Rota: Il Cappello Di Paglia Di Firenze

Nino Rota: "How I’d like to be remembered...with a bit of nostalgia, lots of optimism, and good humor." Rota’s wish should well come true. Not the least, if we lend our ears to his third (of ten) and most popular opera, the snappy Florentine Straw Hat (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze), which Rota wrote in Bari, after the War ended, and orchestrated a decade later for its premiere in Palermo. (Capriccio)