For the conferral of honorary citizenship on Mary de Rachewiltz, Marcello Fera will perform a series of his own pieces for solo violin, including Dedica, in its first performance

Marcello Fera: Perdue, Sensa Sciou,
George Apergis: Le Corps à Corps
Philipp Lamprecht, M.Fera: Sogno Forma
Marcello Fera: Sulla barca di Dioniso

 

Tragicomic burlesque

A show by Andrea Chenna based on Mozart and Da Ponte

What if Don Giovanni were a comic opera? 

This surprising, entertaining and cultured show invites the audience to rediscover Mozart's masterpiece with new eyes. Based on Da Ponte's letters and the original stories, this version of Don Giovanni reveals the comic roots of the myth: romantic duets that become farcical sketches, talking statues that seem like commedia dell'arte pranks, and a Leporello transformed into an irresistible Harlequin.

With only four actor-singers, one musician and the support of technology, the show mixes theatre, music and cabaret to recount, with lightness and intelligence, one of the great myths of the West. 

Don Giovanni Unplugged entertains with elegance and surprises with its irony, intertwining music, literature and theatre in a lively and unpredictable stage performance. Between duels, disguises and commedia dell'arte jokes, the audience finds itself immersed in a world where myth bends to a smile and tradition is renewed with lightness.

A brilliant theatrical experience, capable of enchanting even those who think they already know this story.

Marcello Fera solo:
Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera Solo:
Canti dal Silenzio
music by M.Fera, Anonimo, D.Gabrielli, J.S.Bach

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

Dances and songs from the oral tradition of ‘Le quattro Provincie’ arranged by Marcello Fera

Balkan Jazz from South Tyrol

DESTINI E PROFEZIE

Paolo Rotili Due meditazioni  (first performance)
Mario Garuti Cono in equilibrio sul suo vertice
Marcello Fera Sulla barca di Dioniso  (first performance)
Mauro Cardi Miroir 2
Tonino Battista Time maketh our Listening
more certain (…and giveth it more desire)

PAESE IN MUSICA - SOIRÉE DE CLÔTURE
Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

Marcello Fera solo: Canti dal Silenzio

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

Canti dal Silenzio
 

Marcello Fera explores silence as the origin of art in music and words. Followed by a discussion with the artist.

With the solo programme ‘Canti dal Silenzio’ by Merano-based composer and musician Marcello Fera, ‘ZeLT. European Centre for Literature and Translation’ is launching its new series: ’dire dare. Lezioni di vita e arte. Talks about art & life.’

Followed by a discussion with the artist, moderated by Christine Helfer.

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..

Bellanöva in concert

The traditional music duo formed by Stefano Valla and Daniele Scurati meets the violin and music writing of Marcello Fera and the cello of Nicola Segatta.

The concert is broadcast live on Radio 3 and, through Euroradio connections, in many countries in Europe
https://www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/iconcertidelquirinale

LADRE DI SABBIA

By and with Guido Barbieri.

It tells the story of Cape Verdean women forced to ‘steal’ sand from the archipelago's beaches to resell it to local construction companies. A way, often the only one possible, to survive the poverty to which many of them are condemned. The work revolves around ‘live’ images created by Gabriella Compagnone, one of Italy's best known and most appreciated sand artists, and uses a text written for the occasion by playwright Guido Barbieri. The musical part is entrusted to the quintet of the Calamani Philharmonic Orchestra conducted for the occasion by violinist and composer Marcello Fera, who has transcribed for string orchestra some of the most beautiful Cape Verdean mornas

Program:

Dani Caravalho: Tchintchirote
Teofilo Chantre: Roda Vida, No Amà
Mario Lucio: Maylen
Beleza: Talvez, Petit Pays
Frank Cavaquim: Mar Azul
Djack do Carmo: Flor Formosa
Marcello Fera: Taglio, All’intorno, Aframunda

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

Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi is a London-based experimental musician and artist with a Kongo family history. As part of the Merano Arte Aerolectics exhibition, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński invites Nkisi for a sound performance that resonates with elements of the exhibition. The name Nkisi refers to the fetishes widespread in much of central Africa, bearers of spiritual and non-material power. Her sound performances weave together experimentation with ancient musical techniques, liveness and the active involvement of the audience, who in dance, with their bodies, are invited to incorporate sound traditions that imply cultural resistance to the power structures of the global present.

