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Upcoming events with Berio's music

The concerts featuring Luciano Berio’s music continue during the last month of Summer and Autumn 2015. Here follows a selection of the most outstanding events (for a complete list, see the Concert calendar).

In the frame of Divertimento Ensemble’s season Rondò 2015 in Monferrato are scheduled two concerts with works by Berio: on September 5 Lorna Windsor and Maria Grazia Bellocchio will perform La donna ideale and Ballo from Quattro Canzoni Popolari; on September 9 Luca Avanzi will perform Sequenza VII for oboe.
A-ronne is scheduled in Zurich on September 18, featuring the ensemble SoloVoices.
The Milano Musica festival will include three concerts with Berio’s music: on October 12 Linea and Six Encores will be performed by the soloists and ensemble of the contemporary music lab of the Conservatorio “G. Verdi”, Milan; on October 30 Cries of London will be performed by The Company of Music conducted by Johannes Hiemetsberger; on November 14 is scheduled the performance of Quartetto and Sincronie featuring the Arditti String Quartet.
The choreography Workwithinwork by William Forsythe, based on Berio’s Duetti per due violini, is scheduled in Düsseldorf from October 10 to December 25, featuring the Ballett am Rhein and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.

Passaggio in Cologne, Un re in ascolto in Kassel

May 2015, which marks the twelfth anniversary of Luciano Berio’s passing (27 May 2003), features many events, especially for Berio’s musical theatre.
Passaggio, conceived in collaboration with Edoardo Sanguineti, is performed in the frame of Festival Acht Brücken, Cologne, with soprano Julia Henning, the Kölner Vokalsolisten and the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado (May 9).
Seven performances of Un re in ascolto, the “azione musicale” realized from the sodality between Berio and Italo Calvino, are scheduled at Staatstheater Kassel, with Alexander Hannemann as conductor and Paul Esterhazy as stage director (May 23-July 25).
Sinfonia is performed at the Maison de Radio France by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Pascal Rophé (May 23). SOLO is performed in Munich by Christian Lindberg and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester, conducted by Zubin Mehta (June 1 and 2).
Recital for Cathy is scheduled in Ghent (June 5) and Düsseldorf (June 7), with Elisa Caluwaerts and the Spectra Ensemble, conducted by Mark-Andreas Schlingenspiepen.
The Sechs Frühe Lieder and Fünf Frühe Lieder by Mahler-Berio will be performed at Opera di Firenze featuring baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Orchestra Haydn, conducted by Arvo Volmer (June 6).
Via Luciano Berio in Milan was the venue for an open-air concert in the frame of the PianoCity festival (22-24 May 2015), an event that brought piano music to symbolic spots around Milan.

For the complete list of concerts with Berio’s music, see the Concert calendar.

Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot with the third act completed by Luciano Berio in 2001 was performed at the La Scala theatre on May 1st to mark the opening of the world fair «Expo Milano 2015».
The opera features an exceptional cast conducted by Riccardo Chailly and stage directed by with Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Seven more performances follow on May 5, 8, 12, 15, 17, 20 and 23.

We wish to mark this extraordinary event with a collection of documents and interviews given by Luciano Berio between 2001 and 2002, in which the composer describes and explains the genesis and the conception of his rewriting of Turandot’s finale. The documents include a facsimile selection of autograph manuscripts and a link to an audio file of Berio’s finale recorded in 2003 for Decca with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly.

For the documents on Berio’s completion of Turandot click here.

L. Berio, Turandot, page 3 of the autograph score (by courtesy of Paul Sacher Stiftung and the Berio Estate).

Turandot at La Scala theatre with Berio’s finale

Cover of the Sunday Calendar supplement of the «Los Angeles Times», 26 May 2002, featuring an image from the world première of Turandot with Luciano Berio's Finale.
For the documents on Berio’s completion of Turandot click here.

Remembering Mark

Mark Weir, a true friend and member of our team, passed away prematurely on Friday 2 October. Mark was a key figure of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio since its foundation in 2009 working ‘backstage’ for the English section of our website, translating and editing news, newsletters and documents. We wish to pay homage to his impeccable métier, to his human generosity, his love for music, and to thank him for his enthusiastic participation in the Centro Studi’s life and activities. We share the grief of Andrea Milanesi and of all of those who have known and loved Mark.

Luciano Berio, handwritten page from Una melodia di Gustav Mahler. Note sull’”Andante” della Sesta Sinfonia (in Colloque International Gustav Mahler, Paris 1986, pp. 108-115: 110, now in Luciano Berio, Scritti sulla musica, edited by A.I. De Benedictis, Torino, Einaudi 2013, p. 150).

Upcoming events with Berio's music

Between April and June 2015 are scheduled several concerts featuring Luciano Berio’s music. The following is a selection of the most outstanding events (for the full list see the Concert calendar).

A-ronne will be performed by vocal ensemble SoloVoices in Basel (April 23). The same day Rendering is scheduled in Västerås, with the Västerås Sinfonietta conducted by Julian Kuerti.
The Folk Songs will be performed both in St. Andrews by Tania Holland Williams and the St. Andrews New Music Ensemble (April 24), and at the Luxembourg Philharmonie, with Cristina Branco and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg conducted by Peter Rundel (May 8).
In the frame of Acht Brücken in Cologne is scheduled Passaggio, with soprano Julia Henning, the Kölner Vokalsolisten and the Ensemble intercontemporain, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado (May 9).
Sinfonia is performed at the Maison de Radio France by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Pascal Rophé (May 23).
In the Staatstheater Kassel’s concert season are scheduled seven performances of Un re in ascolto, with Alexander Hannemann as conductor and Paul Esterhazy as stage director (May 23 - July 25).

Via Luciano Berio in Milan

The CSLB announces with great happiness that a street has been named after Luciano Berio in a new Milan development being built in what used to be the Fiera area, called City Life. Via Luciano Berio is in a pedestrian area in the heart of the new neighborhood, and it flows into a piazza named after Elsa Morante; for plans of the area click here. An analogous street which will also flow into Piazza Morante will be dedicated to Italo Calvino. This musical and literary "crossing" was proposed by Filippo del Corno, Culture Minister of the City of Milan, and described to the press: "A writer and a composer who both had a special relationship with the city of Milan are remembered for their innovative view towards the future, and concern for the development of the city"; for the complete article click here.

Via Berio and Piazza Morante were inaugurated on Saturday, November 8th at 11:30 am, with a ceremony that took place in a pavilion erected on the piazza especially for the occasion. The greeting remarks by Filippo del Corno, Giorgio Lazzaro (Director of City Life) and Talia Pecker Berio were alternated with a selection from Luciano Berio’s Duetti played by the young violinists of the Conservatory of Milan, prepared and directed by Giovanna Polacco. The ceremony was concluded in front of the uncovered plate of the new street with a further homage to Berio: a surprise performance of a Bartók Duet by the entire group.
For a selection of Press clips click here.
For a photo gallery click here.
For the text of Talia Pecker Berio’s speech click here.

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