Giuseppe Sinopoli on the 25th anniversary of his death

Conductor, composer, intellectual and scholar of mythology and antiquity: 25 years ago Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946-2001), a central figure in European musical culture, died.

The Ministry of Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, through the Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin, promoted SINOPOLIANA, the celebrations dedicated to Giuseppe Sinopoli in Germany, recognising his fundamental role in the artistic and intellectual dialogue between Italia and the German-speaking world.

SINOPOLIANA is conceived as an annually distributed European festival comprising concerts, symposia, exhibitions and educational initiatives. The celebrations aim not only to honour the memory of Giuseppe Sinopoli, but also to reactivate his intellectual and artistic legacy in contemporary cultural discourse.

The programme has a truly European perspective, taking place in Germany (Berlin and Dresden), Rome, Venice and London.

In Rome, Sinopoli directed the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1983 to 1987. He moved to East Germany shortly after the fall of the Iron Curtain and led the Staatskapelle Dresden from 1992 until his death. In 2000, Sinopoli became the first conductor in Italia to perform the entire cycle of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung at the Bayreuth Festival.