From Hannigan to Mariza, the Spoleto Festival looks to women

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 10 - The conductor, soprano, director and pioneer of a new way of understanding music, Barbara Hannigan. The heir to the great tradition of Fado, Mariza. And then world music star Angelique Kidjo, with her cry for the rebirth of African culture; the tribute to Trisha Brown, the icon of post-modern dance who disappeared five years ago; Jeanne Candel, who signs Le Crocodile trompeur from the baroque opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, but also the musical epic Demi-Véronique; up to choreographers AnneTeresa De Keersmaeker and Blanca Li. It will be an edition that places the women who have given new impulses to artistic expression at the center of the 65 / o Spoleto Festival deiDue Mondi, the second led by Monique Veaute,scheduled from 24 June to 10 July with the subtitle '' the evolution of forms ".

    "I followed three lines in designing the 2020-2022 program", says the artistic director, "very optimistic about the future" and about the pandemic, in what she anticipates will be only a "first episode" of the presentation of the general program. "The first film I have dedicated myself to - he says - is the Music of the two worlds.

   Then there is the Voice of women and finally the New ways of narrating music. "Between intertwining, collaborations and fruitful contaminations, we therefore start from the two orchestras in residence, with the grand inaugural concert in Piazza Duomo entrusted to Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra ( but with the Corodell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia) and ends with Antonio Pappano on the podium with di Santa Cecilia and the star Barbara Hannigan in Knoxville: Summer of 1915 by Samuel Barber (three of his concerts scheduled in Spoleto).

    For the prose, Thomas Ostermeier , European star of the region much loved in Italy, who at the Festival dei Due Mondi presents a preview of History of Violence from the autobiographical tale by Édouard Louis. (ANSA).