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Early-Music Seminars 2017 | Roman de Fauvel. Music and Corruption in the Paris of Philip the Fair. 1300-1315

The early music seminars, directed by Pedro Memelsdorff since 2006, take place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini twice a year in February and October, thanks to the contribution and collaboration of the Fondation Concordance, the Fondation Irma Merk and the Fondation L. + Th. La Roche (Basel, Switzerland). The October seminar is devoted to the Roman de Fauvel, a long early 14th-century satirical poem attributed to Gervais du Bus, a clerk at the court of the King Philip IV (the Fair) of France.

Based on the metaphor of an ass – Fauvel – who had become a monarch through a twist of fate, the Roman is a caustic criticism of the royal court and church and was banned for being heretical and seditious. This did nothing to diminish its popularity, however. Published around 1310-14, the Roman was almost immediately interpolated with some remarkable images and, most importantly, pieces of music composed in a variety of monophonic and polyphonic styles, including some of the most sophisticated motets of the French Ars nova, attributed to the poet, composer and diplomatic Philippe de Vitry.

The seminar will explore the complex cross-media relations between test, image and music as found in the richest interpolated version of the Roman – manuscript no. 146 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France – with some of the greatest experts on the subject: Benjamin Bagby, founder and director of the celebrated medieval ensemble Sequentia, and the eminent musicologists Margaret Bent and Anna Zayaruznaya (Universities of Oxford and Yale).

On Friday, 12 October at 6pm the scholarship-holders (selected through an international call for applications), directed by Benjamin Bagby will perform in a public concert at the Auditorium “Lo Squero”

 

Inés Alonso Botella, soprano
Roberta Diamond, soprano
Ozan Karagöz, tenore
Jung Min Kim, soprano
Sylvia Leith, mezzo soprano
Laura Martínez Boj, soprano
Wolodymyr Smishkewych, tenore
Raphaële Soumagnas, soprano
Belén Vaquero Hernandez, soprano

Free entrance

Early-Music Seminars 2016 | Europa Rossi. Singing and Praying in Jewish Italy 1600-1630

A seminar and a conference – concert to remember one of the earliest Jewish female professional singers in the Western world, the Mantuan Europa Rossi, and her celebrated brother Salomone (1570-c.1630): composer, liturgist, and promoter of the first printed polyphony on Hebrew texts in early 17th-century Venice.

As part of a cooperation project involving the Saly Frommer Foundation and the Anna Pickhardt Seminars, Basel, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Committee for the Fifth Centenary of the Ghetto of Venice (1516-2016), a young soprano will perform a selection of songs composed by Salomone, probably for Europa Rossi, while a vocal group will sing some of Salomone’s most moving Hebrew psalms.

Lastly, two baroque violinists will play a selection of his best-known sonatas and other instrumental music.

 

Shakespeare in Venice Summer School. The Shylock Project

After the success in the summer of 2015, the Study Center Theatre and Opera, in collaboration with the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and with the sponsorship of the Committee for the five hundredth anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice, organizes the second edition of the Shakespeare in Venice Summer School. The program will be divided over two weeks of intensive studies with a number of events open to the public, and will be attended by internationally renowned experts and teachers. The Summer School is part of the European project Shakespeare and beyond the Ghetto: staging Europe across cultures, involving several international partners, including Warwick University, Queen Mary University of London, Ludwig – Maximilians – Universität München, Tony Bulandra Theatre.

The course includes the participation of internationally renowned teachers such as:

Jerry Brotton, David Bryant, Tom Cartelli, Fernando Cioni, Karin Coonrod, Tobias Döring, Paul Edmondson, Tibor Fabiny, Stephen Greenblatt, Diana Henderson, David Scott Kastan, Carol Chillington Rutter, David Schalkwyk, James Shapiro, Boika Sokolova, Stanley Wells

Directors: Maria Ida Biggi and Shaul Bassi

The Summer School will be held to coincide with a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by the Compagnia de ‘ Colombari , set in the Venetian Ghetto and promoted to celebrate the four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death and the five hundred years of the creation of the ghetto itself.

