One week before the RomeFilmFest kicks off, over twenty thousand tickets have already been sold. The second edition opens with the first film in competition, Le Deuxième souffle by Alain Corneau, and this year as last, an important concert of classical music entirely devoted to cinema is set to inaugurate the event. At the Teatro Sistina, on Thursday, October 18th, at 8:30pm,  maestroLu Jia will conduct the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. At the piano Lang Lang, twenty-five years old, the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and all the leading American orchestras. The tenor is Andrea Bocelli, one of the most superb voices in opera today.

For the awards ceremony and closing event of the second edition of the RomeFilmFest, the music of master composer Ennio Morricone, which has made film history, will be performed on October 27th, at 11:30am, in the Sala Santa Cecilia at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. At the end of the concert, the Marcus Aurelius Award for best film, the Special Jury Prize, and the Awards for Best Actor and Best Actress will be presented. Morricone, who received an Honorary Oscar just a few months ago, will be conducting the orchestra and the chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia himself. On the program several of his celebrated scores for films such as Mission, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons. Morricone will also perform his recent score entitled Sicilo e altri frammenti, inspired by the famous epitaph by Sicilus, considered one of the very first musical notations in the history of mankind.

The Program of the Inaugural Concert features:
Rossini, La gazza ladra: symphony / A Clockwork Orange (1971) by Stanley Kubrick
Verdi, Rigoletto: ‘La donna è mobile’ / Analyze This (1999) by Harold Ramis
Puccini, Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo / Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) by Woody Allen
Puccini, Tosca: ‘E lucean le stelle’ / Redacted (2007) by Brian De Palma orHeavenly Creatures (1994) by Peter Jackson
Verdi, La forza del destino: symphony / And the Ship Sails On (1983) by Federico Fellini
Verdi, Il trovatore: ‘Di quella pira’ / Senso (1954) by Luchino Visconti
Rachmaninoff, Piano Concert No. 2: Allegro Scherzando / Brief Encounter (1945) by David Lean
Ravel, Bolero / 10 (1979) by Blake Edwards

Tickets for the Ennio Morricone concert
Tickets go on sale starting October 10th, for the price of 10 euros, at the Ticket Office at the Auditorium Parco della Musica as well as authorized ticket outlets and a number of Lottomatica lottery offices.

Thursday, October 18^th, 2007, at 8:30pm, at the Teatro Sistina
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Lu Jia conducting; Lang Lang, piano; Andrea Bocelli, tenor

Saturday, October 27th, 2007, at 11:30am, Sala Santa Cecilia
Auditorium Parco della Musica
Maestro Ennio Morricone conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionaledi Santa Cecilia