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con Leonetta Bentivoglio e Lidia Bramani
Can 18th-century masterpieces illuminate our present by mapping out feelings and eros that are still highly relevant today? Through the trilogy of operas created with librettist Lorenzo from Ponte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart proved that they can. In the prodigious body of art and thought formed by The Marriage of Figaro, from Don Giovanni and from_ Così fan tutte_, the composer prophetically plumbed every aspect of love, addressing such themes as violence against women, the drives toward infidelity, the trap into which those who "love too much" fall and the entangling bullying of dongiovannismo. He prospected the possibility of being in love simultaneously with more than one person, the taste of sex in the third and fourth ages, the legitimacy of generational mismatches in the pairing of couples, the choice of being single while avoiding emotional involvements, the possibility of a monogamous ecstasy that does not introduce third parties, the thrills of clandestine lovers refractory to the mystique of transparency, the propensity for bisexuality, and more, in an inexhaustible observation of the richness and "imperfection" that characterizes the love universe.
In the book to two signatures E Susanna non vien - Amore e sesso in Mozart, published from Feltrinelli, Leonetta Bentivoglio and Lidia Bramani explore the gears of that miraculous cosmos from the point of view of a vision of love that is psychologically profound and very modern in its prismatic facets. In keeping with the program of the Spoleto Festival, which in recent editions has welcomed Giorgio Ferrara's Mozartian stagings, the authors of the volume meet with the audience to converse about the passionate affective investigation carried out by the enlightened and formidable theatrical and musical project, relating it to the context of Austrian Freemasonry and the biography of Mozart himself, as evidenced by his epistolary, his library and his acquaintances. The journey is accompanied from short live musical interventions.
with Leonetta Bentivoglio and Lidia Bramani
He is an essayist and journalist. He has been writing since the 1980s in the Culture and Entertainment pages of Repubblica, covering classical music, opera opera, dance and literature. His books include La danza contemporanea (Longanesi, 1985), Il teatro di Pina Bausch (Ubulibri, 1991) and Il mio Verdi (Castelvecchi, 2013). to Pina Bausch also dedicated the volume Vieni, danza con me (Barbes, 2008), translated into French and German. In 2003 he edited Wim Wenders' book Una volta (Socrates). For Garzanti's Great Books he selected and translated Thomas Hardy's short stories(The Three Strangers and Other Tales). In 2009, for Barbes, she published Corpi senza menzogna, about the theater of Pippo Delbono. She is the author with Lidia Bramani of E Susanna non vien - Amore e sesso in Mozart, published in 2014 from Feltrinelli. In 2015, for Clichy, she wrote Pina Bausch - A Saint on Skates to wheels, which went through three editions.
He completed his studies to Milan, graduating in piano at the G.Verdi Conservatory with Riccardo Risaliti and graduating in Greek Language and Literature at the State University with Dario Del Corno. Also at the Conservatory, he studied oboe and composition. The awarding of the Siemens musicological prize, in Germany, in 1993, for a research on the relationship between music and ancient Greek myth, started his collaboration with Claudio Abbado. In 1998 the first version of the volume entitled Claudio Abbado, Music over Berlin, was published by Bompiani. Conversation with Lidia Bramani, republished in an updated edition in 2000 and translated into several languages. In 2005 he published Mozart freemason and revolutionary, published from Bruno Mondadori, already reprinted several times. He edited and translated for Il Saggiatore Canti di viaggio, the autobiography of Hans Werner Henze (2006). Of 2014 is the book written to four hands with Leonetta Bentivoglio for Feltrinelli, E susanna non vien. Love and Sex in Mozart, while in late 2015 Bompiani published Claudio Abbado. Music flows to Berlin. Conversation with Lidia Bramani, a rewriting of reflections with the Maestro, to which is added a new and substantial unpublished part written with him before his death.