Born to Sustinente (Mantua) in 1947, he completed his studies to Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In the wake of a poetic quest for a synthesis between history and the avant-garde, he made Musica per un'azione immaginaria (1976), Recit (from Pasolini, 1978), until to resulting, again with Pasolini, in Trionfo della notte (season '85/'86, Premio Abbiati). The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 Romanza alla notte followed in 1985. In 1994 he wrote for Montepulciano theopera_ Orfeo cantando... tolse_ on a text by Poliziano. In 1995 he inaugurated the Venice Biennale with Quare tristis, a secular mass created in collaboration with Giovanni Raboni. In 1998, for the Salzburg Festival he wrote, again with Raboni, the cantata Pensieri canuti, for soloists, choir, two ensembles to double choir and live electronics. In 2000, the Teatro alla Scala commissioned him to write another cantata, the Passion according to Matthew, performed at the Basilica of San Marco to Milan on the occasion of the jubilee. In 2002, the world premiere ofopera video Medea, for soloists, choir and orchestra, awarded the Abbiati Prize in 2003, was staged, to Venice. Also in 2003, Guarnieri inaugurated to Turin the RAI Contemporary Music Festival with La terra del tramonto for the RAI National Orchestra. In 2011, to Pesaro and to Bologna, theopera from camera Nell'alba dell'umano Processo to Costanza is performed, and in 2014 the cantata Lo stridere luttuoso degli acciai is performed in scenic form as a tribute to the victims of the Thyssen Krupp fire. For Ravenna Festival he undertook the writing of a triptych of plays on sacred themes, directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti: Pietra di di di diaspro (2007), Tenebrae (2010) and L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (2015).

PIETRO BOR GONOVO | Born to Milan, Pietro Borgonovo distinguishes himself in conducting symphonic and operatic productions for prestigious festivals and theaters. from report appearances at the Salzburger Festpiele conducting the Klangforum Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Venice Biennale, the Ravenna Festival with the Orchestra Cherubini and the Chicago Children's Choir. He conducts at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro San Carlo, Arena di Verona, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Teatro Verdi in Trieste and major orchestras in Italy, Europe and the United States. Last June he conducted at the Ravenna Festival the world premiere of Adriano Guarnieri'sopera L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle, directed by Cristina Muti; in October he opened the season of concerts at the Teatro San Carlo and the Arena di Verona. Very young, he established himself as one of the most successful oboe soloists on the world stage. A pupil of Heinz Holliger at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, he performs in the main halls and major international festivals: Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festpiele, Musikverein in Vienna, Festival d'Automne in Paris, Festival de Montreux, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Carnegie Hall in New York, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Pietro Borgonovo is Artistic Director of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese and since 2003 Artistic Director of the International Music Competition G. B. Viotti of Vercelli.

She was born and lives to Ravenna. After diplomas in didactic piano and artistic singing at the Milan Conservatory, she made her debut in 1967 as the lead in Paisiello's Osteria di Marechiaro conducted from Riccardo Muti, but in 1969 she married and left her career. In 1990 she accepted her City's invitation to put to her cultural experience to good use by organizing Ravenna Festival, of which from then chairs the artistic committee, and within which, since 1997, she has been promoting the project "Le vie dell'amicizia." Since 1995 she has been promoting innovative "workshops" dedicated to young people in the sphere ofopera opera. In 2001, as part of Ravenna Festival, she signed the direction of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, making structural use of those modern multimedia technologies that will become a distinctive feature of her style. In 2003 he directed Verdi's Il trovatore, while in 2008 it was the turn of Traviata. Verdi's "popular" trilogy will be completed in 2012 with a new staging ofRigoletto: the three united operas (which will come together in the creation Echi notturni di incanti verdiani, to Roncole Verdi, Busseto) are staged according to an unprecedented production module that allows a differentopera to be staged on the same stage each evening. This is what will happen the following year with the direction of Verdi's "Shakespearean" operas: Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff. In 2007, with the direction ofopera-video Pietra di di diaspro, he began his collaboration with Adriano Guarnieri: this was followed by the conception and direction of the video-scenic cantata Tenebrae (2010) and L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (2015). Among other things, he signs the directorial design of L'ultima notte di Scolacium, to original music by Piovani (2014). And recently that for La Bohème, as part of the 2015 Ravenna Festival's Puccini Trilogy. In 2000 she was awarded the Jerusalem Foundation Award, and in 2005 she received the honor of Grand'Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the President of the Italian Republic.

A graduate of DAMS in Bologna, he devoted himself to the profession of graphic designer and illustrator, designing stories and images for animated films and television programs. Since 1983 opera with the Compagnia Drammatico Vegetale, active in figure and children's theater, and since 1991 with Ravenna Teatro. Since the 1990s, his theatrical activity as set designer and visual designer prevails, applying the culture of the image to the scene, integrating it with its physicality, matter and space. In 2009 he began a stable and constant collaboration with the group of virtual image professionals Unit C1, of which he is the artistic director, developing an intense activity in the field of video projections, with virtual sets for theater, installations and architectural. As set and/or visual designer, costume designer, he participates to productions of opera, music, drama and ballet, curating creations for Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Pérez Galdóz, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Opéra Royal de Liège Wallonie, Belgium, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier. Particularly extensive collaboration with Ravenna Festival for which he signed, among others, Don Quixote (1994), Orfeo e Pulcinella (1995), Renardo la volpe (1997), La foresta incantata (1999), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2001), next al cielo (2004), La pietra di di diaspro (2007), La persa (2008), Tenebrae (2010), Macbeth, _Otello _and Falstaff (2013), L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (2015). From 2013 are the sets for Orpheus and Eurydice, by Gluck, produced from Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, directed by Chiara Muti, and in 2015 he created architectural video projections for Rossini's Moses at Milan Cathedral as part of EXPO.