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Silvia Colasanti is present with her own compositions in major international musical institutions. Of fundamental importance for the construction of her poetics, between "material" taste of sound, strong lyricism and richness of registers, the collaboration with soloists and conductors of international caliber, such as Vladimir Yurovski, Yuri Bashmet, Salvatore Accardo, David Geringas, Nathalie Dessay, Massimo Quarta, Enrico Bronzi. He has written for the theater the melologue Orpheus. Flebile queritur lyra, performed from Maddalena Crippa, L'angelo del Liponard, an amorous delirium performed from Sandro Lombardi, Faust, a subjective tragedy in music on a text by F. Pessoa, commissioned and performed at the Accademia Chigiana from Ferdinando Bruni directed by Francesco Frongia, La Metamorfosi, on a libretto from Franz Kafka's short story of the same name and directed by Pier Luigi Pier'Alli, commissioned by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. On Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017, he performed Le imperdonabili, inspired by the figure of Etty Hillesum on a text by Guido Barbieri and directed by Alessio Pizzech. In 2016 it premiered at Spoleto's Festival dei 2Mondi Tre Risvegli, on a text by Patrizia Cavalli, directed by Mario Martone, starring Alba Rohrwacher. In 2017 he returns to Spoleto with Requiem. Stringeranno nei pugni una cometa, Oratorio per Soli, Coro e Orchestra, in memory of the victims of the earthquake in Central Italy, commissioned by the Spoleto Festival, on texts by Mariangela Gualtieri. The work was revived in several institutions and a CD from was released by Dynamic. In October 2017 he presented a new work for cello and strings written for David Geringas at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. In 2018 he inaugurated the Spoleto Festival withopera Minotauro, on a text by René De Ceccatty and Giorgio Ferrara, based on Dürrenmatt's short story of the same name, directed by Giorgio Ferrara. from this work was adapted into a melologue touring France and will conclude at the Philharmonie in Paris in 2020. In 2019, again for the Spoleto Festival, he will compose Proserpine, opera opera in two acts from Mary Shelley's play of the same name, directed by Giorgio Ferrara. A CD with his String Quartets from part of the Nous Quartet, will be released in August 2020 by Brilliant Classics. to November 2020 in Florence Cathedral is scheduled to perform Oltre l'azzurro, il sogno di Brunelleschi. Drama in Music for Actor, Chorus and Orchestra, on a text by Maria Grazia Calandrone, commissioned byOpera del Duomo - Santa Maria del Fiore. In 2013 she won the European Composer Award (Berlin) and was appointed by President of the Republic Napolitano Cavaliere della Repubblica; in 2017 she was appointed by President of the Republic Mattarella Ufficiale della Repubblica. Her works are published from Casa Ricordi.

An Italian film, television and theater actress, Isabella Ferrari made her film debut in 1983 with the generational cult film Sapore di mare. Still very young, for a few years she took part in to many cult comedies of the 1980s, before also trying her hand at dramatic roles; already starring in _Appuntamento to Liverpool _(1988) and Cronaca di un amore violato (1995), in 1995 she won the Coppa Volpi at the Venice International Film Festival for Romanzo di un giovane povero (best supporting actress). from then Isabella Ferrari established herself as one of the most beloved actresses among Italian audiences, including on television (especially thanks to the series Distretto di Polizia). Her most recent works include the films Arrivederci amore ciao (2006, nominated for a David di Donatello for best supporting actress), Saturno Contro and Un giorno Perfetto directed by Ferzan Ozpetek and _Caos calmo _(2008), as well as the play Il catalogo (2011-12) and È Stato la Mafia with Marco Travaglio. Her subsequent performances include those in the films _To Rome with love _by Woody Allen and E la chiamano estate by Paolo Franchi, both in 2012, _La grande bellezza (2013) by Paolo Sorrentino, Il venditore di medicine (2014) by Antonio Morabito, in 2015, Uno per tutti _by Mimmo Calopresti and La vita oscena by Renato De Maria, and Napoli velata (2017) by Ferzan Özpetek. Her other performances include those in the docu-film Diva! (2017), in the films, all from 2018, _Euphoria _by Valeria Golino, _Traveling with Adele _by Alessandro Capitani and _What are you doing to New Year's Eve? _by Filippo Bologna, in Andrea De Sica's _Baby 2 _(2019) and in Rolando Ravello's Per il tuo bene (2020).

Born to Tunis in '52, René de Ceccatty lives to Paris; he has published some 20 novels (including La Sentinelle du rêve, L'Or et la poussière, l'Accompagnement, Aimer, L'Hôte invisible, Un renoncement, Objet d'amour, Enfance, dernier chapitre, Mes années japonaises).

He has translated many Italian authors (Petrarch, Dante, Leopardi, Casanova, Saba, Moravia, Pasolini, Bonaviri, Penna, Naldini) and Japanese authors (in collaboration with Ryôji Nakamura: Ôé, Abé, Sôseki, Tanizaki, Mishima). He won the 2008 Mondello Prize for his translations of Moravia, the 2018 Elsa Morante Prize for his biography of the writer, and the 2018 Dante-Ravenna Prize for his translation of The Divine Comedy. He has written biographies of Pasolini, Maria Callas, Sibilla Aleramo, Moravia, and Elsa Morante. Five of his books have been translated into Italian so far: La stella rubino (Costa and Nolan), Sibilla Aleramo (Mondadori), La parola amore (Archinto), Alberto Moravia (Bompiani), _Amicizia e passione _(Archinto). She also writes extensively for the theater. He has worked with Claudia Cardinale, Isabelle Adjani, Anouk Aimée, and Adriana Asti, who confided in him her memories(Ricordare e dimenticare Portaparole 2016) brought to the stage from Andrée-Ruth Shammah in _Memorie di Adriana _at the 60th Spoleto Festival. She often works with Argentine director Alfredo Arias. Their plays have been staged in Italy(Penis of the Heart of a French Cat, Concha Bonita, Pale Object of Desire, Madame Pink). His collaboration with Giorgio Ferrara began twelve years ago to Paris with Solus ad solam, followed from Heaven and Blood, Albert and Moravia, Zaide. to Spoleto has come several times to presenting shows, including Anouk Aimée reads Moravia. Also for the Spoleto Festival, in 2017 he collaborated with Giorgio Ferrara on the dramaturgy of the new production ofopera _Don Giovanni _by Mozart, in 2018, on the drafting of the libretto ofopera _Minotauro _by Silvia Colasanti. He wrote the additional words for an unpublished augmented version of Auber´s Fra Diavolo created later in the world premiere at the Teatro dell´Opera in Rome in October 2017. In 2019, as a playwright, he collaborated to two new productions at the Spoleto Festival: Proserpine by Silvia Colasanti on a poem by Mary Shelley, directed by Giorgio Ferrara and _La ballata della serva Zerlina _by Hermann Broch with Adriana Asti and directed by Lucinda Childs.