Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian

Italy

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 composer of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

. A native of Albano Laziale

Albano Laziale

Albano Laziale is a comune in the province of Rome, on the Alban Hills, in Latium, central Italy. It is also a suburb of Rome, which is 25 km distant. It is bounded by other communes of Castel Gandolfo, Rocca di Papa, Ariccia and Ardea. Located in the Castelli Romani area of Lazio...

 (province of Rome

Rome

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), he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila

L'Aquila

L'Aquila is a city and comune in central Italy, both the capital city of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L'Aquila. , it has a population of 73,150 inhabitants, but has a daily presence in the territory of 100,000 people for study, tertiary activities, jobs and tourism...

 and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel, Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His latest project

An Inconvenient Truth (opera)

An Inconvenient Truth is an Italian opera by Giorgio Battistelli set to premiere at La Scala in 2013. It is based on Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth....

, based on Al Gore

Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

's An Inconvenient Truth

An Inconvenient Truth

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, is due to open at La Scala

La Scala

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 in 2013.

In 1994 he founded with some friends the improvisation group entitled Edgard Varèse and an instrumental ensemble named Beat '72. From 1985 to 1986 he was host of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst in Berlin

Berlin

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. In 1990 he won the SIAE for an opera and in 1993 the Cervo Prize for contemporary music.

He was also artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano

Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte

The Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte is an annual Italian summer school and musical festival for young singers, actors, musicians, conductors and composers. It was set up in Montepulciano in 1976 by Hans Werner Henze, a string of whose works have been premiered at it.Productions are worked on in the...

, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana. He is currently director of the music section of the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

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.

He is the current leader of the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme hosted by Aldeburgh Music.

His music is published by Ricordi

Casa Ricordi

Casa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...

.

