We all love Ennio Morricone, presentation of the book by Luigi Caiola at the Royal Palace of Naples

On October 6th, at 12:18 p.m., in the Sala Cristallo of the Royal Palace of Naples, as part of the Campania Libri Festival, the book "We All Love Ennio Morricone" will be presented. It is published by Lab DFG and features Luigi Caiola, along with journalist and writer Federico Vergari, recounting their XNUMX years as the Maestro's manager. Journalist and writer Paquito Catanzaro will moderate the event, and singer-songwriter Giovanni Block will also participate.

The title of the book is also the title of the tribute CD We all love Ennio Morricone, in which some of his best-known songs are performed by world-famous artists such as Quincy Jones, Céline Dion, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, Metallica, Herbie Hancock, Andrea Bocelli, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma and others.

A book of facts, anecdotes, in which the manager Luigi Caiola, in contact with the musical genius, narrates the stages of the journey, which since 1997 lead Morricone to appear to the general public, becoming a popular icon, a star. The most significant of the 250 concerts, the making of the CD, the Oscar for lifetime achievement won at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles are reviewed.

Luigi Caiola tells from an unusual point of view, the character, the mood, the personality of Morricone, whose figure is sublimated by the concerts of which he is the absolute soul and body together with the orchestras, which he meets in every part of the world.

The book will soon be a musical show, the result of a promise made by the author to a friend who passed away prematurely, the "visionary" Franco Dragone, and a documentary film that will recount its gestation and production.

Referring to his long and fruitful collaboration with the Maestro, Luigi Caiola defines himself as "a little mouse"; but it will be precisely that little mouse, a provincial producer, who will manage to "flush out" the genius and take him around the world, as he had never done before, to conduct his music in the most prestigious theatres, finding a second youth.

On the occasion of the first concert, in London: “Ennio was about to make his entrance on stage, a moment before him the person in charge of placing the scores on the music stand entered the stage and the audience literally exploded, paying homage to a very long standing

ovation to the one they thought was the great Maestro Ennio Morricone himself. In fact, no one had ever seen him before, because up until that moment Ennio had almost never appeared on TV or in concert”.

CAIOLA LUIGI

Between 1997 and 2001 he produced the concert and CD Taranta Power by Eugenio Bennato in Italy and around the world. Between 2001 and 2015 he produced the concert of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone, creating over 250 shows around the world.

In the recording industry, he has released 30 CDs and DVDs, and has received one Platinum Record, two Gold Records, two Grammy Nominations, and one Grammy Award. He spearheaded the petition for Ennio Morricone to receive an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, which he won in 2007. Between 2013 and 2015, as part of the Città della Pieve workshop under the artistic direction of Franco Dragone, he produced the shows "T'Ammore" and "Belcanto," which were successfully performed in New York, Paris, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Naples, and other cities in Italy and Europe. In 2016, he coordinated the marketing and promotional activities of the Napoli Teatro Festival, under the artistic direction of Franco Dragone. In 2018, he produced the show "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," which premiered in Rome, Florence, Orvieto, and Assisi. In 2020, he curated the theatrical staging, under the artistic direction of Franco Dragone, of the worldwide livestream event "Believe in Christmas" with Andrea Bocelli. In 2021, he produced the show "We All Love Ennio Morricone," which premiered in Minturno, Rome, and Naples.