Below you can find the list of the events that are open to the public

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Tuesday 19th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 3.30 pm

Screening of Orson Welles’ The Merchant of Venice (1969)

Luca Giuliani, Presentation of the Restored Version

 

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Auditorium “Lo Squero”, h. 6.00 pm

Concert Where is Fancy Bred?

Rosemary Forbes Butler, Gianluca Geremia & Marco Rosa Salva


Friday 22nd of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 5.30 pm

Diana Henderson, 2016 and Beyond: MIT’s Global Shakespeares Performance Archive


Monday 25th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini

h. 4.00 pm– Paul Edmondson, Christianity and the Merchant

h. 5.30 pm – Stanley Wells, Shylocks


Tuesday 26th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 5.00 pm

Book Launch: Howard Jacobson, Shylock is My Name

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For further information: shylockproject@cini.it

Il Mercante di Venezia in Ghetto: www.themerchantinvenice.org

 

Early-Music Seminars 2015 | Matteo da Perugia Music in Gothic Milan (1390-1425)

Early Music Seminars Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini
17-21 May, 2015
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

 

Matteo da Perugia Music in Gothic Milan (1390-1425)

Director: Pedro Memelsdorff

Lectures and master-classes by: Anne Azéma, Shira Kammen, Agnese Pavanello, Anne Stone.

The seminar will focus on the secular music of Matteo da Perugia (fl. 1400-1425), maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral from 1402 to 1407, and again from 1414 to 1416. Nothing is known about his possibly Umbrian training, and no documents of his non-Milanese years survive. Scholars have speculated on his possible stay at Pavia, Pisa or Bologna, where he might have served Cardinal Pietro Filargo (Pisan pope Alexander V after 1409), most likely his main patron.

Matteo’s music includes several Mass movements, two Latin motets and a rich series of Italian and above all French songs. Indeed, he authored the richest French chansonnier composed by a single Italian of his time.

Surprisingly few sources transmit this quite vast repertoire: a manuscript containing almost half of it — now in Modena — and three fragments now in Parma, Berne and New York. While scholars first hinted at a limited circulation of the material, more recent research has suggested that Matteo’s enturage had a decisive influence on mid-15th century theoretical sources in Italy and abroad.

His music may well represent the climax of Milanese and Lombard Gothic polyphony.

 

The seminar is addressed to the ensembles, winners of the call for scholarships announcement 2015, specialised in late mediaeval repertoires: Ensemble Aurion and Ensemble Sollazzo.

The event is organized with the contribution of Irma Merk Stiftung and L. + Th. Roche Stiftung and with the collaboration of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Programme

May 17 at 5 pm.: Introductory Conference “Matteo da Perugia’s French Songs and their Context”
by Anne Stone

May 18-19-20: Master-classes and Lectures
by Anne Azéma, Shira Kammen, Agnese Pavanello and Pedro Memelsdorff

May 20 at 6 pm.: Concert (free entrance until seats last)

May 21 at 10 am.: Conclusive Lecture

 

For further informations: musica.antica@cini.it – T. +39 041 2710258

 

Early-Music Seminars 2013 | More Hispano. Tomás Luis de Victoria in Rome and Madrid

10 May, 5 pm
Venice, Palazzo Grimani

Inauguration of the 2013 Early Music Seminars organised by Pedro Memelsdorff
in collaboration with the Special Superintendency for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-Anthropological Heritage and for the Museums of the City of Venice and of Towns on the Lagoon Belt

Introductory lecture  by Alfonso de Vicente on the motets composed by Tomás Luis de Victoria in Rome and Madrid.

