FRIDAY JULY 17th TEATRO POLIZIANO
8,30pm - An Aperitif at the Opera
9,30pm - Idroscalo Pasolini

SATURDAY JULY 18th TEATRO POLIZIANO
8,30pm - An Aperitif at the Opera
9,30pm - Idroscalo Pasolini

SUNDAY JULY 19th TEATRO POLIZIANO
5pm - An Aperitif at the Opera
6pm - Idroscalo Pasolini

In 1975, when Cantiere was taking shape in the minds of Henze and his collaborators, Pier Paolo Pasolini died, one of symbols of the Twentieth Century. On the 40th anniversary of his death, Cantiere wanted to honor this essential intellectual by commissioning from the composer Stefano Taglietti and the Poliziano librettist and director Carlo Pasquini the first opera based on his poetics. The choice of opera as a theater form to talk about such a sensitive theme as the death of Pasolini was born of the necessity to have complete expressive freedom to alternate declamation with recitative and arias in the musical flow of an ensemble.

 

Stefano Taglietti

A composer who trained with Henze. He has composed over 95 pieces for ensembles. His music is increasingly played in major centers for contemporary music such as Berlin Philharmonie, Nuremberg Opera, MaMa in New York, the Deutsche Pavillon Expò 2000 Hannover, The Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio in Boston, ARS AEVI in Sarajevo, the Biennial in Venice, the RAI New Music Season Turin 2004.

Carlo Pasquini

A director and playwright, he graduated in Cinema Direction from C.S.C. in Rome (1980). He has staged works by Wedekind, Genet, Brecht, De Filippo, Nabokov, Plauto, Shakespeare, Goldoni, J.Fosse and productions for young people written by himself. He directed Histoire du soldat by Stravinskij; The magic flute by Mozart; Brundibar by H. Krasa. He wrote the words for I tre indovinelli (2003) by D. Glanert and directed his Pinocchio Meneghino at Piccolo Teatro Strehler in Milan (2011).

Marco Angius

Reference conductor for the contemporary repertoire. He founded the group Algoritmo with whom he won the Disco Amadeus Prize. He has directed the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestre Philarmonique de Nancy, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi of Milan, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, in theatres such as La Fenice, Comunale di Bologna, Petruzzelli. He has performed at Venice Biennial, MiTo, Milano Musica, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Ars Musica in Brussels, Zagreb Biennial, Romaeuropa Festival, Accademia Chigiana.