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 […]

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 […]

Turandot alla Scala con il finale di Berio

Il Teatro alla Scala di Milano celebra l’inaugurazione dell’Expo Milano 2015 presentando Turandot di Giacomo Puccini con il terzo Atto completato da Luciano Berio nel 2001. L’opera, in cartellone dal 1 al 23 maggio 2015, si avvale di un cast d’eccezione diretto da Riccardo Chailly e con la regia di Nikolaus Lehnhoff. La serata del […]

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. – INTERVIEWS – DOCUMENTS – AUDIO – CHRONOLOGY – PRESS (SELECTION)

Passaggio a Colonia, Un re in ascolto a Kassel

Maggio 2015, in cui ricorre il dodicesimo anniversario della scomparsa di Luciano Berio (27 maggio 2003), è un mese ricco di eventi specialmente per il teatro musicale di Berio. Passaggio, nato dalla collaborazione del compositore con Edoardo Sanguineti, è eseguito nel quadro del Festival Acht Brücken di Colonia, con il soprano Julia Henning, i Kölner […]

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 […]

“Poetica implicita vs poetica esplicita: gli scritti di Luciano Berio”. Giornata di studio

Il 24 ottobre 2013 ha avuto luogo a Siena una giornata seminariale dal titolo Poetica implicita vs poetica esplicita: gli scritti di Luciano Berio. L’incontro è organizzato nell’ambito del progetto “Pegaso” di Dottorato interregionale in Storia delle Arti e dello Spettacolo (Università di Firenze, Pisa e Siena), in collaborazione con il Centro Studi Luciano Berio […]

Adieu, Pierre

“… in one way or another, I always carry him within myself.” © Marion Kalter To be or not to be with Pierre Boulez in Chicago in these happy days makes little difference to me because I am always with him and, in one way or another, I always carry him within myself. My musical […]

Circle Around – Locandina

L. Berio, Turandot

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

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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 […]

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 […]