Italian composer Paolo Buonvino delved deep into the musical heritage of his native Sicily to create the score for Netflix’s sumptuous “The Leopard” series, which has been steadily gaining global fans ...

Verdi’s Sicilian Vespers tells the story of the 13th-century uprising of the citizens of Palermo against occupying French forces, culminating in a massacre of the oppressors by the patriots. It still ...

When Verdi's Sicilian Vespers (Les vêpres siciliennes) first appeared in Paris in 1855, he had already gained a huge reputation in Italy with such works as La Traviata and Rigoletto but had yet to ...

Buonvino, who is known for his work with top Italian directors such as Gabriele Muccino, Paolo Virzi and Roberto Faenza, did lots of ethnomusicological research, immersing himself in the musical ...