Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardi double bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

Il Santo folle
Francesco, il Sultano, una tenda sulle rive del Nilo
A scenic work for an actress, bass, baritone, strings, mixed choir, and percussion

Text: Guido Barbieri
Music: Marcello Fera

Astra Lanz actress
Nicola Zambon Baritone
Ludovico Dal Pra Bass
Marco Zanco percussionist and fencing master

Conductus Ensemble
Georgia Privitera, Flavia Succhiarelli violin
Ida Ostini viola
Federica Ragnini cello
Silvio Gabardidouble bass

Choir Heinrich Schütz
Solo Violin  and conductor Marcello Fera

Organizing Committee of the Ravenna Festival
in co-production with the International Festival of Sacred Music in Pordenone, the Regional Festival of Sacred Music in Bolzano and Trento, and the “Altre Armonie” Festival in Macerata, organized by Milano Classica
Premiere

J. S. Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (version for string trio)

A masterpiece of keyboard music (and music in general), the Goldberg Variations are presented here in a version for string trio. This composition, completely unusual for Bach, who had rarely written a theme and variations before, is said to have been written for the young virtuoso pianist Goldberg to help his patron and commissioner of the variations, Count Keyserling, fall asleep. A circular work made up of golden proportions both in its overall structure and in the individual variations, which sometimes (as in the Quodlibet) echo German folklore. ‘It is music, in short, that knows neither beginning nor end, music without a real climax and without a real resolution’ (Glenn Gould).

J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048

Jean Sibelius: Canzonetta, Op. 62a

Vanni Moretto: Ex silentio (Italian premiere)

W. A. Mozart: Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K. 271 “Jeunehomme”

This program could be considered a small compendium of the different ways in which the individual elements that make up an orchestra can interact and relate to each other.

In Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto, written for nine strings (divided into groups of three) and basso continuo, the individual components are called upon to engage in a dense concertante dialogue in which the responsibility for both the solo passages and the dense, pulsating texture that sustains and drives the entire composition is shared equally by all. After this sort of incandescent fireball, which, except for a brief central suspension, releases energy with equal intensity throughout its development, we move on to Jean Sibelius's ‘Canzonetta’, taken from the incidental music for the play ‘Kuolema’ (death in Finnish). Here, it is the power of the melody that shapes the writing of the piece, organizing the sections of the ensemble into singing roles, alternately entrusted to the first violins and cellos, and accompanying roles. The rarefied atmosphere, the pace, and the “color” of the sound prepare the audience for the third piece on the program: Ex Silentio by Vanni Moretto. Presented here in its Italian premiere, this piece, commissioned from the Milanese composer in 2024 by the Opéra-Théâtre de Clermont-Ferrand, features a new distribution of roles dictated by the form of the concerto for solo instrument and orchestra.  The orchestra opens the piece by offering a landscape with uncertain contours from which the solo violin draws the elements to shape form and meaning; on the one hand, the world, on the other, the individual experience that interprets and shapes it in its own interiority and determines its narrative. Another piece for solo instrument and orchestra, this time no longer for strings alone, concludes the program. This is Mozart's Piano Concerto K. 271, “Jeunehomme.” In the evolution of this form, to which Mozart made an enormous contribution, the Jeunehomme represents a decisive turning point between the style of the Salzburg period and that of the Viennese period. The soloist dialogues with the orchestra from the very first bars, according to a concept that clearly goes beyond the juxtaposition of soloist and orchestra, intertwining the musical discourse in a logic of continuous exchange. The protagonist is precisely this dialogue, rich in ideas, surprises, digressions, and different emotional states. It is a hierarchically mobile dynamic to which the soloist and orchestra contribute with equal force of necessity.

Don Giovanni Nicola Zambon
Leporello Pasquale Greco
Don Ottavio Carlos Negrín López
Donna Elvira Floriana Cicio
Donna Anna Mirjam Gruber
Commendatore e Masetto Ludovico Dal Pra
Zerlina Paola Valentina Molinari

Coro | Chor  Männergesangsverein
Maestro del coro | Choreinstudierung Josef Sagmeister
Orchestra di scena | Bühnenorchester Orchester der Musikfreunde
Corpo di ballo | Tanzkompanie Collettivo Clochart
Coreografa | Choreografin Hillary Anghileri
Maestro collaboratore I Korrepetitor Luca Sartori
 
Ensemble Conductus & Ensemble Windkraft
Clavicembalo | Cembalo Carmen Leoni
Violoncello Federica Ragnini
Violino di spalla | Konzertmeisterin Veronika Egger

