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03 June 2020It is the most performed Italian composer internationally. Lucia Ronchetti and her music chosen for one of the first live concerts in Germany, at the Frankfurt Opera. An audience limited to 100 people will be able to access the Großer Saal on Thursday 4 June at 19.30 to listen to three compositions of the Roman musician. The concert will also be streamed live on the German music institution's YouTube channel.

For forty years, the Frankfurt-based Ensemble Modern has been among the most accredited formations in the panorama of contemporary music. As part of the review "Happy New Ears" (word game between year - year - and ears- ears), directed by Peter Tilling, the training had long planned an evening dedicated to the music of Lucia Ronchetti, then postponed due to the pandemic. Now finally the concert, which will be introduced by the composer herself, connected by videoconference, who will dialogue with Konrad Kuhn, playwright of the Frankfurt Opera: an occasion that confirms the strong artistic bond between the Roman musician and Germany (she had to debut right at the Frankfurt Opera on April 18 the new opera Inferno, taken from Dante's poem with an epilogue by Tiziano Scarpa, which due to the coronavirus was reprogrammed at the end of the 2020-21 season).

“It is a great satisfaction to be able to see that three of my musical theater works in concert, commissioned by important institutions in Paris, Cologne and Freiburg, are now taken up by the Ensemble Modern, which has always excelled in the performance of works with theatrical aspects - he says Lucia Ronchetti -. Their interpretations will highlight unprecedented aspects of the scores and mark the beginning of what each composer's dream of attending the repertoire of their works ".

The concert presents three works of instrumental musical theater that are part of the vast catalog created by the Roman composer. Each work implies a dramaturgy and the interpreters represent characters who operate on the instruments with extensive and traditional techniques, with both an executive and theatrical function. The audience witnesses the transformation of the interpreter into a character and the creation of the sound scene. The only scenic elements are the instruments themselves, the materials that the performers use to produce the sounds and the performance linked to the execution.

The concert opens with Cartilago auris, magna et irregulariter formed , dramaturgy for pianist and two operators of the internal system of the piano (2019). The first absolute performance of the new version for 12 instruments of Le Palais du silence follows (original version of 2013), dramaturgy by Claude Debussy. The program ends with Rosso Pompeiano, Scherzo per ensemble (2010) composed for the 25 years of the Ensemble Recherche.