Nino Rota – Il Casanova Di Federico Fellini – OST – 2LP

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The original soundtrack for “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini” (1976) sees Nino Rota putting into music Federico Fellini’s opus on the legendary Venetian icon and tombeur des femmes, Giacomo Casanova.

Winner of an Oscar for Best Costumes in 1977, the film is one of Fellini’s finest, a grotesque and hyperbolic take on the life of Casanova that is matched by Rota‘s compositions. “Il Casanova di Federico Fellini” possibly is one of Rota‘s most eerie and enigmatic scores, as if the Maestro had finally poured into a soundtrack all of his love for esotericism.