The Biennale Contemporary Music Festival in Venice
At the reopened and renovated Lido in Paris one of the great musical comedies, 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort'
In Venice to listen to new music, at the Biennale Festival of Contemporary Music, founded in 1930 by legendary figures such as Mario Labroca and Alfredo Casella. We will attend the opening musical procession, from the Ponte dei Giardini to the Giardino delle Vergini; and we will also go to the Isola Misteriosa,: a mystical musical journey to an island in the Lagoon, shrouded in mystery.
In Paris, on the other hand, one of the great 1960s musical comedies, 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort', of which we remember the famous film starring Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.
Venice
Dall’11 al 25 ottobre il 69° Festival di Musica Contemporanea della Biennale. La nuova direttrice è la trentacinquenne compositrice Caterina Barbieri. Il programma – che si apre con un corteo musicale d’acqua, dal Ponte dei Giardini al Giardino delle Vergini - affonda le sue radici nella musica elettronica e nel minimalismo, ma si dirama in molteplici direzioni. Ascolteremo così aree musicali e autori diversi dai precedenti Festival; e andremo (il 19) anche nell’Isola Misteriosa, un viaggio mistico musicale, con interventi sonori e performativi site-specific in un’isola della Laguna. Ascolteremo dalla musica elettronica, drone e minimalista all’ ambient, glitch e computer-music; il folk cosmogonico, la sintesi tra maqam arabo, jazz e poesia Sufi di Miniawy, lo sperimentalismo afrofuturista con Actress, Nkisi e DeForrest Brown Junior, l’hyperpop multidisciplinare di Ecco2k e le sperimentazioni tra free-jazz, impro-noise e elettronica di Toral e Mabe Fratti.
Another novelty is the LSD (La Stella Dentro) Centre, in the Sale d'Armi dell'Arsenale, a space dedicated to deep listening, exchange and encounter, where the public mingles with the artists to meet, rest and dream; live performances, listening sessions and debates, as well as audiovisual installations by Meredith Monk and Maxime Denuc.
Paris
At the Théâtre du Lido until 11 January, the musical comedy "Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, based on the famous 1967 film of the same name by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac, is on stage. The music is by Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars for "That Summer in '42", "Yentl" and "The Thomas Crown Affair" and was nominated for numerous awards; two hundred soundtracks, including for "The Swimming Pool" with Schneider and Delon, and "Never Say Never" with Sean Connery, five Grammys. Demy won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Les parapluies de Cherbourg".
