Hamburg – Pianist Rossella Spinosa intepretes Rudolph Valentino’s “The Eagle”

In a first for Hamburg, Italian pianist and composer Rossella Spinosa will accompany live a screening of “The Eagle” (1925), the silent American movie starring Rudolph Valentino She will play live her original score at the Italian Institute of Culture in Hamburg on 12 May at 7 pm. Valentino, Italian born and naturalised as an American citizen, became a star of American silent movies. He started out as a dancer, then became an actor in several films where he often played the role of a charming and refined “Latin lover”.  In Clarence Brown’s “The Eagle”, Valentino played a sort of Russian Robin Hood. 
Rossella Spinosa was a very young graduate from Milan “G.Verdi” Music Conservatory, with diplomas in piano, harpsichord and composition. At the same time she graduated summa cum laude in Law and Musicology. She studied at the prestigious Imola Piano Academy and in Salzburg and London. She then specialised in film scores and won several international music contests and worked with world-renowned composers. She wrote the scores of several films, including the soundtracks of Fritz Lang’s silent movies which also won awards. Rossella Spinosa also collaborated with many celebrities during live performances, wrote features for a number of sector magazines and is in charge of the “Contemporanea” programme of the Amadeusonline magazine. She teaches at the “F. Venezze” Music Conservatory in Rovigo