From ‘Spaghetti Western’ Scores to the Opera Stage

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

Ennio Morricone mastered the music of spaghetti Westerns — now he’s making his opera debut

The darkly atmospheric ‘Partenope’ reveals another side to the late composer, best known for his melodious film scores ...
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A look at the best scores by the late, great film composer Ennio Morricone

Last week, the legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone died, leaving behind a remarkably deep catalog of work that spans multiple eras of filmmaking. Like John Williams or Hans Zimmer, he was ...
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Spaghetti Western Movie Composer Ennio Morricone dead at 91

Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic ...

Oscar winner Morricone’s lost opera debuts in Naples after 30 years

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing ...

‘Partenope,’ Ennio Morricone’s long-neglected opera, emerges to enchant Naples

At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing ...
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‘Ennio’ Review: Ennio Morricone, the Maestro of the Movie Soundtrack, Gets the Entrancing Documentary He Deserves

If would be hard to name an artist in any medium who illustrated Flaubert’s famous maxim of creativity (“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original ...