Concert dedicated to music for trio composed by Marcello Fera

Enrico Filippo Maligno - violin

Federica Ragnini - cello

Mattia Previati - doublebass 

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardi double bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Otherworldly realms and magical beings in ancient Nordic traditions

A journey into the afterlife on the wings of an ancient Norwegian poem; enchanting spirits that populate traditional Swedish ballads and legends: Brú's music lifts the thin veil between reality and mystery and leaves us with a question... “Is there really a boundary?”

Concept, composition, and arrangements by Krishna Nagaraja

Program:

• Draumkvæde I: The frame of the vision
  (trad. Norwegian / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Swedish Medieval Ballad: "Herr Olof"
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Intermezzo: "Polska efter Pelle Fors"
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Draumkvæde II: Gjallarbrú, the bridge to the afterlife and its fierce guardians
  (trad. Norwegian / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• The Blue Goat set
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Swedish Medieval Ballad: "Lindormen" ("The Dragon-Serpent")
  (trad. Swedish & A. Norudde / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Intermezzo: "GjallarBrú"
  (K. Nagaraja)
• Draumkvæde III: Journey beyond death
  (trad. Norwegian / arr. and improvised Brú)
• Himlens polska (Polska of Paradise)
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Dansen Ungdom (Dance, young people)
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Martins Begravning (Martin is buried)
  (trad. Swedish / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Intermezzo: "Näckens polska" ("The Näcken’s polska")
  (trad. Swedish, text A.A. Afzelius (1812) / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Draumkvæde IV: The Day of Judgment
  (trad. Norwegian / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Domedagslåtten (The Day of Judgment)
  (trad. Norwegian)
• Swedish Medieval Ballad: "Näcken och Jungfrun" ("The Näcken and the Maiden")
  (trad. Swedish and Norwegian / arr. K. Nagaraja)
• Draumkvæde V: Epilogue
  (trad. Norwegian / arr. K. Nagaraja)

MAXIMA IMMORALIA
Chamber opera for voices and instruments

Libretto and music: Orazio Sciortino – Edizioni Curci

Orazio Sciortino – Conductor

Voices:
Maria Eleonora Caminada
Giulia Peri
Giulia Zaniboni

GAMO Ensemble
Marco Facchini – Violin
Lucio Labella Danzi – Cello
Nicola Tommasini – Accordion
Fabio Fornaciari – Piano
Federico Tramontana – Percussion

Maxima immoralia is a chamber opera between eros and satire. The libretto was written in the style of that successful, daring, and irreverent literature, in prose and verse, produced between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 

On stage there is only one character, a single woman, but with three voices, who recounts, through a structure of closed numbers, unconsummated marriages, prostitute nuns, dormant desires and daring fantasies, references to unedifying episodes in the history of the Church, with nods to the world of madrigals representative of the Baroque era, grotesque masks, and even popular cunto. 

Live music, made up of sounds suspended in time and based on unconventional sound emission techniques, in which a small ensemble together with a vocal trio takes the audience on a poetic journey full of biting irony.

J. S. Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (version for string trio)

A masterpiece of keyboard music (and music in general), the Goldberg Variations are presented here in a version for string trio. This composition, completely unusual for Bach, who had rarely written a theme and variations before, is said to have been written for the young virtuoso pianist Goldberg to help his patron and commissioner of the variations, Count Keyserling, fall asleep. A circular work made up of golden proportions both in its overall structure and in the individual variations, which sometimes (as in the Quodlibet) echo German folklore. ‘It is music, in short, that knows neither beginning nor end, music without a real climax and without a real resolution’ (Glenn Gould).

J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048

Jean Sibelius: Canzonetta, Op. 62a

Vanni Moretto: Ex silentio (Italian premiere)

W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 271 “Jeunehomme”

This program could be considered a small compendium of the different ways in which the individual elements that make up an orchestra can interact and relate to each other.

In Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto, written for nine strings (divided into groups of three) and basso continuo, the individual components are called upon to engage in a dense concertante dialogue in which the responsibility for both the solo passages and the dense, pulsating texture that sustains and drives the entire composition is shared equally by all. After this sort of incandescent fireball, which, except for a brief central suspension, releases energy with equal intensity throughout its development, we move on to Jean Sibelius's ‘Canzonetta’, taken from the incidental music for the play ‘Kuolema’ (death in Finnish). Here, it is the power of the melody that shapes the writing of the piece, organizing the sections of the ensemble into singing roles, alternately entrusted to the first violins and cellos, and accompanying roles. The rarefied atmosphere, the pace, and the “color” of the sound prepare the audience for the third piece on the program: Ex Silentio by Vanni Moretto. Presented here in its Italian premiere, this piece, commissioned from the Milanese composer in 2024 by the Opéra-Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand, features a new distribution of roles dictated by the form of the concerto for solo instrument and orchestra.  The orchestra opens the piece by offering a landscape with uncertain contours from which the solo violin draws the elements to shape form and meaning; on the one hand, the world, on the other, the individual experience that interprets and shapes it in its own interiority and determines its narrative. Another piece for solo instrument and orchestra, this time no longer for strings alone, concludes the program. This is Mozart's Piano Concerto K. 271, “Jeunehomme.” In the evolution of this form, to which Mozart made an enormous contribution, the Jeunehomme represents a decisive turning point between the style of the Salzburg period and that of the Viennese period. The soloist dialogues with the orchestra from the very first bars, according to a concept that clearly goes beyond the juxtaposition of soloist and orchestra, intertwining the musical discourse in a logic of continuous exchange. The protagonist is precisely this dialogue, rich in ideas, surprises, digressions, and different emotional states. It is a hierarchically mobile dynamic to which the soloist and orchestra contribute with equal force of necessity.

Music around Caribe

The concert dedicated to René Francisco's exhibition, linking back to its title, celebrates the collaboration between the Cuban double bass player and two of the most important names in jazz and Latin music, in a unique encounter inspired by the musical form that first spread from Cuba to Europe: the Habanera. An unprecedented set that moves through the intertwining of Latin American forms, to which so much musical imagery on both sides of the ocean is indebted.

Gaston Joya - double bass

Gabriele Mirabassi - clarinet

Roberto Taufic - guitar

Sergei Rachmaninov
6 Morceaux Op. 11
(version for two pianos and violin by M. Fera)

Leonard Bernstein
Excerpts from West Side Story
(transcription by M. Fera)

Marcello Fera
Sùia
To Hope Tonight

George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
(transcription by M. Fera)

For the conferral of honorary citizenship on Mary de Rachewiltz, Marcello Fera will perform a series of his own pieces for solo violin, including Dedica, in its first performance

Marcello Fera: Perdue, Sensa Sciou,
George Apergis: Le Corps à Corps
Philipp Lamprecht, M.Fera: Sogno Forma
Marcello Fera: Sulla barca di Dioniso

 

Tragicomic burlesque

A show by Andrea Chenna based on Mozart and Da Ponte

What if Don Giovanni were a comic opera? 

This surprising, entertaining and cultured show invites the audience to rediscover Mozart's masterpiece with new eyes. Based on Da Ponte's letters and the original stories, this version of Don Giovanni reveals the comic roots of the myth: romantic duets that become farcical sketches, talking statues that seem like commedia dell'arte pranks, and a Leporello transformed into an irresistible Harlequin.

With only four actor-singers, one musician and the support of technology, the show mixes theatre, music and cabaret to recount, with lightness and intelligence, one of the great myths of the West. 

Don Giovanni Unplugged entertains with elegance and surprises with its irony, intertwining music, literature and theatre in a lively and unpredictable stage performance. Between duels, disguises and commedia dell'arte jokes, the audience finds itself immersed in a world where myth bends to a smile and tradition is renewed with lightness.

A brilliant theatrical experience, capable of enchanting even those who think they already know this story.

