Interviews Archivi - Andrea Angelini

The Sky Above Mantua: Memories of the Birth of the ‘Vespro della Beata Vergine’

Andrea Angelini 2 September 2026

I met Claudio Monteverdi many years before he began working on the music he would publish in 1610. I was from Rimini and, like many musicians of our time, I spent…

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A Voice Mistaken: Domenico Mancini and the Echo of the Castrati

Andrea Angelini 26 July 2025

The figure of Domenico Mancini represents a valuable and particularly significant testimony for understanding the sometimes subtle boundary between the voice of a falsettist and that of a castrato singer. Mancini,…

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Colin Mawby and his World

Andrea Angelini 7 January 2021

One year ago the British composer and director Colin Mawby died at the age of 83...This is the interview that I did with him some years before the sad event. Colin…

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Romuald Twardowski: When the new and the old become original

Andrea Angelini 12 May 2020

Romuald Twardowski was born in Vilnius in 1930. During years of occupation he studied the violin, after the war piano and organ. Between 1946-1950 he was an organist in various Vilnius…

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The True History of the Vespers of the Blessed Virgin by Alessandro Grandi

Andrea Angelini 4 May 2020

It was May 2nd, 1630, early morning, when the telephone rang in my country house on the first hills of Rimini. That annoying sound took me unprepared ... Who could have…

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Tõnu Kaljuste at the mirror

Andrea Angelini 26 December 2016

I met Tõnu Kaljuste in one of the best pizzerias in Rimini, where we had dinner together after spending a long, hard day at the Cesena Conservatory of Music, where, from…

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Interview with Ēriks Esenvalds

Andrea Angelini 9 October 2016

AA: When did your career as a composer start? And later, in the course of your studies, did you realize that music was the path you would follow? EE: I was…