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Rai Fiction is an Italian production company founded in 1997. Owned and operated by Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), the national broadcasting company of Italy, the company produces content for Rai's channels, producing animations, sitcoms, and other programmes. Rai Fiction also works in association with foreign production studios and TV channels as well as other production companies in Italy.[1][2]

Productions[edit]

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TV series[edit]

La piovra (1984)

Un posto al sole (1996–present)

Un medico in famiglia (1998–2016)

Inspector Montalbano (1999–2021)

Don Matteo (2000-2020)

Dracula (2002)

Perlasca, un Eroe Italiano (2002)

Un caso di coscienza (2003–2013)

Milo (2003)–with Paz

Provaci ancora prof (2005-2017)

L'ispettore Coliandro (2006–2010)

Capri (2006–2010)

La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo (2006)

Tutti pazzi per amore (2008–2012)

Usahana (2008–present)

Pinocchio (2009)

C'era una volta la città dei matti... (2010)

Che Dio ci aiuti (2011–present)

Cugino & cugino (2011)

Fuoriclasse (2011–2015)

Caccia al Re – La narcotici (2011)

Rossella (2011–2013)

Un passo dal cielo (2011–present)

The Young Montalbano (2012–2015)

Una grande famiglia (2012–2015)

Carlo & Malik (2012)

Braccialetti rossi (2014–2016)

È arrivata la felicità (2015–2018)

Il paradiso delle signore (2015–present)

La dama velata (2015)

Thou Shalt Not Kill (2015–2018)

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2016)

Non dirlo al mio capo (2017)

Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017–2020)

La porta rossa (2017–2023)

Medici (2016–2019)

My Brilliant Friend (2019–present) - Co-production with HBO and TIMvision (season 1)

The Name of the Rose (2019) - Co-production with Tele München Gruppe

Leonardo (2021)

Bangla - La serie (2022)

Rocco Schiavone (2016–)

The Bastards of Pizzofalcone (2017–)Max Richter (/ˈrɪxtər/; German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 22 March 1966) is a German-born British composer and pianist. He works within postminimalist and contemporary classical styles.[1][2][3][4] Richter is classically trained, having graduated in composition from the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied with Luciano Berio in Italy.[5][6]

Richter arranges, performs, and composes music for stage, opera, ballet and screen. He has collaborated with other musicians, as well as with performance, installation and media artists. He has recorded eight solo albums, and his music is widely used in cinema, such as the score of Ari Folman's animated war film Waltz with Bashir (2008).[7][8]

As of December 2019, Richter has passed one billion streams and one million album sales. [9] His record Sleep is the most streamed classical record of all time.[10]

Early life and career[edit]

Richter was born in Hamelin, Lower Saxony, West Germany. He grew up in Bedford, England, United Kingdom, and his education was at Bedford Modern School and Mander College of Further Education.[11] He studied composition and piano at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.[12][13] After finishing his studies, Richter co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus.[14] He stayed with the group for ten years, commissioning and performing works by minimalist musicians such as Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Steve Reich. The ensemble was signed to Decca/Argo, producing five albums.

In 1996, Richter collaborated with Future Sound of London on their album Dead Cities, beginning as a pianist, but ultimately working on several tracks, as well as co-writing one track (titled Max). Richter worked with the band for two years, also contributing to the albums The Isness and The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness. In 2000, Richter worked with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size on the Reprazent album In the Møde. Richter produced Vashti Bunyan's 2005 album Lookaftering[15] and Kelli Ali's 2008 album Rocking Horse.[16][17][11]

Solo work[edit]

Richter's solo albums include:

Memoryhouse (2002)[edit]

Reviewed by Andy Gill as "a landmark work of contemporary classical music",[18] Max Richter's solo debut Memoryhouse, an experimental album of "documentary music" recorded with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, explores real and imaginary stories and histories.[19] Several of the tracks, such as "Sarajevo", "November", "Arbenita", and "Last Days", deal with the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict, while others are of childhood memories (e.g. "Laika's Journey"). The music combines ambient sounds, voices (including that of John Cage), and poetry readings from the work of Marina Tsvetaeva. BBC Music described the album as "a masterpiece in neoclassical composition."[20] Memoryhouse was first played live by Richter at the Barbican Centre on 24 January 2014 to coincide with a vinyl re-release of the album.[21]

Pitchfork gave the re-release an 8.7 rating, commenting on its extensive influence:

In 2002, Richter’s ability to weave subtle electronics against the grand BBC Philharmonic Orchestra helped suggest new possibilities and locate fresh audiences that composers such as Nico Muhly and Michał Jacaszek have since pursued. As you listen to new work by Julianna Barwick or Jóhann Jóhannsson, thank Richter; just as Sigur Rós did with its widescreen rock, Richter showed that crossover wasn't necessarily an artistic curse.[22]

The Blue Notebooks (2004)[edit]

Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best classical works of the century,[23] The Blue Notebooks, released in 2004, featured the actress Tilda Swinton reading from Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and the work of Czesław Miłosz. Richter has stated that The Blue Notebooks is a protest album about the Iraq War, as well as a meditation on his own troubled childhood.[24] Pitchfork described the album as "Not only one of the finest record of the last six months, but one of the most affecting and universal contemporary classical records in recent memory."[25] To mark the 10th anniversary of its release, Richter created a track-by-track commentary for Drowned in Sound, in which he described the album as a series of interconnected dreams and an exploration of the chasm between lived experience and imagination.[26] The second track, "On the Nature of Daylight", is used in both the opening and closing sequences of the sci-fi film Arrival,[27] and the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. It is also used in episode 3 "Long, Long Time" of HBO series The Last of Us.

On the eve of its 2018 re-issue, marking the 15th anniversary of its release, Fact named the album "one of the most iconic pieces of classical and protest music of the 21st century."[28] The re-release included a new cover design and several new tracks that were originally composed for the project. Richter also released another single, "Cypher", which is an 8 minutes classical-electronic track based upon the theme of "On the Nature of Daylight".

Songs from Before (2006)[edit]

In 2006, he released his third solo album, Songs from Before, which features Robert Wyatt reading texts by Haruki Murakami.[29]

24 Postcards in Full Colour (2008)[edit]

Richter released his fourth solo album 24 Postcards in Full Colour, a collection of 24 classically composed miniatures for ringtones, in 2008.[30] The pieces are a series of variations on the basic material, scored for strings, piano, and electronics.

Discussing the album with NPR Classical in 2017[31] Richter stated "People were downloading ringtones at the time and I felt this was a missed opportunity for composers. That there was a space opening up, maybe a billion little loudspeakers walking around the planet, but nobody was really thinking of this as a space for creative music. So I set out to make these tiny little fragments and then, of course, in the poetic sense, the idea of these little sounds carrying objects traversing the planet, I started to think of these as a connection, as a sort of postcard into somebody's life, into their space."

Infra (2010)