Articles by Corrado Veneziano

Apollo, god of beauty and music, in a phrase from Dante's Paradise, a text beloved by Giacomo Puccini.

The Moment Before Composing Edgar | "Lived by Art" by Corrado Veneziano The hues of red and black, hollow, chiaroscuro, harsh. Yet, in the folds

Petals on the ground: elegant, vital, beautiful. Below them roots pressing upward, cleaving the ground, the sidewalk above. A nature

Shades of gold with hints of red. From the bottom upward, the lines become neater and cleaner: ready to create new, happier

The colors of sensuality and at the same time of the purest and most selfless love: feelings converging and sometimes distant. Often confused in a permanent alternation.

The Incipit of the Old Testament and the Bible-a book Puccini "never tired of reading" and recommending to his acquaintances.

The olive tree as a symbol (especially Mediterranean) of peace, rebirth, beauty. The olive tree as a fundamental culinary base: food, tastes, pleasures, towards which Puccini was very sensitive...

The incipit of one of the world's most famous arias, here written and repeated in French, English, Spanish. And then German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean: in

The Antilisca: an imaginary animal, a dangerous but seductive "female bird" that Puccini often conjured up in order to playfully frighten his friends, in his estate