Athens and Melo in Baricco's play for the RomaEuropaFestival
From 6 to 22 the 18th edition of the MiTo Festival, featuring symphonic and chamber music concerts in the two cities
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The tale of the war between Athens and Melo in Baricco's performance for the RomaEuropaFestival will certainly offer many insights into current affairs. Together with him and actresses Stefania Rocca and Valeria Solarino, composer Giovanni Sollima will conduct the 100 Cellos. Milan and Turin are in musical dialogue, for the 18th edition of the MiTo Festival; while in Verona we hear great European symphonic formations.
Rome
On the 11th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica the performance with music "Thucydides. Athens versus Melo", with Alessandro Baricco - who also curates the adaptation and direction, Stefania Rocca, Valeria Solarino and the 100 cellos led by Giovanni Sollima. This is the story of the clash between the Athenians and the inhabitants of the island of Melo, in the Cyclades. A poetic, sharp and very topical reflection on what Justice and Law are in the face of the relationship between aggressor and aggressed, weak and strong, winner and vanquished.
One of the first shows of the 39th RomaEuropaFestival, which continues until 17 November with one hundred projects including music, dance, theatre, digital arts and creation for children, in twenty spaces in the capital.
Milan - Turin
From 6 to 22 the 18th edition of the MiTo Festival will take place in the two cities with symphonic and chamber concerts. Among the first appointments, on the 8th at the Teatro alla Scala the Filarmonica is conducted by Chailly with a programme that opens with two fundamental figures of post-World War II music: Luciano Berio and Wolfgang Rihm. Alongside Berio's four miniatures and Rihm's great orchestral fresco, an early 20th-century classic, Maurice Ravel, with the two orchestral suites from the ballet Daphnis et Chloé.
Verona
On the 8th at the Teatro Filarmonico the 33rd Settembre dell'Accademia kicks off, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in the only Italian date of the European tour. Conducted by Manacorda, music by Busoni, Mahler, Dvořák. The Festival, dedicated to symphonic music, continues until 29 September; upcoming concerts include the Dresden Staatskapelle on the 13th with its newly appointed conductor Daniele Gatti; and on the 18th the S. Cecilia Orchestra conducted by Noseda, with pianists Lisiecki and Piemontesi.
