Giorgio Battistelli
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Giorgio Battistelli | |
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 Battistelli in 2012 | |
| Born | Albano Laziale, Italy |
| Education | Conservatory of L'Aquila |
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Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.
Giorgio Battistelli was born in Albano Laziale, Italy.[citation needed]
He studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila,[citation needed] and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel.[1]
Career
By 2009, Battistelli had written nearly 20 operas, on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.[1]
From 1985 to 1986 he was host of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin.[citation needed] In 1994 he co-founded an improvisation group called Edgard Varèse, and an instrumental ensemble named Beat '72.
In October 2009, his opera Miracle in Brisbane was performed for the Brisbane Festival in Brisbane, Australia, directed by Rhoda Roberts and starring an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cast, including Aaron Fa'aoso, Deborah Mailman, Djakapurra Munyarrayan, and Casey Donovan.[2][3]
In November 2009 he was artistic director of the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme hosted by Aldeburgh Music in England.[1]
His opera CO2, based on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, premiered at La Scala opera house in Milan in 2015.[4][5]
Battistelli's opera Wake was premiered by the Birmingham Opera Company in March 2018 and is inspired by the story of Lazarus being brought back from the dead.[6]
He was artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana.
He has been[when?] director of the music section of the Venice Biennale.[citation needed]
His music is published by Ricordi and recordings available on Stradivarius.[citation needed]
