Book Series Contemporary Composers, vol. 3

The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti

Daniela Tortora (ed)

  • Pages: approx. xxiv + 603 p.
  • Size:210 x 270 mm
  • Illustrations:80 b/w, 27 col.
  • Language(s):English, Italian, French
  • Publication Year:2020

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  • ISBN: 978-2-503-58952-7
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This work encompasses all the theatrical activity of Sylvano Bussotti

BIO

DANIELA TORTORA lives in Roma and teaches History and Aesthetics of Music at the Conservatory S. Pietro a Majella of Napoli. Her main works are studies and researches in the fields of the musical dramaturgy of 19th- and 20th-century Italian Opera. She directs the musicological series of books "I discorsi della musica" from the publisher Aracne of Rome.

Summary

The première of Sylvano Bussotti’s «La Passion selon Sade» occurred fifty years ago in Palermo during the fifth edition of "Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica" (5 September 1965). «La Passion selon Sade» was the first theatrical work of Sylvano Bussotti, the first of a long and very impressive list of operas. The theatrical bent of the Florentine composer proceeded uninterrupted since then, developing through many phases (among them, the well-known Bussottioperaballet) and it has included a multitude of arts, texts, languages, artists, musicians, performers, choreographers, dancers, mimes, actors, producers and theatres: all of which constitute a large heritage from which it is possible to draw both from an historical and operational point of view. This first monograph about «The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti» will encompass all the theatrical activity of Sylvano Bussotti from «La Passion selon Sade» through today, including cinema, theatre and the artistic management of lyric theatres.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Daniela Tortora
Introduction

Theatre Studies

Jürgen Maehder
Sylvano Bussotti’s Music Theatre as Image-based Gesamtkunstwerk: Narrativity and Musico-Dramatic Coherence from La Passion selon Sade to L’Ispirazione
Matteo Nanni
Il Dioniso restituito. Osservazioni estetiche sulla Passion selon Sade
Ivanka Stoïanova
Le théâtre musical interdisciplinaire de Sylvano Bussotti: Entre Mallamé, Debussy et Signorelli, Questo fauno (1998-1999)
Adriana Guarnieri Corazzol
A proposito degli scritti di Sylvano Bussotti

The Voice in Bussotti’s Oeuvre

Anne-May Krüger
Processes and Communication in Sylvano Bussotti’s Voix de femme
Renzo Guardenti
À propos de Sylvano Bussotti, acteur
Daniela Tortora
Sinite parvulos venire ad me: Voices of Childhood in the Theatre of Sylb
Giovanna Morelli
Primo piano e panoramica. L’arte mitobiografica di Sylvano Bussotti

BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET

Patrizia Veroli
Corps sceniques de Sylvano Bussotti. Gestes, danses, signes
Alessandro Mastropietro
OPERA: Considering Lorenzaccio (again), through New Intertextual and Documentary Contributions
Massimiliano Locanto
Da Nottetempo con lo scherzo e una rosa a Bergkristall/Cristallo di rocca.Metamorfosi sonore e continuità tematiche in Sylvano Bussotti
Federica Marsico
Le provocazioni di Le Racine: l’erotismo selon Sylvano Bussotti
Ivanka Stoïanova
La passione estetica dell’orrore come movente della tragedia Tieste su una trama da Seneca di Sylvano Bussotti
Giovanni Guanti
La scommessa di Sylvano Bussotti tra autobiografismo rizomatico ed ‘eccesso di democrazia’

Bussotti in Milan and Venice

Alessandro Turba
…Sprofondate sponde… Un’archeo-fiction di All’Italia
Stefano Lombardi Vallauri
Music Theatre as an Ethical Laboratory: La Passion selon Sade and Oggetto amato/Nottetempo as Political Acts of the Sixties and Seventies
Nadia Palazzo
All the Colors of Music: Le bal Mirò
Maria Ida Biggi
Sylvano Bussotti in Venice, at Teatro La Fenice and the Venice Biennale
Marco Cosci
Video as Arrangement: Sylvano Bussotti at the Biennale
Maurizio Corbella
Niente stasera: Sylvano Bussotti and the Film Composer’s Simulacrum

Stage Design and Scenic Conceptions

Jürgen Maehder
«Una filosofia del melodramma ragionata e vissuta in primissima persona»: Estetica teatrale e prassi registica in Sylvano Bussotti
Mila De Santis
Sylvano Bussotti, Luigi Dallapiccola, Ulisse
Michela Niccolai
Bussotti metteur en scène de Puccini: de Gianni Schicchi à Tosca

Testimonials

Paolo Emilio Carapezza
Suono, eros, logos, natura, gestualità vocale e teatro nella musica di Sylvano Bussotti
Carlo Sisi
L’immaginario visivo di Sylvano Bussotti
Moreno Bucci
Sylvano Bussotti: quel che resta della scena. Una mostra, gli spettacoli per il Teatro Comunale di Firenze e il Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Nicholas Isherwood
The Bass Voice in the Late Works of Sylvano Bussotti

Appendix
Index of Names