Masimba Hwati - Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński 
Storming Breath. Soundings to Asue* (2025)

Masimba Hwati is an artist born in Mhondoro (Zimbabwe) who experiments with sound, sculpture, video and performance. With ‘found objects’ assembled on site, Hwati creates performable sculptures like wind instruments to which new life is breathed into with the breath of the musicians who manipulate them.

Masimba Hwati's performance is in combination with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński's exhibition Aerolectics 

The Adventures of Pinocchio, a sacred book
Igor Sibaldi unveils the treasures contained in Collodi's famous tale

Igor Sibaldi, a writer, philologist, translator and essayist whose breadth of interests and fields of enquiry go well beyond the aforementioned qualifications, proposes his reading of Collodi's text, which far from being considered ‘only’ a children's book or ‘only’ a literary masterpiece, is presented as a true sacred text, dense with biblical references and liberating indications for human existence rooted in ancient knowledge.

Igor Sibaldi, born of a Russian mother and an Italian father, was initially a translator for Mondadori of various works, especially by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, for whom he also wrote monographs and introductory essays. He then dedicated himself to his work as an author and to philosophical and theological research.
As an author, he has to his credit an endless bibliography that includes non-fiction, fiction and theatre. He is also known to the public for his oratorical skills, which are expressed in numerous lectures and seminars.

Gabriele Mirabassi and Simone Zanchini in concert:

Top meeting between two great virtuosi of their instrument, as well as protagonists of the international music scene. The musical transversality that distinguishes both of them allows them to express themselves with ease in both the world of jazz and classical music. In this duo, the sensuality of South American rhythms and the pulsating depth of old swing are mixed with the sonorities of a modern, contemporary jazz that is expressed in the compositional style of both
 

Twins in Heaven and on Earth
Riccardo Nova: Rudra Mantra, Kunti Mantra and Combat
(excerpts from Mahābhārata opera project)
for harp, percussion, electric guitar, electronics

From the famous epic and sacred book Mahabharata. A profound reflection on Hinduism as the basis from which the poem moves to offer a unique perspective on human existence and its myriad contradictory facets.

Composer Riccardo Nova reinterprets the Indian epic, bringing mantras, ancestral rhythms and contemporary sounds to the stage with effectiveness and balance. The work ‘Mahābhārata - Mantras, Fights and Threnody’ earned Riccardo Nova a nomination as a finalist for one of Europe's highest awards for composition, the ‘Prix Prince du Monaco’.

Canti dal Silenzio
by and with Marcello Fera
words as a double of musical discourse and the dual role of artistic director and musician

Program:

Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare,Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690]: Ricercare primo
From the Kroměříž Manuscript [1672]: Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga
All’intorno, Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt, Mnemo, Aframunda

LADRE DI SABBIA
The multimedia show Ladre di sabbia (Sand Thieves) tells - with the tools of words, images and music - the exciting story of the ‘slaves’ of Cape Verde. All proceeds will be donated, through a service of the Rotary Club of Foligno, to the NGO MEDICI CON L'AFRICA CUAMM, the largest Italian organisation for the promotion and protection of the health of African populations.

Program:
Dani Caravalho: Tchintchirote
Teofilo Chantre: Roda Vida, No Amà
Mario Lucio: Maylen
Beleza: Talvez, Petit Pays
Frank Cavaquim: Mar Azul
Djack do Carmo: Flor Formosa
Marcello Fera: Taglio, All’intorno, Aframunda

Word and Music

Canti dal silenzio by Marcello Fera.

Followed by a dialogue between the author and Maestro Vanni Moretto