Marcello Fera solo:
Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera Solo:
Canti dal Silenzio
music by M.Fera, Anonimo, D.Gabrielli, J.S.Bach

Don Giovanni Nicola Zambon
Leporello Pasquale Greco
Don Ottavio Carlos Negrín López
Donna Elvira Floriana Cicio
Donna Anna Mirjam Gruber
Commendatore e Masetto Ludovico Dal Pra
Zerlina Paola Valentina Molinari

Coro | Chor  Männergesangsverein
Maestro del coro | Choreinstudierung Josef Sagmeister
Orchestra di scena | Bühnenorchester Orchester der Musikfreunde
Corpo di ballo | Tanzkompanie Collettivo Clochart
Coreografa | Choreografin Hillary Anghileri
Maestro collaboratore I Korrepetitor Luca Sartori
 
Ensemble Conductus & Ensemble Windkraft
Clavicembalo | Cembalo Carmen Leoni
Violoncello Federica Ragnini
Violino di spalla | Konzertmeisterin Veronika Egger

Direttore | Dirigent Marcello Fera

Luci | Lichtgestaltung Marco Comuzzi
Scenografia | Bühnenbild Iris Da Ruos - Beatrice Zucca (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera)

Costumi | Kostüme Alessandro Osemont

Direttore di scena I Inspizient Michele Pignolo
Assistente alla regia I Regieassistentin Emma Bez

Regia | Regie Silvia Piccollo

Dances and songs from the oral tradition of ‘Le quattro Provincie’ arranged by Marcello Fera

Balkan Jazz from South Tyrol

DESTINI E PROFEZIE

Paolo Rotili Due meditazioni  (first performance)
Mario Garuti Cono in equilibrio sul suo vertice
Marcello Fera Sulla barca di Dioniso  (first performance)
Mauro Cardi Miroir 2
Tonino Battista Time maketh our Listening
more certain (…and giveth it more desire)

PAESE IN MUSICA - SOIRÉE DE CLÔTURE
Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera: Diaphonia, Le due vite – suite, In risposta, Segno, Ode 
Claudio Monteverdi / M.Fera: Lidia Spina
M. Fera: Interludio alla voce 
Francesco Landini: Selvagia Fera
M. Fera: Perdue, Sensa Sciou, Siebzieg Karat, That's it, La sacra conversazione
Ali Ulvi Baradan: Yemeni bağlamış telli başına

Henry Purcell - Fantasia n. 13 Upon one note
Marcello Fera – Hi Jack
M.Fera - Conductusphonia
M.Fera - Noname
M.Fera - Studietto per quattro
M.Fera - Follephonia
M.Fera -Ninna per Olga
Sirio Restani da anonimo - Mazurca d' Doro
M.Fera – La sacra conversazione
Djack do Carmo (arr. M.Fera) - Flor Formosa

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Canti dal Silenzio
 

Marcello Fera explores silence as the origin of art in music and words. Followed by a discussion with the artist.

With the solo programme ‘Canti dal Silenzio’ by Merano-based composer and musician Marcello Fera, ‘ZeLT. European Centre for Literature and Translation’ is launching its new series: ’dire dare. Lezioni di vita e arte. Talks about art & life.’

Followed by a discussion with the artist, moderated by Christine Helfer.

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

DIE ZWEI LEBEN (in German)
06.05.2025 - 8 p.m. Premiere]
09.05.2025 - 8 p.m.
11.05.2025 - 6 p.m.

LE DUE VITE (in italian)
14.05.2025 - ore 20. [Premi18.05.2025 - ore 18.

14.05.2025 - 8 p.m. [Premiere]
16.05.2025 - 8 p.m.
18.05.2025 - 6 p.m..

Bellanöva in concert

The traditional music duo formed by Stefano Valla and Daniele Scurati meets the violin and music writing of Marcello Fera and the cello of Nicola Segatta.

The concert is broadcast live on Radio 3 and, through Euroradio connections, in many countries in Europe
https://www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/iconcertidelquirinale

LADRE DI SABBIA

By and with Guido Barbieri.

It tells the story of Cape Verdean women forced to ‘steal’ sand from the archipelago's beaches to resell it to local construction companies. A way, often the only one possible, to survive the poverty to which many of them are condemned. The work revolves around ‘live’ images created by Gabriella Compagnone, one of Italy's best known and most appreciated sand artists, and uses a text written for the occasion by playwright Guido Barbieri. The musical part is entrusted to the quintet of the Calamani Philharmonic Orchestra conducted for the occasion by violinist and composer Marcello Fera, who has transcribed for string orchestra some of the most beautiful Cape Verdean mornas

Program:

