The meeting is led by Federico Favali.
Wednesday 14 January
Sala 4
The lecture will examine several salient features of some female characters in Giacomo Puccini's operas. Dramaturgical and musical peculiarities of different characters from different situations and operas will be discussed. It will not just be a matter of describing what can be inferred from librettos or scores; it will be a matter of reading these characteristics in relation to the artistic and human evolution of Puccini himself. In this way it will also be possible to say a great deal about his vision of theater, his way of relating to theater and writing for it. Above all, it will be possible to understand how current his message is. The lecture also wants to show how the change of the female figure also corresponds to a harmonic evolution of Puccini's musical language. The goal is to give the listener tools and a key to enter more deeply into roles that are already well known but often not considered in their dramaturgical complexity and therefore not fully appreciated for their beauty
A composer, he writes music characterized by the use of theatrical gestures and a keen sensitivity to the color of sound. His music has received international acclaim and has been performed in several countries by various distinguished musicians and ensembles, including the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Lontano Ensemble. His catalog includes vocal music, a chamber work, compositions for solo instrument and music for ensemble and orchestra. In 2014 he received a commission from the Teatro del Giglio Giacomo Puccini in Lucca to write the chamber opera The Collapse of the House of Usher. In 2015 he was invited to the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival (South Korea) and in 2016 to the CrossCurrents festival in Birmingham (UK). In 2017 and 2019 he spent study periods at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. As a musicologist he works mainly on music analysis. He received his diploma in piano in Lucca and a degree in musicology from the University of Bologna. He has studied composition in Italy, England, Argentina and the United States. His music is published by Donemus.