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13 May,  9.30 am – 6.30 pm
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
International study day: Tomás Luis de Victoria in Rome and Madrid


15 May  18

Venice, Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore
Concert in collaboration with the Abbacy of San Giorgio Maggiore

Free admission

This seminar in the new series of Early Music Seminars at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, directed by Pedro Memelsdorff, is dedicated to the repertoire of motets, psalms and antiphonals devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary composed by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611). There will be a special focus on various interpretive traditions, principally Italian and Spanish. One of the most important composers of sacred music in late 16thcentury Europe, Tomás Luis de Victoria combined the infl uence of the best Spanish polyphonic composers who had preceded him at Avila – Espinar, Ribera, Navarro and Cabezón – with the Italian composers whom he had come across in his twenty-year stay in Rome, where he may even have studied with Palestrina. In addition to the historically accurate reconstruction and stylistic analyses of Victoria’s
motets, there will also be a focus on performances and performing history. Of particular interest is the comparison between Italian and Spanish traditions as regards the make-up of the groups of singers and the instrumental accompaniment for liturgical polyphonic singing, a practice well documented in early 17th-century Spain. For this purpose, two ensembles of scholarship holders (chosen through the usual call for applications) and an organ accompanist will be invited to take part. These young talented musicians will be mainly conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini (from Concerto Italiano) and Josep Borràs (an organologist, bassoon player and director of the Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya). They will be fl anked by other international experts on 17th-century Spanish liturgical music. The seminar will be opened by an introductory lecture at the Palazzo Grimani in collaboration with the Special Superintendency for the Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and for the Museum Centre of the City of Venice and Lagoon Settlements. On 15 May the seminar will end with the traditional concert open to the public. The early music seminars are held with the support of the Veneto Region.

30th Advanced Course. Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers

Having reached the major milestone of its 30th edition, the advanced course of the Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers – organized by Messaggerie Libri and Messaggerie Italiane in collaboration with the Associazione Librai Italiani and the Associazione Italiana Editori – will be held as usual on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
At this eagerly awaited important international event for the world of publishing, the participants will tackle various issues concerning the world of books, bookshops and the markets with a thorough, updated look at new ideas and developments in the field.
The Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri School for Booksellers was founded in 1983 with the aim of providing booksellers with the opportunity of furthering their education in the field. This involves keeping them up to date with the faster production of books, providing tools for analysis and innovative methods and informing about professional practice. In addition to having trained new generations of booksellers, over time the school has become a workshop for experimentation and discussions on the potential of the book. It is thus a special forum for studying strategies for positioning bookshops and ways of promoting their products.
The first of its kind in Italy, and the second in Europe after Frankfurt, the School for Booksellers fosters discussion that is not only limited to the organisation and management of sales points but extends to all aspects of bookselling activities: distribution, marketing and promotion. During the course the Luciano and Silvana Mauri Prize for Booksellers will be awarded.
For further information, please visit: www.scuolalibraiuem.it.

Fashioning Opera and Musical Theatre: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900

In collaboration with the University of Southampton and the Historical Archives of the Rubelli Historical Textile Collection, the Giorgio Cini Foundation Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera has promoted an international conference on the history and role of costumes in musical theatre: Fashioning Opera and Musical Theatre: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900. (Programme)

 The official conference languages are English and Italian. The conference programme was drafted by a scientific committee made up of the following experts: Maria Ida Biggi, Isabella Campagnol, Doretta Davanzo Poli, Valeria De Lucca and Helen Greenwald.

 Useful information on costs, accommodation and how to get to San Giorgio

 

Stage costumes play a key role in the way we experience musical theatre. They define the character and action, enhance the sound dimension and blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, past and present, and the human and the fantastic. From courtly theatre to popular entertainment, costumes, textiles and accessories are evidence of the material culture of their social milieus and the challenges that artists, craftsmen and designers faced in creating them. This conference brings together experts from various fields to discuss historical, economic and aesthetic issues related to the use and function of stage costumes in opera and musical entertainment in Europe from the late Renaissance to the early 20th century.

 

Picture: Anton Maria Zanetti, Caricature of Nicola Grimaldi called Niccolino and Francesca Guzzoni, c. 1730, Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Information and Services

Fashioning Opera and Musical Theatre: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900


Registration fee

The attendance fee covers admission to the conference, coffee breaks and lunches.ӬӬSpeakers and attendees for the full conference:ӬӬ60 eurosӬӬAttendees for 1 day (also includes either Thursday afternoon or Sunday morning):ӬӬ30 eurosӬӬStudent speakers or attendees:ӬӬ20 euros for 1 day (also includes either Thursday afternoon or Sunday morning)Ӭ40 euros for the full conference ӬӬӬ

