PUCCINI International Opera Composition Course

 

'PUCCINI International Opera Composition Course'

Summer Seminar 2021

July 19th to 31th - Lucca, Italy

Come and study how to write opera in Lucca, the city of Giacomo Puccini

COURSE GOALS

Participants will get to a deeper understanding of the various aspects of composing for opera theatre.

- At the end of the course, each participant must submit a complete pre-project for a new chamber opera, writing a section or a full score (at least 25 minutes)

- The best projects will be selected to be performed as mise-en-scene at the ‘PUCCINI Chamber Opera Festival 2022’ in collaboration with Teatro del Giglio of Lucca

- All scores produced will be published and recorded video/audio by EMA Vinci

Three scholarships will be assigned after a selection by the committee of the course.

- ‘Giacomo Puccini’ € 500,00

- ‘Alfredo Catalani’ € 500,00

- ‘Luigi Boccherini’ € 500,00

GUEST ARTISTS

- Alessandro Solbiati, Composer and Composition Teacher of the 'Conservatorio G. Verdi', Milan

- Massimo Luconi, Stage Director

TEACHERS

- Opera composition: Girolamo Deraco (Composer, Artistic Director of Cluster)

- ‘Traditional operatic and contemporary singing’ Maria Elena Romanazzi (Soprano)

- Analysis of ‘La Métamorphose – Micheal Levinas’ Antonio Agostini (Composer, Guitarist)

- ‘Graphic scores for opera’: Luigi Esposito (Composer, Visual artist, Sound designer, Performer/Pianist and Writer)

- Analysis of ‘Opera Arias, a tile in the Mosaic’: Stefano Teani (Composer, Conductor, Performer Pianist)

- ‘The librettist, the unknown': Gabriele Micheli (Librettist, Pianist, Conductor)

- 'Voices form the past': Giuseppe Nicolò (Gramophones Collector, TV Presenter, Writer and Librettist)

INFO

For further information (travel & lodging, classes and program details, food discounts...)

Cristina Rosamilia: ioccpuccini@gmail.com

The course is organized by CLUSTER – Compositori interpreti del presente in collaboration with: Fondazione Zeffirelli, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca, Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, EMA Vinci Produzioni discografiche (audio-video), editoriali ed artistiche.

Media partner: Ecce Musica - Magazine

Puccini International Opera Composition Course