This Sunday, December 7, Italy’s most famous opera theater, La Scala in Milan, inaugurates its annual opera season, awaited with anticipation by music lovers. Besides, we are entering the holiday season and we can already hear festive tunes in the air, so we have picked musica (music) for our Word of the Week.
Musica is a feminine noun in Italian, so it takes the feminine article la – la musica italiana mi piace molto (I really like Italian music).
To play music is suonare la musica.
If you like your music loud, you like to mettere la musica a palla (pump up the music).
Music is also used in some idiomatic expressions, such as:
Cambiare musica – things have got to change
Questa è musica per le mie orecchie – that’s music to my ears
Now listen to Raffaella Carrà and her 1970 hit, “Ma che musica maestro”:
