When Collectio Musicorum performed its concert "The Many Sounds of Rigoletto--the Music behind the Music," it performed a selection from Giacomo Panizza's "Faust." The recording of this concert being online, it was heard by people from Castellazzo Bormida, the town in Northern Italy wherre he was born. This resulted in Dr. Dailey being invited to speak about the composer, via Zoom and in Italian, to a meeting in the town to celebrate the release of a booklet about Panizza and his decendants (his son, Achille, was the conductor at the premiere of Puccini's first opera). Dr. Dailey subsequently spoke about Panizza at a meeting in Dublin of the Society for Musicology in Ireland. One of the questions that arose at that meeting was where one could hear music by Panizza, whose music has been overlooked--with the exception of his Ballabile con Variazioni for E flat clarinet, none of his music has appeared in modern editions.
Collectio Musicorum has since started The Panizza Project, which will present recordings of selected pieces by this composer, as well as other materials. The first recording--of ballet transcriptions--has already been done and is being edited. Recordings of his vocal music will take place in 2024.