In recent years part of academic musical research has focused on the relationship between work, technologies and new compositional languages. The International Symposium Artistic Research, Higher Education and Technological Innovation in Opera, an international academic conference where teachers, researchers, composers and professionals try to understand, through study and concert, how the work is changing. Inside the project “Music Theater and New Technologies”, Thursday 26 March 2026 at 20:00, at the Casa Zerilli-Marimò is therefore scheduled the concert La guitare à l’opéra: histoires sans paroles, dedicated to the use of guitar in the contemporary opera context.
The concert, presented by Alessandro Borin, offers music from seven Italian composers – Gianluca Baldi, Gilberto Cappelli, Marco Nodari, Luigi Sammarchi, Roberto Scarcella Perino, Roberto Tagliamacco and Luca Tessadrelli – active in academic and contemporary music. The program focuses on songs without voice, built as exclusively instrumental narrative forms. In this case the guitar is not accompaniment but a central element, with a use that may include extensive techniques and, in some cases, interaction with electronic devices.
To perform the songs will be guitarists Alessandra Lucchi and Alberto Mesirca, both engaged in the diffusion of contemporary repertoire as well as classic. In Italy this type of production finds space especially in conservatories, research centers and specialized festivals such as the Venice Biennale or Milan Musica, where experimentation on musical theatre – even without voice – is a consistent development line. Booking is required to attend the concert.
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