Waiblingen – December 4
Andrea Molino conducts Marc Sinan's HASRETIM
with the Dresdner Sinfoniker
 
 
After the successful first performance of Marc Sinan's HASRETIM – EINE ANATOLISCHE REISE in Dresden (Festival Tonlagen, October 9, 2010), Andrea Molino conducts the piece again with the Dresdner Sinfoniker in Waiblingen (Germany), in the series of events  "Hinaus in die Welt und herein mit ihr", an initiative focussing on the issue of integration.
 
Hasretim is a concert installation with video documents and Turkish folk music as well as the music of Turkish troubadours. Driven by hasret – the Turkish term for indefinable longing – the German Turkish musician Marc Sinan and Markus Rindt, manager of Dresden Symphony Orchestra (Dresdner Sinfoniker), looked for musical encounters in the easternmost outskirts of Turkey, close to the Armenian frontier. The score is written for an ensemble of 22 instrumentalists, composed of members of the Dresdner Sinfoniker and Turkish and Armenian musicians; it is the result of an intense collaboration between Marc Sinan and Andrea Molino.

Venue: Waiblingen, Bürgerzentrum (Ghibellinensaal) – 8 p.m.
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Venue: Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice (Sale Apollinee) – 8 p.m

Carlisle Floyd: Of Mice and Men
Reviews of the Australian Premiere at the Sydney Opera House
 
 
Andrea Molino has conducted Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men, a new production of the Opera Australia premiered at the Sydney Opera House on July 23, 2011 and broadcast by the Australian ABC Classic FM Radio.
 
Reviews of the event are now available on Molino's homepage.  

Sydney Opera House – Saturday 23 July 7:30 p.m.
Andrea Molino makes his conducting debut at the Sydney Opera House
Australian Premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men
 
Andrea Molino will make his debut at the Sydney Opera House with Opera Australia, for the Australian Premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Opera, Of Mice and Men. This will be a new production.
 
Molino will conduct the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, the Opera Australia Chorus and a brilliant cast which includes Anthony Dean Griffey as Lennie; Barry Ryan as George; Bradley Daley as Curley and Jacqueline Mabardi as Curley's wife. The production is directed by the celebrated film director Bruce Beresford.

In its blog, Opera Australia follows the making of this opera production.
 
Carlisle Floyd is one of America's most revered composers, writing in the tradition of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. His highly theatrical music is full of humanity, underscored by a richly nuanced orchestral sound.
 
Of Mice and Men is based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella and shows a rural California in the time of the Great Depression. George and Lennie, two migrant farmhands, are different from their fellow workers. They have a plan, a dream to buy a farm and make a life. But it will only ever happen if George can keep Lennie, who has the strength of a giant, but the mind of a child, out of trouble.
 
Venue: Sydney, Opera Theatre – July 23, 26, 29 and August 2, 5, and 11, 7:30 p.m.   

Claudio Ambrosini's Il Killer di parole receives the Premio Abbiati 2010
Andrea Molino conducted the World Premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
 
The 30^th edition of the prestigious music critics' Franco Abbiati Prize has awarded the 2010 prize for the best first performance of an opera to Claudio Ambrosini's Il killer di parole.
 
Andrea Molino had conducted the production at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in December 2010 and will conduct the French Premiere at the Opéra national de Lorraine in Nancy in June and July 2012.
 
 
 
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Marc Sinan – HASRETIM
Special Prize of the Young EARopean Award
Andrea Molino had conducted the World Premiere
 
The German UNESCO Commission has awarded the Special Prize of the YEAH! Young EARopean Award to the German-Turkish-Armenian musician Marc Sinan and Dresdner Sinfoniker for HASRETIM – trip to Anatolia. Andrea Molino had conducted the World Premiere in Dresden in the frame of the festival Tonlagen on October 9, 2010. The score itself is the result of an intense collaboration between Marc Sinan and Andrea Molino.
 
 
 
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Memories, VIOLENCE, suppression
Dresden and February 13, 1945
Two pages of Molino's score for WINNERS in an exhibition
at the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
 
A Dresden exhibition tries to show how the bombing of Dresden on February 13, 1945, at the End of World War II, is present in witness and discussion. Two pages of the score of Andrea Molino's multimedia music action WINNERS are presented.
 
WINNERS explores the culture of victory; with live music, video projections and performing arts the project debates the common political and social tendency to divide people, nations and cultures through the categories of winners and losers.  Dresden is one of the five locations presented in the project, together with New York, Sharpeville (South Africa), Ayutthaya (Thailand) and Wallatina (South Australia).
 
Venue: Dresden (Buchmuseum), January 29 - April 2

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Claudio Ambrosini: Il Killer di Parole
Andrea Molino conducts Opera World Premiere at La Fenice
Venice, Teatro La Fenice – December 10, 2010
 
 
Andrea Molino has often worked both with Claudio Ambrosini and the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in the last years; the conducting of  the World Premiere of Ambrosini's new Opera Il Killer di Parole, a co-production of Teatro La Fenice with the Opéra national de Lorraine (Nancy), marks a new chapter in this fruitful and passionating collaboration.
 