Dani Caravalho: Tchintchirote
Teofilo Chantre: Roda Vida, No Amà
Mario Lucio: Maylen
Beleza: Talvez, Petit Pays
Frank Cavaquim: Mar Azul
Djack do Carmo: Flor Formosa
Marcello Fera: Taglio, All’intorno, Aframunda

Marcello Fera - Follephonia Doppia for violin, vibraphone and strings
Albert Doppler - Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra
Francis Poulenc - Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra

in cooperation with Musikschule Meran
https://deutsche-bildung.provinz.bz.it/de/musikschulen/home

Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi is a London-based experimental musician and artist with a Kongo family history. As part of the Merano Arte Aerolectics exhibition, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński invites Nkisi for a sound performance that resonates with elements of the exhibition. The name Nkisi refers to the fetishes widespread in much of central Africa, bearers of spiritual and non-material power. Her sound performances weave together experimentation with ancient musical techniques, liveness and the active involvement of the audience, who in dance, with their bodies, are invited to incorporate sound traditions that imply cultural resistance to the power structures of the global present.

Masimba Hwati - Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński 
Storming Breath. Soundings to Asue* (2025)

Masimba Hwati is an artist born in Mhondoro (Zimbabwe) who experiments with sound, sculpture, video and performance. With ‘found objects’ assembled on site, Hwati creates performable sculptures like wind instruments to which new life is breathed into with the breath of the musicians who manipulate them.

Masimba Hwati's performance is in combination with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński's exhibition Aerolectics 

The Adventures of Pinocchio, a sacred book
Igor Sibaldi unveils the treasures contained in Collodi's famous tale

Igor Sibaldi, a writer, philologist, translator and essayist whose breadth of interests and fields of enquiry go well beyond the aforementioned qualifications, proposes his reading of Collodi's text, which far from being considered ‘only’ a children's book or ‘only’ a literary masterpiece, is presented as a true sacred text, dense with biblical references and liberating indications for human existence rooted in ancient knowledge.

Igor Sibaldi, born of a Russian mother and an Italian father, was initially a translator for Mondadori of various works, especially by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, for whom he also wrote monographs and introductory essays. He then dedicated himself to his work as an author and to philosophical and theological research.
As an author, he has to his credit an endless bibliography that includes non-fiction, fiction and theatre. He is also known to the public for his oratorical skills, which are expressed in numerous lectures and seminars.

Gabriele Mirabassi and Simone Zanchini in concert:

Top meeting between two great virtuosi of their instrument, as well as protagonists of the international music scene. The musical transversality that distinguishes both of them allows them to express themselves with ease in both the world of jazz and classical music. In this duo, the sensuality of South American rhythms and the pulsating depth of old swing are mixed with the sonorities of a modern, contemporary jazz that is expressed in the compositional style of both
 

Twins in Heaven and on Earth
Riccardo Nova: Rudra Mantra, Kunti Mantra and Combat
(excerpts from Mahābhārata opera project)
for harp, percussion, electric guitar, electronics

From the famous epic and sacred book Mahabharata. A profound reflection on Hinduism as the basis from which the poem moves to offer a unique perspective on human existence and its myriad contradictory facets.

Composer Riccardo Nova reinterprets the Indian epic, bringing mantras, ancestral rhythms and contemporary sounds to the stage with effectiveness and balance. The work ‘Mahābhārata - Mantras, Fights and Threnody’ earned Riccardo Nova a nomination as a finalist for one of Europe's highest awards for composition, the ‘Prix Prince du Monaco’.

Canti dal Silenzio
by and with Marcello Fera
words as a double of musical discourse and the dual role of artistic director and musician

Program:

Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare,Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690]: Ricercare primo
From the Kroměříž Manuscript [1672]: Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga
All’intorno, Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt, Mnemo, Aframunda

LADRE DI SABBIA
The multimedia show Ladre di sabbia (Sand Thieves) tells - with the tools of words, images and music - the exciting story of the ‘slaves’ of Cape Verde. All proceeds will be donated, through a service of the Rotary Club of Foligno, to the NGO MEDICI CON L'AFRICA CUAMM, the largest Italian organisation for the promotion and protection of the health of African populations.

Program:
Dani Caravalho: Tchintchirote
Teofilo Chantre: Roda Vida, No Amà
Mario Lucio: Maylen
Beleza: Talvez, Petit Pays
Frank Cavaquim: Mar Azul
Djack do Carmo: Flor Formosa
Marcello Fera: Taglio, All’intorno, Aframunda

Word and Music

Canti dal silenzio by Marcello Fera.

