Scientific direction: Giordano Ferrari

Luciano Berio’s theatrical practice marked the whole of the second half of the twentieth century by breaking the conventions of operatic culture and by becoming a reference for experimentation within musical dramaturgy. The composer achieved this result through both his musical art and an awareness that he was operating in a world in rapid transformation with regard to communication, expression and the way in which his own culture was to be interpreted and lived. As with other comrades in arms of his generation, the theatrical stage was for Berio an opportunity to enter into contact with this evolution, to study it, to analyse it, to express his own fears and his position as human being and artiste.
To study Berio’s stage production thus means entering into the heart of the evolution of the dramatico-musical stage that has prepared current scenic art in the 21st century, a situation today consisting of new dimensions of communication, of ‘new stages’ (new venues, new forms and new means of representation), still, however, with the artiste’s same necessity to place the human element.
Six days of study, three in Venice and three in Paris, each devoted to a single stage work, have been programmed for this seminar. These two days, devoted to Opera and La Vera Storia are respectively the second and the third stages of the project.

Scientific committee: Talia Pecker Berio, Gianmario Borio, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Giovanni Morelli, Gianfranco Vinay.
 
Partnership: Cdmc – University of Paris 8 (D.M.C.E., Laboratoire de Dramaturgie Musicale) with the collaboration of the University of Sienna, the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, Florence. with the assistance of La Muse en Circuit, Centre National de Création Musicale.

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