Francesco Fanna is the current director of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute in Venice, founded in 1947 by his father Antonio, author of one of the first catalogues of Antonio Vivaldi’s works. Therefore, it is clear that the Fanna family is very closely connected with the Venetian master. Francesco Fanna studied violin with Antonio Carmignola and at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Paolo Borciani. Furthermore, he studied composition with one of the most famous Italian composers and teachers of the second half of the 20th century, Franco Donatoni, who influenced three generations of Italian authors. Later, he also studied conducting and choral conducting. He has performed as a conductor with the orchestras in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, South Korea and Japan. His ties to the Czech Republic are quite significant as he collaborated mainly with the Virtuosi di Praga orchestra and the publisher Lupulus, with which he made several films for Czech Television. Since 2005, he has been the artistic director of the Compagnia per la musica sacra (Society for Sacred Music) in Milan. Regarding the Vivaldi’s work, he focused his interest mainly on vocal-instrumental works. He made the historically first recording of Vivaldi’s opera La Griselda with Les solistes de Moscou-Montpellier for the label Arkadia and psalm Beatus vir RV 795 for label Agorà. He has been the director of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute, which is part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, since 1997.