La Luna, brings together a personal selection of art songs from Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini under the main theme of the moon as the title clearly suggests. However, not all the songs narrate events connected with the moon which would weary the theme and the argument, so to speak. The main interest in the selection of these songs was somehow impressionist in choosing particular poems, rhythms or melodies that have a strong feeling for emotion and for that curious sensation of lifting one’s heart, typical of the best works of art. This wish to lift a man’s heart, as Faulkner so wisely described, is totally personal and selfish. It’s like saying no to death and then contaminating those who, unaware, fall under its spell, thrilled and excited as they are. Lovers of opera and Italian music, the “aficionados” of emotions and exquisite passions will find in these record many themes, images and musical forms that concurrently speak of the effects of love, shepherds and nymphs, quiet sees and rising storms, butterflies and secret desires, that from the sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century characterizes pastoral poetry. The lyrical and romantic poetry of Metastasio, Rossini’s favourite poet and play writer is of course part of the compositions. Popular rhythms and dances recur with frequency (la tarantella, Spanish pulsation, Neapolitan beats) as well as Neapolitan and Venetian dialect forms (Me voglio fa’ na casa, La regata veneziana) that confer a special theatrical drive to the songs.