Alex Ganassini 
Alex Ganassini (born 20 December 1978) is an Italian composer. He began his career as a session guitarist and singer in Milan for many underground bands (The Lovecraft, AMA, The Movers, Chorus nine, Magnifiquat, MSQ).
Ganassini’s musical tastes included glam, rock progressive, gothic and alternative rock. Basically, all these genres are clearly mixed in his music. His first solo album “Caligula” is a rock opera inspired on a controversial philosophical play written by French author Albert Camus in 1938. In this reinterpretation the roman emperor, transformed in a kind of glam rock-star, is not a maniac but a true reflection of the state of human mind existing in a world where there is no direction, no aim.
Alex Ganassini lives in Milan
Albert Camus was born in Mondovi in 1913. Less than a year after Camus was born, his father, an impoverished worker of Alsatian origin, was killed in World War I during the First Battle of the
Marne. His mother, of Spanish descent, worked as a charwoman to support her family.In primary school, Camus found a teacher, Louis Germain, who recognized the young boy’s intellectual potential and encouraged him in his studies. After taking a short break necessitated by a bout with tuberculosis, Camus continued his education at the University of Algiers. After earning a degree in philosophy, Camus relocated to Metropolitan France and took up journalism. After World War II broke out, Camus used his literary talents to support the French Resistance, taking on the editorship of Combat, an important underground paper.
In 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright. The two most important plays are Caligula (1938) and Cross Purpose (1944). He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner. Other well-known works of Camus are The Myth of Sisyphus (Le Mythe de Sisyphe, 1942), The Stranger (L’Étranger, 1942) The Plague (La Peste, 1947), The Fall (La Chute, 1956), and Exile and the Kingdom (L’Exile et le royaume, 1957). In 1957, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On January 4, 1960, Camus was killed in an automobile accident while returning to Paris with his friend and publisher Michel Gallimard. He was only forty-six years old.
