SERENADE TO THE WIND

SYNOPSIS

"Let my music be performed!" were the last words of Aldo Finzi, the composer that wasn’t allowed to perform his art because he was Jewish.

In 1937 La Scala Theater in Milan held a contest for a new opera. The winning opera should have been "La Serenata al Vento" (The Serenade to the Wind) composed by Aldo Finzi, a young, but already successful composer.

But Aldo Finzi was Jewish, and racial laws were going to be enacted in a few months, so the contest was nullified and the prize never awarded.

From then on, the composer was forced to work anonymously. With the break out of the World War II, he, along with his family, had to hide to avoid deportation. The years that followed were full of fear and continuous danger, until his sudden death in 1945, just a few months before the end of the war. Aldo Finzi passed away prematurely, and without having seen his opera staged.

However, thanks to his family and friends’ efforts, his music has been performed and recorded during the past few decades. But there was one last composition that nobody has ever heard: “La Serenata al Vento”, the unlucky opera, had to wait 75 years to be finally brought to life. An international coproduction between Italy and Israel made it possible and finally in December 2012 the Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo hosted the world premiere of “La Serenata al Vento”.

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SERENADE TO THE WIND

MUSIC FROM THE FILM