Stage works

Title	Format	Libretto and source	Premiere
Experimentum Mundi	Opera di musica immaginistica, 60'	the composer, after the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert	May 1981; Teatro Olimpico, Rome
Linzer Stahloper			Sep 1982; Hauptplatz, Linz
Jules Verne	Fantasia da camera, 60'		Sep 1987; Strasbourg
Aphrodite	Monodramma di costumi antichi, 50'	after the novel Aphrodite–mœurs antiques by Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs Pierre Louÿs was a French poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection."-Life:...	Jul 1988; Villa Massimo Villa Massimo Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo , is a German art institute in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.... , Rome
Combattimento di Ettore e Achille	Représentation de corps et de mémoire, 60'	the composer, after texts of Homer, Tirso de Molina, Goethe, Schiller, Shakespeare, Du Bellay, Racine, Stazio, Quintus, Monti, Leopardi, Foscolo, Chiabrera, Ariosto, Catullo, Ronsard, Valéry	Sep 1989; Festival Musica, Strasbourg
Keplers Traum	Kammeroper, 60'	the composer, loosely after Kepler	Sep 1990; Brucknerhaus Brucknerhaus The Brucknerhaus is a festival and congress centre in Linz, Austria named after the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner Its construction took place from 1969 to 1973. It opened on 23 March 1974.... , Linz
Teorema	Parabola in musica in 2 atti (16 scene), 70'	the composer, loosely after the film by Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...	Mar 1992; Teatro Comunale, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is an annual opera festival which was founded in April 1933 by conductor Vittorio Gui with the aim of presenting contemporary and forgotten operas in visually dramatic productions. It was the first music festival in Italy. The first opera presented was Verdi's early...
Frau Frankenstein	Monodramma del Prometeo moderno, 35'	the composer, after Mary Shelley Mary Shelley Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus . She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley...	Mar 1993; Berliner Festspiele Berliner Festspiele The Berliner Festspiele arts center brings together a variety of arts and culture events under one roof each year in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1951. Throughout the year, festivals, program series, and individual events enrich the cultural scene of the city...
Prova d’Orchestra	Teatro di musica		Nov 1995; Strasbourg
The Cenci	Music theatre	the composer and Nick Ward, after the setting by Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, more well-known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director...  of the verse drama The Cenci The Cenci, A Tragedy, in Five Acts is a verse drama in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley written in the summer of 1819, and inspired by a real Italian family, the Cencis . Shelley composed the play at Rome and at Villa Valsovano near Livorno, from May to August 5, 1819...  by Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...	Jul 1997; Almeida Opera Festival, London
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit	Musiktheater in 5 scenes, 70'	Michael Klügl, after the novel The Discovery of Slowness The Discovery of Slowness is a novel by Sten Nadolny, written under a double conceit: first, as a novelization of the life of British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, and second as a hymn of praise to "slowness," a quality which Nadolny's fictional Franklin possesses in abundance...  by Sten Nadolny Sten Nadolny Sten Nadolny, is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also both writers.-Life:...	Oct 1997; Theater Bremen Theater Bremen Theater Bremen is the collective name for four auditoria in the city of Bremen - these are the Oper Bremen, the Schauspiel Bremen, the Tanztheater Bremen and the MoKS Bremen....
Impressions d'Afrique	Music theatre	Lavaudant and Loayza, after texts by Roussel, Blake, Dickens, Morgenstern, Rabelais, Saba, Tasso	May 2000; Teatro Goldoni/ Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is an annual opera festival which was founded in April 1933 by conductor Vittorio Gui with the aim of presenting contemporary and forgotten operas in visually dramatic productions. It was the first music festival in Italy. The first opera presented was Verdi's early...
Auf den Marmorklippen	Musikalische visionen, 100'	Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten is an Italian writer, editor, translator and manager of arts organizations. In 2000 he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic...  and the composer, after the novel On the Marble Cliffs On the Marble Cliffs is a novella by Ernst Jünger published in 1939 describing the upheaval and ruin of a serene agricultural society...  by Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger was a German writer. In addition to his novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience during World War I. Some say he was one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I...	Mar 2002; Nationaltheater Mannheim Nationaltheater Mannheim The present National Theatre Mannheim , which dates from 1957, is a theatre and opera company in Mannheim, Germany with a variety of performance spaces...
The Embalmer	Monodramma giocoso da camera, 70'	Renzo Rosso	Jul 2002; Almeida Opera Festival, London
Der Herbst des Patriarchen	Opera in 6 scenes, 110'	Gotthart Kuppel, after El otoño del patriarca The Autumn of the Patriarch The Autumn of the Patriarch is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975.A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator... by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...	Jun 2004; Theater Bremen Theater Bremen Theater Bremen is the collective name for four auditoria in the city of Bremen - these are the Oper Bremen, the Schauspiel Bremen, the Tanztheater Bremen and the MoKS Bremen....
Richard III	Dramma musicale in 2 acts, 150'	Ian Burton, after the play Richard III (play) Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified...  by Shakespeare	Jan 2005; Flemish Opera, Antwerp
Miracolo a Milano	Music theatre, 90'	the composer, loosely after the novel Totò il buono by Cesare Zavattini Cesare Zavattini Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.-Brief biography:...  and its film adaption Miracolo a Milano Miracle in Milan Miracle in Milan is a 1951 Italian film directed by Vittorio de Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel Totò il Buono. The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnabò.The film, told as a neo-realist... by Vittorio De Sica Vittorio de Sica Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....	Nov 2007; Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia
The Fashion	Opera Mondana in 12 scenes, 90'	Bob Goody	Jan 2008; Deutsche Oper am Rhein Deutsche Oper am Rhein The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company.... , Düsseldorf
Divorzio all'Italiana	Azione musicale in 23 tavole per il crepuscolo della famiglia, 90'	the composer, loosely after the film by Pietro Germi Pietro Germi Pietro Germi was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. Germi was born in Genoa, Liguria, to a lower-middle class family. He was a messenger and briefly attended nautical school before deciding on a career in acting.He studied acting and directing at Rome's Centro Sperimentale di...	Sep 2008; Opéra national de Lorraine Opéra national de Lorraine Opéra national de Lorraine is an opera company and opera house located in the city of Nancy in the French province of Lorraine. Formerly named the Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine, it was given the status of "national opera" in 2006.... , Nancy