Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli ( born April 25, 1953 in Albano Laziale in Rome ) is an Italian avant-garde composer of modern opera.

He studied composition, music history and piano at the Conservatory A.Casella in L'Aquila. At the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service, he spent the 1985/ 86 in Berlin. 1993 to 1996 he was Artistic Director of the Cantiere Internazionale d' Arte in Montepulciano. Since 1996 he was artistic director of the Orchestra della Toscana.

Greater attention aroused Battistelli 2002 with a musical staging of Ernst Jünger On the Marble Cliffs at the National Theatre Mannheim in the Battistelli was also involved in the libretto. A similar interest was Experimendum Mundi in 2005, in which the musicality of the world of work should be made clear. The work should be understood as a bridge between everyday sounds of craftsmen to contemporary music.

Works (selection)

  • Experimentum Mundi (Rome, 1981)
  • Aphrodite (Bordeaux, 1983)
  • Linzer steel Opera (Linz, 1985)
  • Jules Verne (Strasbourg, 1985)
  • Combattimento di Ettore e Achille (Strasbourg, 1989)
  • Kepler's Dream (Linz, 1990)
  • Ascolto di Rembrandt ( Rome, 1991)
  • Teorema (Munich, 1992)
  • Mrs. Frankenstein (Berlin, 1993)
  • Prova d' Orchestra (Strasbourg, 1995)
  • The Cenci (London, 1997)
  • The Discovery of Slowness (Bremen, 1997)
  • On the Marble Cliffs (Mannheim, 2002)
  • Richard III ( Dusseldorf, 2005)
  • El otoño del patriarca (Bremen, 2005)
  • Miracolo a Milano (Reggio Emilia, 2007)
  • The Fashion ( Dusseldorf, 2008)
  • Man
  • Italian composer
  • Born in 1953
  • Composer ( opera )
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