Exhibition
Imaginary Landscapes
Sounding Images: Reshaping the heritage of Italian cinema classics is a SISS project concert series dedicated to the rediscovery and enhancement of the Italian audiovisual heritage through live music.
Its development has led to the production of two different film-concerts. The first one, “Italy In Film: Song, Opera, And Novel In The Mirror Of Cinema”, curated by Francesco Finocchiaro and Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, include scenes from films inspired by Neapolitan songs made two pioneers of Italian cinema in the 1910s and 1920s, ‘A Santanotte” (1921–22) by Elvira Notari and “Napoli che canta” (1926) by Roberto Leone Roberti.
The second film-concert is titled “Reshaping soundtracks: documentary films of the 1950s and 1960s, and Avant-Garde Italian Music”, curated by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Bruno Di Marino and Francesco Finocchiaro presents a fresco of Italy through documentaries produced between the Second World War and the 1960s.
The original soundtracks, composed by important composers of the second half of the 20th century such as Roman Vlad and Egisto Macchi, have been reinterpreted for ensemble and electronics by composers Rares-Ionuț Ghimpu, Raul Masu and Gabriele Pierro.
Italy In Film: Song, Opera, And Novel In The Mirror Of Cinema
Scenes from “ ‘A Santanotte” (1921–22)
A film by Elvira Notari
Original music: Ernesto De Curtis (1875–1937) and Francesco Buongiovanni (1872–1940)
Orchestral arrangements: Angela Feo, Cristian Lombardi and Vincenzo Russo
Coordination: Paolo Tortiglione
In collaboration with the Conservatorio “S. Pietro a Majella” di Napoli and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Roma – Cineteca Nazionale
Scenes from “Napoli che canta” (1926)
A film by Roberto Leone Roberti
Original nitrate print preserved and restored by The George Eastman Museum – Rochester, New York
Original music: Eduardo Di Capua (1865-1917), Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878-1972), Mario Nicolò (1893-1959), Nicola Valente (1881-1946), E.A. Mario (1884-1961), Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916)
Orchestral arrangements: Andrea Siano
In collaboration with the Conservatorio “T. Schipa” di Lecce and the The George Eastman Museum
ORCHESTRA BONPORTI
Flute and piccolo: Benedetto Michelini
Oboe: Jacopo Di Gennaro
Clarinet: Cosmin Pavel
Bassoon: Ivo De Ros
Horn: Laurențiu Atănăsoaie, Darius Ștefan Popovici
Trumpet: Damiano Bordiga
Saxophone: Jordan Piol
Piano: Samuele Scarpetta
Accordion: Jacopo Zendri
Percussion: Alirio Cattoni, Enea Voltolini
Harp: Eleonora Spanu
Violin I: Nataliya Kulak (concertmaster), Gianluca Brucetta, Olha Dolhopolova, Maira Manzana, Francesco Nicodemo, Helena Hajt ok, Elina Kulak, Bohdan Kvasnytsia, Emma Rodella, Silviu Andrei Simion Slama
Violin II: Anđelina Bariče vić, Mattia Bernardi, Filip Călin, Davide Di Santi, Filippo Marcon, Alberto Moretto, Anfisa Murenko, Federico Pezzilli, Oleksandra Zharko
Viola: Marius Antohi-Lupu, Christian Battisti, Samira Forte, Thomas Muste, Rebecca Vidajić, Valentina Zbiljski
Cello: Anna Benciolini, Yeva Konstantinova, Maiia Konstantinova, Paola Rizzo, Aurora Zanoletti, Čagla Kurt
Double bass: Sebastiano Bonato, Guido Gaffurini
Reshaping soundtracks: documentary films of the 1950s and 1960s, “and Avant-Garde Italian Music
“Il Dramma di Cristo” (1946)
A film by Luciano Emmer and Enrico Gras
Original music: Roman Vlad (1919–2013)
Adaptation for ensemble: Rares-Ionuț Ghimpu, based on the manuscript preserved at the Istituto per la Musica of the Fondazione “Giorgio Cini” in Venice
Coordinator: Adrian Borza
In collaboration with the Academia Naţională de Muzică “Gheorghe Dima” in Cluj-Napoca, the Fondazione “Giorgio Cini” in Venice and the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
“Magia Lucana” (1958)
A film by Luigi Di Gianni
Original music: Traditional oral music of Lucania collected by Diego Carpitella (1924–1990)
Reworked original soundtrack for ensemble and electronics: Raul Masu and Gabriele Pierro
In collaboration with the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
ENSEMBLE BONPORTI
Flute | Victor Ferreira
Clarinet and bass clarinet | Gabriele Scorzato
Saxophone | Lorenzo Ravizza
Accordion | Jacopo Zendri
Percussion | prof. Roberto Pangrazzi
Violin | prof. Patrizia Bettotti, Federico Curioni
Viola | Paolo Fumagalli
Cello | Çagla Kurt
Double bass | prof. Massimiliano Rizzoli
Video direction: Fabio Libardi
Camera operators: Luca Bona, Salvatore Livecchi, Filippo Nicolodi
Production sound mixer: Sebastiano Beozzo
Streaming sound mixer: Nicola Petricci
Audio and video post-production: Salvatore Livecchi
Producer: Fabio Cifariello Ciardi