🎼16 October 1982.
40 years ago Mario Del Monaco, one of the most representative and popular tenors of the 1950s and 1960s passed away in Venice #Mestre.
Del Monaco was born in #Florence in 1915 and spent most of his lifetime in Venice.
Like #Pavarotti had his signature "aria" in Nessun Dorma, #DelMonaco was unrivaled in E Lucevan Le Stelle👇
An anecdote few know: Donella Del Monaco, the tenor's nephew and opera singer herself, became the #vocalist and lyricist of Opus Avantra, an obscure Italian avant-garde progressive rock band of early 1970s (I post a song in the Chat Room).

#tenor #MarioDelMonaco #16October #Italy #OpusAvantra #VeniceMusic

https://youtu.be/0i2ZCa-0YEI

🎥19 October 1983. Venice in Movie Series.
The Key (Italian: La Chiave), an Italian erotic film directed by Tinto Brass is released. Completely set in Venice, the movie arose big scandal at the time because it contains several explicit shots of nudity and sex scenes involving the well-known actress and protagonist Stefania Sandrelli.
💬 Plot: In the early months of 1940 Venice was under the fascist regime: a voluptuous woman in her forties is unable to respond to her husband but undergoes a belated sexual awakening with her daughter's fiancé, which enables her to please her husband at last.
La Chiave was the film which permantely established #TintoBrass as the erotic director icon in #Italy collective imagery from the 1980s onwards, after that many erotic and scandalous movies by Brass would follow.
Here's the trailer👇, you need to confirm your age on Youtube to be able to watch it 😉 #VeniceMovies #19October

https://youtu.be/L7gqiFIqMcY

Another fantastic edition of the #VeniceMarathon this weekend.

#RunningVenice🤘🏃‍♂🏃‍♀

https://youtu.be/W6Np0qIRV6k

📜22 October 1866. Venice and the entire Veneto region are annexed to Italy (at the time Regno d'Italia, yes we had the king 👑😉).
Venice was under Austria since 1797 (see more #VeniceHistory 👉 here). After the many revolutionary episodes against foreign domination that took place all over the country during the 19th century, the Kingdom of Italy which unified most regions was born in 1861.
In 1866 #Italy declares war to #Austria in an attempt to militarily conquer Venice: despite the defeat or Italian troops, Austria gave Venice to #France which at the time politically supported the new born Kingdom of Italy. Venice was formally given to Italy on October 19, and soon after (21-22 October) a referendum was held for the Veneto population, which ended in a plebiscite with 674,426 votes in favor of the annexion and 69 against.
In the painting above☝️King Vittorio Emanuele II enters Venice with a parade on the #GrandCanal acclaimed by all citizens on 7 November 1866.
#22October

Many of you will remember this imposing statue☝️ here in Venice, in Riva degli Schiavoni, close to St. Mark. It's the Monument to the memory of King Vittorio Emanuele II and the victorious Venice erected in 1887.

🍹Spritz. To be honest there isn't much to remember about the decades of the Austrian domination in Venice: but #spritz (a German term in fact) originated in those years, because Austrian used to drink local wine diluted with sparkling water. The drink evolved and got popular in the following XX century thus becoming the typical Venetian drink with Aperol, Select or Campari... today an appreciated drink everywhere in the world, but in Venice it's always better (and cheaper) 😉

🎼 📜 Maybe the oldest popular song in Venice language, dating back in 1600 😳, re-discovered in the 1960s and adapted to choral chants... here's the first performance ever recorded in the 1970s by the Venetian Coro Marmolada, with the stunning solo voice of Gondolier Giovanni Manzato (aka in Venice as "Nane Barche Rote")... it gives me shivers every time 👏🔝
#CoroMarmolada #VeniceMusic #MusicHistory

https://youtu.be/KkRQTmImSjk

🎼 A more recent (2019) performance of Coro Marmolada at Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice.
The video that accompanies the choir tells what this traditional Venetian song is about: a lonely rower wandering around the Lagoon describes what he saw in his lifetime. ❤️
#CoroMarmolada #VeniceMusic
#VeniceVideo

https://youtu.be/c8EIJbqMKCg

🎥26 October 2009. Venice in Movie Series.
Assassin's Creed: Lineage is released. It is a series of three short films based on the Assassin's Creed II video game, which describes the history of Ezio Auditore and his family. Outdoor scenes are mostly filmed in #Florence and Venice. #VeniceMovies #FlorenceMovies #26October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xkCPNECud8

🎼27 October 1981.
40 years ago Rondò Veneziano released their second and most succesful album: "La Serenissima".
The tunes contained in this album, in particular the titletrack, will remain forever associated with the international imagery of Venice ❤️🔝

Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, mostly composed by female musicians, specialized in Baroque music, playing original instruments 🎻 and incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass and drums.
Most of their music has been composed by founder and leader Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi (arranger and producer for many Italian acts in the 1970s, among them #LeOrme), along with Laura Giordano.

#RondoVeneziano sold millions of copies worldwide and they still today perform wearing Baroque-era attire and coiffeures. Photos and Music in the Chat Room👇
#Serenissima #VeniceMusic #27October

🎥27 October 1999. Venice in Movie Series.
A Secret Affair a 1999 American made-for-television romantic drama is released. The movie is directed by Bobby Roth and stars Janine Turner. Mostly filmed in Venice, it is based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's novel of the same name.
#VeniceMovies #27October

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aixYqCnb1BI