(ANSA) – OSAKA, AUG 14 – The Italy Pavilion’s theatre at Expo 2025 Osaka has hosted the show ‘Invisible Cities: Piano and Calligraphic Performance’ for three days.
The event paid homage to author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), whose novel Invisible Cities was published in Italy in 1972, and two composers, Italy’s Luciano Berio (1925-2003) and Japan’s Hosokawa Toshio, who is turning 70 this year.
It featured calligraphy performances, international musical debuts, video screenings and readings from Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Berio’s Norton Lectures, a few Haiku poems by Bashō, the De Imaginum by Giordano Bruno with texts by Hosokawa and Silvio Ferragina.
The synergy between different languages echoed the aesthetic principles that inspired the artistic partnership forged by Berio and Calvino, in a style steeped in fantasy and lightness.
Thanks to the singular union between Japanese and Italian culture, the forms appeared open and agile, mixing lines, sounds and words.
The protagonists on stage were the Ensemble Sen to oto, pianist Letizia Michielon and calligrapher Silvio Ferragina.
Martina Merenda and Stefano Annunziato were the voice actors.
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The event paid homage to author Italo Calvino (1923-1985), whose novel Invisible Cities was published in Italy in 1972, and two composers, Italy’s Luciano Berio (1925-2003) and Japan’s Hosokawa Toshio, who is turning 70 this year.
It featured calligraphy performances, international musical debuts, video screenings and readings from Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Berio’s Norton Lectures, a few Haiku poems by Bashō, the De Imaginum by Giordano Bruno with texts by Hosokawa and Silvio Ferragina.
The synergy between different languages echoed the aesthetic principles that inspired the artistic partnership forged by Berio and Calvino, in a style steeped in fantasy and lightness.
Thanks to the singular union between Japanese and Italian culture, the forms appeared open and agile, mixing lines, sounds and words.
The protagonists on stage were the Ensemble Sen to oto, pianist Letizia Michielon and calligrapher Silvio Ferragina.
Martina Merenda and Stefano Annunziato were the voice actors.
(ANSA).
Read article…