Followed by a dialogue between the author and Maestro Vanni Moretto

sound installation

The level was high in all respects, splendid and homogeneous sound on all four strings, almost impeccable intonation and an extremely polished way of delivering or removing any musical element. [...]Marcello Fera has been able to reach the Fera has managed to reach the primordial place of every musician [...] that enchantment with which the relationship with the music is born and that it is the privilege of a few to preserve - achieved not by fortune but by consciousness, as it came to us explaining

Francesco Denini on SuonoSonda

It was not a concert in the strict sense of the word: Fera invented a way of being on stage that was really little frequented by the instrumentalists and even composers, because by playing he told his story, he told his art and his life as an artist.

Toni Job on Strisciarossa

PROGRAM
Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare, Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690] : Ricercare primo
MS from Kroměříž [1672] : Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga, All’intorno,  Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt,  Mnemo,  Aframunda

Reading by Roberta Dapunt from her own poetic work
Musical interventions by Marcello Fera

Musical performance for the presentation of the poetry collection Aria by Anne Marie Pircher 

Ladre di Sabbia
text by Guido Barbieri
music by Marcello Fera

Marcello Fera: Follephonia (from A. Corelli) 

Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij : Souvenir de Florence op. 70 

J.S. Bach: Konzert BWV 1056

Arash Safaian: ÜberBac

Marcello Fera - violin, composition, texts

PROGRAM
Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare, Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690] : Ricercare primo
MS from Kroměříž [1672] : Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga, All’intorno,  Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt,  Mnemo,  Aframunda

The level was high in all respects, splendid and homogeneous sound on all four strings, almost impeccable intonation and an extremely polished way of delivering or removing any musical element. [...]Marcello Fera has been able to reach the Fera has managed to reach the primordial place of every musician [...] that enchantment with which the relationship with the music is born and that it is the privilege of a few to preserve - achieved not by fortune but by consciousness, as it came to us explaining

Francesco Denini on SuonoSonda

It was not a concert in the strict sense of the word: Fera invented a way of being on stage that was really little frequented by the instrumentalists and even composers, because by playing he told his story, he told his art and his life as an artist.

Toni Job on Strisciarossa

PROGRAM
Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare, Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690] : Ricercare primo
MS from Kroměříž [1672] : Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga, All’intorno,  Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt,  Mnemo,  Aframunda

Poems by Roberta Dapunt and music by Marcello Fera

On the occasion of his 99th birthday, a collection of his poems in Italian will be presented. The volume entitled 'Processo in verso' published by Bertone, will be introduced by Massimo Bacigalupo, English-American literature specialist and translator, professor emeritus of the University of Genoa.

This will be followed by the reading of some poems by Mary de Rachewiltz.
Musical intervention by Marcello and Clemens Maria Fera.

Col solo mio violino: readings and spoken counterpoints around Niccolò Paganini's letters for the presentation of the new edition of Paganini's epistolary published by the Fondazione Accademia di Santa Cecilia

Concert presenting the CD Piccoli Arcani, music by Marcello Fera

Private concert by invitation only

Gabriele Mirabassi & Metaphora Ensemble

music by Marcello Fera, Germano Mazzocchetti, Gabriele Mirabassi

Marcello Fera: Follephonia (from Corelli)
Claudio Monteverdi / M. Fera: Lamento d’Arianna
Antonio Cesti / M.Fera: Non si parli più d’amore 
Guido Caccini / C.Lugo Amarilli
C.Monteverdi / C.Lugo: Cruda Amarilli
C.Monteverdi / M.Fera: Lidia spina
Marcello Fera: Luña cornua 
Claudio Lugo: Tre canzoni in genovese barocco

Guido Parteli "Il Sovversivo di Sfruz"

All the Badness of the 20th Century in One Life

dramatic cantata in eleven scenes and two epilogues

There is something unknowable and at the same time familiar about a piece of music. Like in a mystery to be deciphered. Marcello Fera presents with this programme his new CD Piccoli Arcani
(Small Arcana)

Music by
Marcello Fera
 

50 composers in one programme, each represented by a piece of just over or just under one minute. Each composition a poetic world

