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‘The Leopard’ Composer Paolo Buonvino on Infusing the Netflix Show’s Score With Sicily: ‘As if You Can Smell It Through the Music’
‘The Leopard’ composer Paolo Buonvino discusses infusing the Netflix show with Sicily: ‘As if you can smell it through the music.'
Italian composer Paolo Buonvino delved deep into the musical heritage of his native Sicily to create the score for Netflix ’s sumptuous “ The Leopard ” series, which has been steadily gaining global fans since dropping in March. Set against the backdrop of social revolution in 1860s Sicily, it was famously adapted into a film by Luchino Visconti starring Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon and Burt Lancaster. Buonvino, who is known for his work with top Italian directors such as Gabriele Muccino, Paolo Virzi and Roberto Faenza, did lots of ethnomusicological research, immersing himself in the musical traditions of his native island.
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