetto ( superintendent of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ), and Joseph Hussek ( director of the artistic programme at the Salzburg Festival ).

In 1965, Connie Francis participated in that year's edition of the annual San Remo Festival, where she and her team partner Gigliola Cinquetti presented " Ho bisgono di vederti ", which finished on # 5 of the final ranking.

She performed at international festivals, including Wango Tango, Festivalbar, and Festival di Sanremo in Italy, her first performance ALMA awards.

At the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award for Detenuto in attesa di giudizio.

As winner of the Rome Festival in Italy, she performed the role of Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro.

Usually referred to as Festival di Sanremo, or outside Italy as Sanremo Music Festival, it was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

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* ( 1953 ) Festival of the Gnomes ( composed by Prince di Candriano )

In 1954, Ludwig made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, and appeared there regularly until 1981.

In February 2012, she was a guest at the Sanremo Music Festival.

In 1997, Martin was invited to the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in Sanremo, Italy.

But it was in 1985 that he became an international superstar, when his song " Amante bandido " rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain, while he started to decline in Italy ( where he had a parallel career, singing in both Italian and English-he would go back to the top there in 1994, by winning Festivalbar ( the second musical event after the Sanremo Music Festival ) for the third time ).

* January 29 – Nilla Pizzi wins the first annual Sanremo Music Festival with " Grazie dei fiori ".

In February 1968, Gentry took part in the Italian Song Festival in Sanremo, as one of two performers ( alongside Al Bano ) of the song " La siepe " by Vito Pallavicini and Massara.

The band began touring around Europe, and in January 1969 they recorded a single in Italian for the Sanremo Festival, in which they did not participate.

The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, held between 29 and 31 January 1951, was broadcast by RAI's radio station Rete Rossa and its only two participants were Nilla Pizzi and Achille Togliani, supported by Duo Fasano.

From 1951 to 1976, the Festival took place in the Sanremo Casinò, but starting from 1977, all the following editions were held in the Teatro Ariston, except 1990's one, held at the Nuovo Mercato dei Fiori.

The Sanremo Casinò hosted the Sanremo Music Festival between 1951 and 1976.

In 1964, Gianni Ravera, who organized the 14th Sanremo Music Festival, slightly changed the rules of the contest, requiring each song to be performed once by an Italian artist, and once by an international singer, which was allowed to perform the song in any language.

The Teatro Ariston hosts the Sanremo Music Festival since 1977.

The competing artists were split for the first time into " Big artists " and " Young artists " during the Sanremo Music Festival 1974.

Domenico Modugno won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1966.

In 1971, he traveled to Italy to participate in the Sanremo Music Festival, singing the song " Che sarà " in Italian, earning second place in that contest as well as a standing ovation by the Italian public.