Rameau, J.S.Bach, Haydn,Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Czerny, Rossini, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Massenet, Chabrier, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Grieg, Bizet, Godowsky, Scriabin, De Falla, Debussy, Milhaud, Gershwin, Ravel, Strawinsky, Puccini, Poulenc, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Françaix, Young, Castiglioni, Feldman, Villa-Lobos, Castaldi, Ligeti, Cage, Berio, Adams, Canino, Sciarrino, Lucchetti, Crumb

Philipp Lamprecht makes a musical excursus through texts and music from and related to the Nibelungenlied (13th century)

in collaboration with Merano Arte and the Merano Academy for the exhibition I M A G I N E W O R L D S as part of the initiative NIBELUNGEN: die Rückkehr - the returnPilipp Lamprecht - voce e organo portativo medioevale

Beyond the surface of appearance, verse retains something of the poetry that surrounds and inhabits us. We know it and therefore re-know it expressed in words. In this concert, the poetics of Tormis' music and the setting to music of Roberta Dapunt's poetry

Ottorino Respighi: Antiche arie e danze per liuto – Terza suite
Traditional (arr. M.Fera): Levar di tavola
Velijo Tormis: Melancholy Songs  (italian premiere)
Marcello Fera : Della carne e della lingua, five songs on lyrics by Roberta Dapunt  (italian premiere)

a portrait of two extraordinary artists, told in word and music

Joaquín Turina: Círculo Op. 91

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Trio in D Minor, Op. 11

The Nibelungen manuscripts found just a stone's throw from Italy, Wagner's visit to Rossini, who as a boy was known as 'the little German'; or the strange entanglements between Nordic myths and the Mediterranean

G. Rossini: Il signor Bruschino - Ouverture
W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Ouverture
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Kreuz an der Ostsee – Ouverture
R. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
G. Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Ouverture

REVENSCH & MARCELLO FERA
The band Revensch led by saxophonist and singer Helga Plankensteiner in a brand new edition with special guest Marcello Fera as violinist and singer presents a new repertoire of Buscaglione, Calypso, Dixie and Balcangrooves with Italian swing classics and original compositions

Canti dal Silenzio

you can follow the event online by booking by 5 November at
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Il Canto di Circe
Music by Claudio Lugo
from Cantus Circaeus by Giordano Bruno. First performance (commissioned by the Festival)
in addition, pieces by Claudio Monteverdi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giulio Caccini, Marcello Fera

Music for a special audience, half an hour of concert time, a duration suitable for children under 4 and their parents. Families will have a changing room at their disposal, a dedicated parking space for prams, and, for the little ones, the opportunity to move freely in the hall, clap their hands, give free rein to their emotions without fear of disturbing anyone, and certainly... scream with joy! 
On the programme is music reflecting the scents and flavours of the Mediterranean, elaborated by the creative hand of Nicola Segatta. Duration: 35 minutes

Music for a special audience, half an hour of concert time, a duration suitable for children under 4 and their parents. Families will have a changing room at their disposal, a dedicated parking space for prams, and, for the little ones, the opportunity to move freely in the hall, clap their hands, give free rein to their emotions without fear of disturbing anyone, and certainly... scream with joy! 
On the programme is music reflecting the scents and flavours of the Mediterranean, elaborated by the creative hand of Nicola Segatta. Duration: 35 minutes

The worlds of childhood
I. Stravinsky - Eight miniatures for instruments (version for strings by M. Fera)
Anonymous - Symphony of Toys
W.A.Mozart - Galimathias Musicum
M.Ravel - Ma mère l'oye. Five children's pieces inspired by the tales of Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy and Madame Leprince de Beaumont. (version for strings by M. Fera)

Tierkreis/Zodiac
by Karlheinz Stockhausen
A performance by I Burattini di Luciano Gottardi

Dedicated to Christian Martinelli
Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji's theme and Icaros of the Shipibo people (Amazonia) for Christian Martinelli with a video projection of his works by Marcello Fera and Andrea Pizzini
W.A.Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K 414
I. Strawinsky - Pulcinella, suite for orchestra

Performance by Conductus musicians in front of the works in the exhibition incontrare Christian Martinelli begegnen

Duration: 30 min