1 st violin
Silviu Dima, Fabio Mirabella, Antonino Alfano, Camillo Baschi, Vito Baschi, Maurizio Billeci, Sergio Di Franco, Francesco Graziano, Marcello Manco, Salvatore Tuzzolino, Ivanana Sparacio, Luciano Saladino

2 nd violin
Marcello Enna, M. Antonietta Romano, Mihai Glavan , Sorin Marinescu, Elena Popescu, Giuseppe Pirrone, Pietro Siragusa, Elena Tamburello, Francesco Colletti, Salvatore Petrotto

Viola
Mihai Spinei, Salvatore Giuliano, Renato Ambrosino, Gaetana Bruschetta, Carlo La Bruna, Roberto Tusa, Roberto De Lisi, Francesca Anfuso

Cello
Salvatore Sanfilippo, Nicolae Timiras, Fabio Patti, Sonia Giacalone, Davide Alfano, Andreea Timiras

Double bass
Ferdinando Caruso, Sergio Li Puma, Francesco Mannarino, Giuseppe D'amico

Piccolo
Debora Rosti

Flute
Francesco Ciancimino, Francesco Sclafani

Oboe
Pietro Modica, Stefania Tedesco

English horn
Daniele Federico

Clarinet
Antonino Allegra, Tindaro Capuano

Bass clarinet
Gaetano Bertucci

Bassoon
Fulvio Basta, Giuseppe Barberi

Contra bassoon
Raimondo Inconis

Horn
Luciano L'abbate, Rino Baglio, Vincenzo Grimaldi, Tommaso Santangelo

Trumpet
F.Paolo La Piana, Antonino Peri, Lorenzo Di Marco

Trombone
Giuseppe Bonanno, Calogero Ottaviano, Salvatore Marinaro, Salvatore Farina

Kettledrum
Sauro Turchi

Percussions
Giuseppe Bellanca, Giovanni Ferraro, Giuseppe Mazzamuto, Andrea Muratore

Harp
Lucia Consoli

Special Guest:
Fabio Tricomi
Jew's harp in song no. 1, mandolin in nos. 2, 4, 6, tambourine in no. 12

Etta Scollo
Vocals and guitar

There is another orchestra on this live CD consisting of:

The wind in the leaves, cars driving by, the singing of bats and crickets, the crying and laughing of children, a car horn, a vending machine, chairs being moved around, voices, sneezing and coughing, sighs, and the audience clapping. We kept and recorded all that for these musical documents, because Rosa Balistreri dedicated her music to fate and adventure, the streets, the people: the music is intertwined with life.

Traditional music and lyrics except:
- A curuna (Otello Profazio Edition Warner/Fonit )
- I pirati a Palermo (Buttitta-Balistreri Edition Warner/Fonit )
- U pumu (G.Belfiore –R.Balistreri Edition Warner/Fonit)
- Rosa canta e cunta (Rosa Balistreri)
- Quannu moru (Rosa Balistreri)
(with the kind permission of Edition Teatro del Sole)
- U cunigghiu (anonymous)

For further information regarding the owners of the song titles currently regarded as anonymous, please contact the producers, as provided for in the normative laws concerning authors' rights.

Orchestra arrangements:
Etta Scollo – songs 1 and 7
Peter Hinderthür – songs 5, 6 and 13
Julian Maas – songs 10 and 12
Jan-Peter Klöpfel – song 4
Christian Kretschmar – song 2
Ferdinand von Seebach – songs 3 and 8 and supervision of the arrangements
The concert recordings were made on July 23, 24 and 25, 2004 in:
Palermo , Courtyard of the Regional Library
Cefalù, Courtyard of the Bishop of the Diocese
Bagheria, Villa Spedalotto

Recorded by:
Oliver Bergner and Peter Schmidt
Technical assistant: Frieder Weiss

Equipment:
Oliver Bergner, Peter Schmidt, Martin Ernst and Janosch John, Jörn Heibutt, Home Studios, Voxklang Studios, A.V.L. Produzioni

Recording and supervision : Oliver Bergner
Editing: Etta Scollo, Ferdinand von Seebach, Oliver Bergner,
Renè Möller in the Teldexs Studios ( Berlin )

5.1 and Stereo mixing and mastering: Ronald Prent at Galaxy Studios (Mol / Belgium )
Technical assistant: Roel Verberk

Produced by: Etta Scollo

Cover photos:
Nik Kanietzkny – with the kind permission of Orbit Records GmbH
Andreas Thran

All photos of Rosa Balistreri used with the kind permission of Angela Balistreri-Torregrossa.

Additional photo material: Andreas Thran and Sonja Weipert - www.bob-design.de , Oliver Bergner, Hasko Witte

Text editing, advice and translated into English by:
cielozero /Teatro del Sole
Additional English translations: Carol Stichel

Translated into German by: Etta Scollo and Ferdinand von Seebach

Graphic design and art work : geboren.thielsch@snafu.de

Etta's stage outfit: Martina Steiner

Love and gratitude to:
Milli and Leoluca Orlando – myfamily, my lifelong friend Peter.

A big hug to all those whose enthusiastic dedication helped to make this project come true:

The „Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana“ and its maestro Angelo Faja, Giuseppe Mistretta, The Sicilian Renaissance Institute, the arrangers Peter Hinderthür, Julian Maas, Jan- Peter Klöpfel, Christian Kretschmar e Ferdinand von Seebach. Pippo Ardini, Angela Balistreri-Torregrossa, the family Buttitta, Francesco Giunta and Maria Elena D'Angelo, Pasquale Marchese, Oliver Bergner, Martina Steiner, Jochen Richert, Ulla Steffan, Walter Welke, Ronald Prent, Ursula Wittich, Margret van den Heuvel for Hill Suite7 Management, Gabriella Zimmer, Hasko Witte, Francesca De Martin, Günter and Dorothèe Kuschmann, Frank Wulff, Hinrich Dageför, Katja Duregger, Andreas Thran, Peter Brand, Volker Heintzen, Daniel Bongard, Studio Teldex, Giovanni Saviano, Patrizia Arnone, Francesco Di Mauro, Gaetano Mazza, Sandra Klenski and Mani Zmarsly, Duygu Keskin.

Contact and Infos:
www. Ettascollo.de
etta@ettascollo.de

Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH
Postfach 530164
22531 Hamburg
Tel.: +49 40 85 41 96-0
info@soulfood-music.de

Booking: Goldrush Productions GmbH Deko@goldrush-productions.de

Edition BlakPete / EMI Music Publishing

For informations about Rosa Balistreri : cielozero@teatrodelsole.it