Roberto Cacciapaglia

The Teatro Ristori in Verona will host on 28 March 2025, seven years after his last concert in the city, the famous Milanese pianist and composer Roberto Cacciapaglia.

Class of 1953, Cacciapaglia graduated in Composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan under the guidance of Bruno Bettinelli, where he also devotes a lot of time to the study of conducting and electronic music. During the first years of his career, he worked at RAI's Phonology Studio and collaborated with the CNR of Pisa, studying the applications of the computer in the field of music, a context in which he belongs, among other things, his 1972 collaboration with Franco Battiato in the tour of the album Pollution. In the Eighties he also collaborated with Giuni Russo, arranging the entire album Vox and signing the song "Le grandi culpe" for the music, on lyrics by his wife Giada di Villahermosa.

On 22 April 2017 he opened the concert in Piazza del Popolo in Rome for the Earth Day 2017, the world day for the protection of the planet.