Direttore | Dirigent Marcello Fera

Luci | Lichtgestaltung Marco Comuzzi
Scenografia | Bühnenbild Iris Da Ruos - Beatrice Zucca (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera)

Costumi | Kostüme Alessandro Osemont

Direttore di scena I Inspizient Michele Pignolo
Assistente alla regia I Regieassistentin Emma Bez

Regia | Regie Silvia Piccollo

Marcello Fera: Diaphonia, Le due vite – suite, In risposta, Segno, Ode 
Claudio Monteverdi / M.Fera: Lidia Spina
M. Fera: Interludio alla voce 
Francesco Landini: Selvagia Fera
M. Fera: Perdue, Sensa Sciou, Siebzieg Karat, That's it, La sacra conversazione
Ali Ulvi Baradan: Yemeni bağlamış telli başına

Henry Purcell - Fantasia n. 13 Upon one note
Marcello Fera – Hi Jack
M.Fera - Conductusphonia
M.Fera - Noname
M.Fera - Studietto per quattro
M.Fera - Follephonia
M.Fera -Ninna per Olga
Sirio Restani da anonimo - Mazurca d' Doro
M.Fera – La sacra conversazione
Djack do Carmo (arr. M.Fera) - Flor Formosa

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

Le due vite | Die zwei Leben

Melologue by Marcello Fera for actress and string trio, text from Autobiografie della leggera by Danilo Montaldi

DIE ZWEI LEBEN (in German)
06.05.2025 - 8 p.m. Premiere]
09.05.2025 - 8 p.m.
11.05.2025 - 6 p.m.

LE DUE VITE (in italian)
14.05.2025 - ore 20. [Premi18.05.2025 - ore 18.

14.05.2025 - 8 p.m. [Premiere]
16.05.2025 - 8 p.m.
18.05.2025 - 6 p.m..

Marcello Fera - Follephonia Doppia for violin, vibraphone and strings
Albert Doppler - Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra
Francis Poulenc - Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra

in cooperation with Musikschule Meran
https://deutsche-bildung.provinz.bz.it/de/musikschulen/home

Concert presenting the CD Piccoli Arcani, music by Marcello Fera

Private concert by invitation only

Marcello Fera: Follephonia (from Corelli)
Claudio Monteverdi / M. Fera: Lamento d’Arianna
Antonio Cesti / M.Fera: Non si parli più d’amore 
Guido Caccini / C.Lugo Amarilli
C.Monteverdi / C.Lugo: Cruda Amarilli
C.Monteverdi / M.Fera: Lidia spina
Marcello Fera: Luña cornua 
Claudio Lugo: Tre canzoni in genovese barocco

Guido Parteli "Il Sovversivo di Sfruz"

All the Badness of the 20th Century in One Life

dramatic cantata in eleven scenes and two epilogues

There is something unknowable and at the same time familiar about a piece of music. Like in a mystery to be deciphered. Marcello Fera presents with this programme his new CD Piccoli Arcani
(Small Arcana)

Music by
Marcello Fera
 

Beyond the surface of appearance, verse retains something of the poetry that surrounds and inhabits us. We know it and therefore re-know it expressed in words. In this concert, the poetics of Tormis' music and the setting to music of Roberta Dapunt's poetry

Ottorino Respighi: Antiche arie e danze per liuto – Terza suite
Traditional (arr. M.Fera): Levar di tavola
Velijo Tormis: Melancholy Songs  (italian premiere)
Marcello Fera : Della carne e della lingua, five songs on lyrics by Roberta Dapunt  (italian premiere)

The Nibelungen manuscripts found just a stone's throw from Italy, Wagner's visit to Rossini, who as a boy was known as 'the little German'; or the strange entanglements between Nordic myths and the Mediterranean

G. Rossini: Il signor Bruschino - Ouverture
W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Ouverture
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Das Kreuz an der Ostsee – Ouverture
R. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
G. Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Ouverture

The worlds of childhood
I. Stravinsky - Eight miniatures for instruments (version for strings by M. Fera)
Anonymous - Symphony of Toys
W.A.Mozart - Galimathias Musicum
M.Ravel - Ma mère l'oye. Five children's pieces inspired by the tales of Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy and Madame Leprince de Beaumont. (version for strings by M. Fera)

Dedicated to Christian Martinelli
Shigeru Umebayashi - Yumeji's theme and Icaros of the Shipibo people (Amazonia) for Christian Martinelli with a video projection of his works by Marcello Fera and Andrea Pizzini
W.A.Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K 414
I. Strawinsky - Pulcinella, suite for orchestra

Performance by Conductus musicians in front of the works in the exhibition incontrare Christian Martinelli begegnen

Duration: 30 min