Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Leave it to the Italians to produce some of the kitschiest yet, dare I say it, classiest pop music ...

WHEN ROSARIO FIORELLO, an Italian comedian known for his mocking impersonations, parodied Franco Battiato, people mistook his song for the real thing. The send-up of Italian pop music’s eccentric ...

Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted. By Gaia Pianigiani Franco Battiato, one of ...

Friday, September 5th, 9:00 PM, at the Church of St. Paul in Sorrento, an exceptional inauguration of the XVIII 'Sorrento Classica Festival 2025' will take place, with a tribute to the famous Italian ...

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With his operatic performance-cum-radio play Miscontinuum released as an album earlier this year, the Mouse On Mars man takes Nick Hutchings on a trawl of his favourite avant-garde and experimental ...