# "Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from 'The Godfather')" (Larry Kusik, Nino Rota) – 3:05
She has appeared in major roles at the Zurich Opera and sang the role of La Modista in the New York premiere of Nino Rota's The Straw Hat.
Frati has recorded with various labels, most notably: Antonio Vivaldi and A. M. Giuliani's Concerto for Mandolin (Erato); Johann Hummel's Opera Omnia for Mandolin and Neapolitan Concertos for Mandolin (Dynamic); G. G. Boni’s Sonatas for Mandola (Tactus); with the Philharmonic of La Scala she recorded the soundtrack of a movie by Nino Rota (Sony) and Otello (EMI); with the Pavarotti International recorded for Decca; also recorded for Stradivarius, Agorà and Ducale.
With the very successful Nino Rota/Fellini album (Deux Z/Harmonia Mundi, 1995), acclaimed arrangement and composition work done around Nino Rota's film music, he explored a more European and typically Mediterranean idiom, while keeping a lot of improvisation.
This was the most productive longplayer released by the band yet as it contained 17 tracks, three of which were covers: "The Godfather", written by Nino Rota for the film of the same name; "Surfin' Hearse" had originally been a Jan & Dean song, which had been included on their 1963 album Drag City; "In The Sun" was a Blondie song.
In 2006, they released What's Left For Kicks?, an album of cover songs from artists such as Neu!, The Kinks, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nino Rota, Wire, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Steve Hillage, and Roy Harper, many of which had previously featured in the band's live set.
Gus Van Sant used some of Rota's music in his 2007 film Paranoid Park and director Michael Winterbottom used several Rota selections in the 2005 film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
At first this would be any music of the genre that Bates could find, but after he played Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet this became the official music of Our Tune.
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Many of these stories, which are read out over Nino Rota's Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet have a tragic narrative such as illness or death, although not all end on such an unhappy note.
Over Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, Bates read a sentimental story sent by a listener, ending with a record chosen by the correspondent.
El Niño | Nino Rota | Rota | Nino Manfredi | Rota (island) | Gian-Carlo Rota | Roman Rota | Nino Frassica | El Niño (Def Squad album) | Carlo Rota | Rota White-eye | Róta | Nino Ricci | Nino Del Pesco | Nino Cocchiarella | Nino Cerruti | Nino Borsari | Nino Bixio | Juan Niño de Tabora | El Niño (oratorio) | Ali and Nino | Uncle Nino | Santo Niño de Atocha | Rota International Airport | Rota Fortunae | Rota Club | Pedro Alonso Niño | Nino Taranto | Nino Salukvadze | Nino Rivera |
He took part in revivals of neglected opera such as La donna del lago, opposite Montserrat Caballé, and Le siège de Corinthe, opposite Beverly Sills, and took part in the creation of new works, such as La lampada di Alidino by Rota, and Luisilla by Mannino.
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze (literally translated as The Florentine Straw Hat but usually titled in English language productions as The Italian Straw Hat) is an opera by Nino Rota to an Italian-language libretto by the composer and Ernesta Rota, based on the play Le chapeau de paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche and Marc Michel.
Besides the 18th and 19th century Italian repertoire, he also gained considerable acclaim in character roles such as Fra Melitone, Geronte, Gianni Schicchi, Baron Ochs, the Doctor in Wozzeck, as well as roles in many contemporary works by Rota, Tosatti, etc.
The genre declined after World War II, perhaps with the advent of television, although composers such as Dallapiccola, Pizzetti, Rota, Henze, Zimmermann, Maderna and Rasmussen continued to compose for the radio, as do 21st-century composers such as the Estonian Jüri Reinvere, Amy Kohn in America and Robert Saxton in Britain.