Nuova Consonanza, a festival in the name of Stravinsky

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02 November 2021 Musical theater, performances, concerts, first performances, but also meetings, seminars, workshops and workshops for the Nuova Consonanza Festival, a historic event for today's music. The exhibition, now in its 58th edition, is scheduled in Rome from 7 November to 19 December. "Music in the plural" is the title of this year, a tribute to Igor Stravinskij whose fifty years of death fall: "Music is given to us to communicate with being and with others", thus the composer Russian defined the role of music. These reflections animate the new edition of the festival. Space and visibility will be given to the different aesthetic approaches, as is evident from the artistic history of Stravinskij, symbol and metaphor of "Music in the plural".

Opera in one act and six scenes,

inaugurates the Festival on Sunday 7 November at the Palladium Theater. New production made with the Opera InCanto Association, the opera was composed by Mauro Cardi on a libretto by Guido Barbieri; is staged under the direction of Enrico Frattaroli, while Fabio Maestri conducts the Ensemble In Canto. A sort of "seventeenth-century thriller" with a dramatic impact, in which the protagonist is Descartes himself (played by the actor Franco Mazzi) who, when he is dead, recounts what happened after his assassination in 1650 and all the enigmas that surround him. The cast is completed by the singers Valeria Matrosova, Patrizia Polia and Federico Benetti.

Particular attention will be given to contemporary musical theater, which in addition to the opening of the festival, will be present in various appointments on the bill, often with new productions.

is an absolute first

(Teatro Palladium, November 14), music by Fabrizio de Rossi Re based on texts by Cesare Pascarella. On November 17, also at the Palladium, the Italian premiere of

, melologue for narrator, soprano and ensemble by Silvia Colasanti on a libretto by Giorgio Ferrara and René De Ceccatty, based on the opera of the same name that inaugurated the Festival of Spoleto in 2018. World premiere also for

chamber opera in four scenes and two interludes by Daniele Carnini based on a text by Renata M. Molinari interpreted by the Hemisphaeria Trio (Theater of Villa Torlonia, 30 November). The opera is flanked by two works by André Previn and a version of Balada para un loco by Piazzolla in the arrangement curated by Ernesto Oliva.

Some appointments have been dedicated to Stravinskij, the inspiring figure of this year's Festival. On 12 December at the Mattatoio-La Pelanda Giovanni Maria Briganti is the author and actor of

, a new free adaptation of the

set in our days, with the Soloists of the Roma Tre Orchestra. Another evening homage to the Russian composer will be Stravinskij, on December 17th at the Mattatoio-La Pelanda. A journey through the variegated chamber production which is accompanied by a new opera commissioned by the Festival from Virginia Guastella. Gabriele Bonolis conducts the Bruno Maderna Ensemble, solo voice the mezzo-soprano Chiara Osella.

The theatrical productions and performances are flanked by concerts at the Mattatoio-La Pelanda with international performers and ensembles, to probe the varied repertoire of contemporary music, and bringing to the festival various novelties in Italian or absolute premieres. A very young Italian formation born in 2019, which gathers under 35 musicians, the Vittorio Calamani Philharmonic Orchestra makes its debut at the Festival on December 1st, conducted by Pasquale Corrado for the concert that bears the title

. On 4 December Francesco D'Orazio's violin is accompanied by Giampaolo Nuti's piano for a concert that includes two world premieres:

by the young Japanese composer Kaito Nakahori and

by Luca Antignani. The concert

(December 5)

is an in-depth study on the image of the labyrinth

, in which Nuova Consonanza asked five authoritative voices of today's composition, of different origins and ages (Alberto Cara, Andrea Mannucci, Osmo Tapio Räihälä, Emanuele Savagnone, Giampaolo Testoni), who have created as many new works that we will listen to for the first time by the NED ensemble directed by Andrea Mannucci.

is the concert on December 8 that will see soprano Maria Chiara Pavone on stage with Anna Armatys on the cello and Lucio Perotti on the piano performing music that is linked to the theme of absence and distance. On 11 December it will be the turn of the German ensemble BRuCH which brings together four young musicians: Sally Beck flute, Ella Rohwer cello, Claudia Chan piano and Marie Heeschen soprano. Two world premieres by Davide Remigio and Feliz Macahis are scheduled, and the Italian premieres by Dariya Maminova, Julien Jamet, Matthias Krüger.

On December 14, the concert of two renowned performers, Ivo Nilsson and Antonio Caggiano, who combine the sounds of their instruments in an original and unusual way, respectively the trombone and percussion, in the music written for their instruments by Nilsson himself, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi , Stefano Gervasoni, Nicola Sani (with the world premiere

which gives the title to the evening). Complete the

Program

by Giorgio Battistelli. The concert of the Roma Tre Orchestra on December 15, conducted by Benedetto Montebello, revolves around Stravinsky. It is an artistic partnership that has been going on for almost twenty years that of the Hetk Trio, which brings together the Dutch clarinetist Fie Schouten and two Estonian musicians, the flutist Tarmo Johannes and the pianist Taavi Kerikmäe. They debut at the Nuova Consonanza Festival on 18 December with a program of music by Jonathan Harvey, Giacinto Scelsi, Mark Baden, Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes, Paolo Perezzani and the world premiere of Roberto Mongardini's Nox.

The composition workshop that usually takes place during the Festival, the "De Musica", this year held by Marcello Panni who will analyze the score of the

. At the end of the workshop, the concert at the Palladium Theater (11 November) with the Roma Sinfonietta conducted by Panni himself in a program of music by Stravinskij (the concert suite of the

) and Panni (extracts from

). The composition seminar by Hwang-Long Pan, a Taiwanese musician trained in the 1970s in Germany, with Lehmann, Lachenmann and Isang Yun will be streaming from 25 to 28 November. The concert on November 28, live streaming on the Nuova Consonanza youtube channel, will feature the Chai Found Music Workshop Ensemble, which presents music for traditional Chinese instruments written by Hwang-Long himself and by David Tsai and Allan Wang. On December 3rd the improvisation workshop “Comporre dialogante” held by Alessandro Sbordoni also ends with a concert. On 10 December, at the Mattatoio-La Pelanda the round table on the theme "Music in the plural" which gives the title to this year's edition. As is now tradition, the Festival will close with the final of the XXIII edition of the Franco Evangelisti International Composition Competition.On December 19th, at the Mattatoio-La Pelanda the Freon Ensemble will perform the three finalist scores, conducted by Stefano Cardi.

As in the most recent editions, part of the Festival's programming will be held in some cities and villages in the province of Rome, enhancing the cultural spaces of the region and promoting contemporary music (and not only) even outside the capital.

On 14 December at the Museo delle Culture Villa Garibaldi in Riofreddo, Matteo Rocchi will be engaged in a solo viola concert, with music by Hindemith, D'Amico and Bach.

In Trevignano, the duo D'Orazio / Nuti will propose the program presented at the Slaughterhouse the day before on December 5th.

At the Manzù Museum in Ardea recital for cello only on 12 December with Alessandro Guaitolini engaged in music by Ligeti, Bach, Cassadó.

On the same day in Trevignano piano recital by Fabio Silvestro ranging from the nineteenth century to the present day.