Giorgio Battistelli

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Giorgio Battistelli
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Battistelli in 2012
Born (1953-04-25) 25 April 1953 (age 70)
EducationConservatory of L'Aquila
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Festival director
Organizations

Giorgio Battistelli (born 25 April 1953) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. A native of Albano Laziale (province of Rome), he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel. Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His opera CO2 , based on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth , premiered at La Scala in 2015. [1]

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His opera Wake was premiered by the Birmingham Opera Company in March 2018 and is inspired by the story of Lazarus being brought back from the dead. [2]

In 1994 he founded with some friends the improvisation group entitled Edgard Varèse and an instrumental ensemble named Beat '72. From 1985 to 1986 he was host of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin. In 1990 he won the SIAE for an opera and in 1993 the Cervo Prize for contemporary music.

He was also artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana. He is currently director of the music section of the Venice Biennale.

In 2007 he was artistic director of the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme hosted by Aldeburgh Music. [1]

His music is published by Ricordi and recordings available on Stradivarius.

Stage works

TitleFormatLibretto and sourcePremiere
Experimentum MundiOpera di musica immaginistica, 60'the composer, after the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert
Linzer Stahloper
Jules VerneFantasia da camera, 60'
AphroditeMonodramma di costumi antichi, 50'after the novel Aphrodite: mœurs antiques by Pierre Louÿs
Combattimento di Ettore e AchilleReprésentation de corps et de mémoire, 60'the composer, after texts of Homer, Tirso de Molina, Goethe, Schiller, Shakespeare, Du Bellay, Racine, Stazio, Quintus, Monti, Leopardi, Foscolo, Chiabrera, Ariosto, Catullo, Ronsard, Valéry
Keplers TraumKammeroper, 60'the composer, loosely after Kepler
TeoremaParabola in musica in 2 atti (16 scene), 70'the composer, loosely after the film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Frau FrankensteinMonodramma del Prometeo moderno, 35'the composer, after Mary Shelley
Prova d’OrchestraTeatro di musica
Music theatrethe composer and Nick Ward, after the setting by Antonin Artaud of the verse drama by Shelley
Musiktheater in 5 scenes, 70'Michael Klügl, after the novel by Sten Nadolny
Impressions d'AfriqueMusic theatreLavaudant and Loayza, after texts by Roussel, Blake, Dickens, Morgenstern, Rabelais, Saba, Tasso
Auf den MarmorklippenMusikalische visionen, 100' Giorgio van Straten and the composer, after the novel by Ernst Jünger
Monodramma giocoso da camera, 70'Renzo Rosso
Opera in 6 scenes, 110'Gotthart Kuppel, after El otoño del patriarca by Gabriel García Márquez
Richard IIIDramma musicale in 2 acts, 150'Ian Burton, after the play by Shakespeare
Miracolo a MilanoMusic theatre, 90'the composer, loosely after the novel Totò il buono by Cesare Zavattini and its film adaption Miracolo a Milano by Vittorio De Sica
Opera Mondana in 12 scenes, 90' Bob Goody
Divorzio all'ItalianaAzione musicale in 23 tavole per il crepuscolo della famiglia, 90'the composer, loosely after the film by Pietro Germi
CO2 Opera, 90'Ian Burton, Sung in English with electronic libretto in Italian, English [4]
Il Medico dei PazziOpera
LotOpera
Wake OperaSarah Woods

Honour

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