Off stage: the 66th Venice Music Festival
From the 14 to 25 September will be held on 66th International Festival of Contemporary Music appointed Out of scenedirected by Lucia Ronchetti and produced by Venice Biennale.
300 artists on stage for a broad perspective of today’s musical theater and the role of new technologies. Stage concerts, immersive sound installations, radio works, performative readings, experimental performances, and much more for a very mobile scene that Lucia Ronchetti puts in close connection with the experimentalism of Venetian Baroque opera. Here it is Out of scene takes the viewer on a pilgrimage through the historic sites of Venice. The new musical theater productions will be presented, as well as in the spaces of the Arsenaleto the La Fenice Theaterin the Sansovinian hall of the Marciana Libraryin St. Mark’s Basilicain Chapter room of the Scuola Grande di San Roccoto the Goldoni Theateramong others.
Golden Lion to the career of the Festivalè Giorgio Battistelliof which three founding works of experimental musical theater will be presented: Giulio Vernewhich returns to the stage in the Italian version at the opening of the Festival on September 14, you interpret the charismatic percussionists of Ars Ludi – Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi, Gianluca Ruggeri – recipient of the Silver Lion; the amazing Horatii and Curiatii on September 17; in the end Experimentum Mundiwith over 800 replicas all over the world, which will conclude the Festival on 25 September in a new staging.
Many i new experimental musical theater works commissioned by the Biennale to some of the most incisive contemporary composers: Simon Steen-Andersen which operates a very original remix of Monteverdi in The return; Elena Tulveenter Visions integrates the fragments of a sacred representation to the Gnostic Gospel of Mary Magdalene; Annelies Van Parys than to cut out Adriano Banchieri’s madrigals in Notwehr; Michel van der Aathan in the erosion of the waters of The book of water evokes the aquatic landscapes ofAndromeda by Francesco Manelli; Paolo Buonvino than inside iatu collects the melting pot of Mediterranean cultures, languages, rhythms.
They will be in Italian premiereco-produced by the Biennale with other European institutions, the works of Alexander Schubert, Ondřej Adámek and the young Japanese composer Rino Murakamithat together with the choreographer and director Eric Oberdorff and to the ensemble of musicians and performers NESEVEN try to give new physicality and new authenticity to music and the way to interpret it.
There will also be the voices of the Kurdish-Iranian composer Mehdi Jalaliof the US Yvette Janine Jacksonrepresentative of Afro-Diasporic experimentalism, of KleinNigerian performer active in London, and the voices of the group of Native American composers highlighted by the collective project of the Shenandoah Conservatory. “All artists – he writes Lucia Ronchetti – which return to contemporary theater, in forms borrowed from pop musical creation and non-academic compositional research, the denunciation of spoliation, abuse, denial of rights, lack of recognition and respect for sexual identity, which are still under musical our eyes La Biennale Musica 2022 wants to offer a place to express themselves to some of these voices, urging them to experiment with new forms of performance ”.
For Biennial College you will be able to listen to the works of Paul Hauptmeier, Chief Timothy And Daniel Posazhennikov, Gemma Ragùès, Tania Cortés And Jacopo Cenni while Kathryn Vetter, Dafne Paris, Federico Tramontana, Esther-Elisabeth Rispens they will form the interpreting ensemble of the works of the instrumental theater of Aperghis, Sarhan and Bauckholt.
Finally, a virtual acoustic space at the entrance to the Arsenale and Forte Marghera (Pavilion 51): it is The Cas de the hippocampusproject born in Center for Multimedia Music Computing of the Venice Biennale (CIMM)thanks to the creative wisdom of Thierry Coduys who creates an immersive sound stage together with a team of specialists.
After the success of last year, the “Music lessons” from Rai Radio 3live from the Sala delle Colonne, home of the Biennale, with Giovanni Bietti and the care of Paola Damiani during the two weekends of the Festival.
Second edition also for Student Jury Prize: 14 young musicians under 25, coming from conservatories throughout Italy – from Bari, Campobasso, Castelfranco, L’Aquila, Padua, Pesaro, Potenza, Rome, Rovigo, Turin, Trieste, Venice, Verona and Vicenza – and under the guidance of playwright and music historian Guido Barbieriwill award the Best Production Award of musical theater and the Best performance award among those scheduled.
INFORMATION: purchase of tickets online (www.labiennale.org) and in Biennale sales points: Ca ‘Giustinian (10.00> 17.00), Infopoint at the Giardini and the Arsenale (11.00> 19.00), one hour before the start of the shows at the ticket office dedicated to the Arsenale