The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.
Direction
Bozzolini captures three decades of archival gold.
Production
Rare footage of Pappano, Gergiev, Temirkanov at their peak.
Director
Angelo Bozzolini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Santa Cecilia Academy, founded 1585, is one of the world's oldest musical institutions—older than the modern violin.
Pappano's appointment in 2005 marked the first time a non-Italian permanently led this quintessentially Roman institution—a tension the film subtly explores without explicitly stating.
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