His score for The White Sheik began his 25-year long collaboration with Federico Fellini, for whom he wrote the scores for La dolce vita and 8 ½.
This composer of the modern-day opera buffa Il capello di paglia di Firenze (The Italian Straw Hat) taught Riccardo Muti as a composition professor at Bari Conservatory, where we later become director. Several of his pieces take themes from his film scores including a piano concerto based on themes from Piccolo mondo antico and a symphonic suite based on La strada. His score for The White Sheik began his 25-year long collaboration with Federico Fellini, for whom he wrote the scores for La dolce vita and 8 ½. And in the 1960's, he wrote the scores for two Shakespeare adaptations by Franco Zeffirelli: The Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet. For 10 points, who is this Italian composer best known for the scores to Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy?
This composer of the modern-day opera buffa Il capello di paglia di Firenze (The Italian Straw Hat) taught Riccardo Muti as a composition professor at Bari Conservatory, where we later become director.
{Nino Rota}