PUCCINI International Opera Composition Course 2022

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Programma Completo

PROJECT

The PUCCINI International Opera Composition Course is addressed to composers (both with or without an academic degree) willing to investigate thoroughly all compositional techniques in use in opera writing today, focusing both on the Italian tradition and on the genre’s contemporary international developments. The course’s aim is to hand down the great opera tradition, having as a target the creation of new operas, bridging the past and the future in a new and enthralling vision.

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 for voice and piano (at least 25 minutes)
• The best projects will be selected to be performed as mise-en- scene at the ‘PUCCINI Chamber Opera Festival 2023’ in collaboration with Teatro del Giglio of Lucca
• All scores produced will be published and recorded video/audio by EMA Vinci

APPLICANTS SELECTION

Applicants must submit the following materials for selection:

• CV
• Project scheme of a chamber opera for max 1 voice and piano
• Full score and audio file of an orchestral or chamber composition*
• Full score or voice/piano score and audio file of a vocal composition* (*midi files can be accepted)
• All materials must be e-mailed to ioccpuccini@gmail.com?
• Submission deadline May, 31st 2022
• Eligible composers will be contacted by June, 10th 2022

Committee selection:

• Francesco Cipriano (President of Cluster)
• Girolamo Deraco
• Antonio Agostini

Knowledge of English or Italian language is required. A minimum of 4 eligible composers is required for the course to start.

CLASSES

- 13 days of classes?
- group and individual classes
- lectures and workshop by Guest Artists

Main subjects?

• Opera composition: Girolamo Deraco

Lectures?

• Invited Composer: Nicola Sani
• Singing: Maria Elena Romanazzi
• Analysis of opera: Antonio Agostini
• Analysis of arias: Stefano Teani
• Libretto: Gabriele Micheli
• Listening: Giuseppe Nicolo?

Workshops

• The Stage: Alessandro Bianchi
• Writing: Roberto Giurano

CONTENTS

Opera composition: Girolamo Deraco
Individual classes: elements of vocal composition?, elements of orchestration?, elements of playwriting for opera

Group classes?

• Composition of operatic elements?
• Chamber Opera, Opera elements of analysis, Musical perception

Lectures and Workshp by Guest Artists?

• ‘How to finalize an opera project’: Girolamo Deraco
• ‘My Opera’: visiting composer Nicola Sani (Composer and Artistic Director Accademia Chigiana - Siena)
• ‘Traditional operatic and contemporary singing’ Maria Elena Romanazzi (Soprano, Performer)
• Analysis of ‘Infinite now, opera in six act – Chaya Czernowin’ Antonio Agostini (Composer, Guitarist)
• 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 Nicolo? (Gramophones Collector, TV Presenter, Writer and Librettist.)
• ‘The stage’ (workshop): Alessandro Bianchi (Actor, Stage Director, Trainer)
• 'Writing, the ancient school' (workshop): Roberto Giurano (President of the Italian Amanuensis School.)

VENUES

This year the beginning of course, August 18th to 20th, will take place in San Daniele del Friuli (north of Italy) in order to visit two special places: the Civica Biblioteca Guarneriana that has ancient Gregorian books, and the Scriptorium Foroiuliense, an amanuensis school that theachs old tecquiniches about writing.

The second part of the course, August 21st to 30th, will take place in Lucca, the city of Giacomo Puccini - Lucca: Complesso di San Micheletto (Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Lucca) and ‘Giacomo Puccini’ Foundation - Lucca.

COSTS

Participants: € 1.600,00
Auditors: € 300,00
Travel, accommodation and food are not included in costs, excepted trip and accomodation from Lucca to San Daniele del Friuli and back.

SCHOLARSHIPS

Request a scholarship (please specify a motivation) together with your submission email. Three scholarships will be assigned by the committee of the course after a selection.

• - ‘Giacomo Puccini’ € 500,00
• - ‘Alfredo Catalani’ € 500,00
• - ‘Luigi Boccherini’ € 500,00

ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS

Lucca is an important music cultural and tourist destination. Very important composers were born in the city, such as: Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Boccherini, Alfredo Catalani and many others. Lucca is easily accessible by train from international airports in Rome and Milan, or can be reached from regional airports in Pisa, Florence, with trains and buses connections. Lucca is also close to many touristic places such as: Pisa (30 minutes), Florence (1.5 hours), Cinque Terre (2 hours), Siena (2.5 hours), Rome (3 hours), and Viareggio (30 minutes - the ‘beach’ of Lucca). The course will include a free entrance at the Puccini Museum - Casa Natale, Lucca (the house where Giacomo Puccini was born) and the Museum Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli, Florence.

INFO

For further information (travel & lodging, food discounts...) Cristina Rosamilia: ioccpuccini@gmail.com