Information for lodgings Ӭ
For information about the Vittore Branca Center and the possibility of staying at the Center’s  Residence as a participant at the conference Fashioning Opera and Musical Theatre: Stage Costumes in Europe from the Late Renaissance to 1900, contact: centrobranca@cini.it

How to get to the island of  San Giorgio

Contacts
Centro studi per la ricerca documentale sul teatro e il melodramma europeo
tel. +39 041 2710234 fax +39 041 2710215 ”¨e-mail teatromelodramma@cini.it

Nino Rota e Milano

Friday 02 december 2011 e saturday 03 december 2011 – CIDIM, in collaboration with Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, has announced a symposium which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer Nino Rota and in addition draws attention to a critical review which reconsiders the figure of the composer in the context of both his lifetime and present times.
The central theme of the conference is Rota’s musical talent and his extraordinary, precocious cultural knowledge, together with the formative years and the first compositions, and is the result of research studies carried out by three young musicologists – Matteo M. Vecchio, Federico Lazzaro and Giovanni Salis – and by eminent scholars including Francesco Lombardi, Emilio Sala and Carlo Cavalletti.

“Teatri d’opera dell’Unità  d’Italia”

Mercoledì 23 novembre 2011 si terrà a Venezia presso il Teatro La Fenice
un Convegno sui “Teatri d’opera dell’Unità d’Italia”.  Nel corso del
XIX secolo i teatri d’opera hanno svolto un ruolo significativo nella
diffusione dei sentimenti e delle idee risorgimentali: in occasione
delle celebrazioni dei 150 anni del nostro Paese non si può quindi non
evidenziarne l’importanza storica.
Lo stesso patrimonio architettonico dei teatri d’opera costituisce di
fatto un Bene Culturale da salvaguardare e valorizzare per le numerose
caratteristiche di originalità. Fra queste una menzione particolare
spetta all’acustica e al variegato insieme di soluzioni progettuali che
sono state sviluppate con l’obiettivo di favorire la fruizione del
complesso linguaggio musicale tipico dell’opera lirica. Ad esempio, la
necessità di bilanciare la pienezza del suono orchestrale con la
chiarezza della voce cantata costituisce un delicato compromesso che
trova proprio nei teatri all’italiana la sua realizzazione più
soddisfacente.
L’evento, organizzato dall’Associa­zione Italiana di Acustica con il
patrocinio della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, della Fondazione Scuola di San
Giorgio, dell’Università Ca’ Foscari e dell’Università IUAV di Venezia,
cercherà di stimolare una riflessione multidisciplinare sul paradigma
del teatro all’italiana, affinché dalle diverse prospettive di ricerca
coinvolte – musicologica, storica, architettonica ed in particolare
acustica – si possa comprendere organicamente il valore di una
straordinaria testimonianza culturale.

La partecipazione al Convegno è gratuita, previa iscrizione da
perfezionarsi tramite il sito web: www.associazioneitalianadiacustica.it
Per informazioni: info@associazioneitalianadiacustica.it
 

Ex novo musica Stagione 2011 VIII. edizione

18 November

Verso DarmstadtӬ
On Friday November the 18th the conference Verso Darmstadt will be held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation (Sala Piccolo Teatro) with Luis De Pablo, Mario Messinis and Gabriele Bonomo. Aldo Orvieto (piano) and Daniele Ruggieri (flute) will perform muiscs by Luciano Berio, Camillo Togni and Luis de Pablo.

Daniele Ruggieri flute
Aldo Orvieto piano

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Sequenza / (1958) per flauto

Camillo Togni (1922-1993)
Terzo Capriccio (1957) per pianoforte

Luis de Pablo (1930)
Condicionado (1962) per flauto in sol

Realized with the support of
 
Ministro per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Provincia di Venezia
Comune di Venezia, Assessorato alle Attività Culturali
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Gran Teatro La Fenice

More info 

Istituto per la Musica

tel. +39 041 2710220
fax.+39 041 2710215
e-mail musica@cini.it

or
www.exnovoensemble.it

info@exnovoensemble.it

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