Indeed a special day and concert for Maestro Ennio Morricone and his touching concert in Rome’s Senate, January 11th, 2020.

Oscar-winner Ennio Morricone played in a prestigious venue on Saturday morning,  Rome’s Senate.  The 92 year-old Italian musician and composer of over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works, became world-famous for his magnificent movie soundtracks of Sergio Leone’s “Spaghetti Westerns” (which also included Clint Eastwood) not to mention other masterpieces such as “Mission” and also Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” (for which Morricone won his second Oscar) played for an hour and was also joined on the podium by his son, composer-director Andrea.  

Representing the Senate was its speaker, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Castellati, who gave Morricone Sr. a special recognition: “To Ennio Morricone.  Italian genius and excellence in the world”. 

Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi hosts a press conference for the Alberto Sordi exhibit, January 20th, 2020.

Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi hosted a press conference in the city’s Musei Capitolini (the world’s oldest museum) and right under the original equestrian statue of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius to present the exhibit on Rome’s most famous son and one of Italy’s greatest actors, Alberto Sordi.

The exhibit, which will also coincide with the 100^th anniversary of Sordi’s birth, will run from March 7^th to June 29^th and will take place in Sordi’s sumptuous villa which is located right in front of Rome’s famous Baths of Caracalla.