Ambrosini signs not only for the score but also for the libretto of the opera commissioned by Teatro La Fenice. Il Killer di Parole is not based on any existing piece of literature but follows an idea developed in a series of conversations Ambrosini had with his friend Daniel Pennac. The score, as Molino analyses in an interview, is full of fascinating, unusual sounds, and the parts of the singers, elegant and elaborate.
 
The opera tells the story of an editor whose task is to sort out from the vocabulary antiquated words not in use anymore in order to make place for up-to-date and fashionable ones. His fascination for the beauty and the charm of the words he is supposed to „kill" makes this task impossible for him, and he thus eventually fails. About twenty-five years later his task is to record the rarest languages on earth from the very voice of their last speakers in order to decide which of them should be preserved. Again, his inability to decide which of those strange, fascinating languages has to disappear leads him to another, now ultimate failure.
 
Roberto Abbondanza will sing the title role, Andrea Molino will conduct Orchestra and Choir of Teatro La Fenice, the director is Francesco Micheli.

The Performance of December, 14 will be broadcast live by RAI Radio 3.  

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„Wo die Zitronen verdorren"
Radio feature on the situation of cultural life in Italy
Dorette Deutsch interviews among others
Italian composer and conductor Andrea Molino
Sunday, October 17, 2010 on SWR2, 2.05-3h p.m.
 
What has become of Italian cultural life in the last years, especially since Berlusconi is back again? Creativeness and finances seem both to be in a sorry state. For her radio feature „Wo die Zitronen verdorren. Eine italienische Reise", Dorette Deutsch has interviewed writers like Andrea Camilleri and Carlo Fruttero as well as the composer and conductor Andrea Molino. „No one in Italy can say today he has been deceived. From the very beginning it was absolutely clear how things would develop", Molino says. Thus the feature turns out to be the description of a cultural scene between resignation and rests of hope.

Venice, October 8-13, 2010 – Fondazione Giorgio Cini
The Institute for Living Voice (ILV) in Venice
A project of Theater Transparant Antwerp in co-production with Fondazione Claudio Buziol and Fondazione Giorgio Cini and in collaboration with the Conservatorio „B. Marcello" (Venice)

As the music curator of the Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Andrea Molino had invited the Institute for Living Voice (ILV) to Venice. From October 8-13, the ILV has presented the 14th edition of its annual international educational project, directed by David Moss and dedicated to the diversity and richness of the vocal art in workshops, concerts, debates and lectures with David Moss himself, Barbara Hannigan and Trevor Wishart.
The Venice edition was organized in co-production with the Fondazione Claudio Buziol and the laboratorioarazzi (electroacoustic music laboratories at the Istituto per la Musica of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini) and in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Musica „B. Marcello". It took place in the spectacular building of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

Dresden-Hellerau, October 9, 2010 – Festival Tonlagen
Andrea Molino conducts World Premiere of Marc Sinan's
HASRETIM – EINE ANATOLISCHE REISE
 

Songs from the mountains around Erzurum and Kars on the easternmost outskirts of Turkey, close to the Armenian frontier, are a musical documentation of a different modern world: archaic melodies which have told an endless variety of stories about love, hate, God and the mountains since time immemorial. Driven by hasret – the Turkish term for undefinable longing – the German Turkish musician Marc Sinan and Markus Rindt, manager of Dresden Symphony Orchestra (Dresdner Sinfoniker), looked for musical encounters in this wide, wild landscape. The result is a concert installation with video documents and Turkish folk music as well as the music of Turkish troubadours. The world premiere of the production has been presented in the frame of the festival Tonlagen on October 9, 2010. Andrea Molino has conducted an ensemble of 22 instrumentalists, composed of members of the Dresdner Sinfoniker and Turkish musicians. The score itself is the result of an intense collaboration between Marc Sinan and Andrea Molino.

Venue: Dresden-Hellerau, Festspielhaus, Großer Saal, 7pm

Ostfildern, October 1, 2010 – opening of the Festival Zukunftsmusik
Andrea Molino directs World Premiere
of Paolo Perezzani's Au bord du sens
A piece involving professional and amateur musicians

Paolo Perezzani's full evening Au bord du sens involves not only ten singers of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and four percussionists, but also ensembles of the Jugendmusikschule and choirs of Ostfildern and about 200 persons without special musical knowledges participating with their voices and producing sounds just by simple gestures. Together, they have created a most complex musical event, still enlarged by the projection of literary and philosophical texts.
Andrea Molino has coordinated and conducted this concert, the opening event of Zukunftsmusik, a festival for innovative music, conceived and organized by Musik der Jahrhunderte in cooperation with KulturRegion Stuttgart.

Stuttgart, September 7, 2010
Andrea Molino directs Stockhausen's Sternklang
A "Park Music" in the frame of sounding D and Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart

Music, under a heaven spotted by stars, becomes part of the universe. Stockhausen's Sternklang, a "Park Music", is conceived for five groups of musicians placed far one from another in a park – they cannot see but still hear each other group. The project was realized in Stuttgart's Höhenpark Killesberg in the frame of sounding D and the Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart. The production was a cooperation between the Internationale Bachakademie (organizer of the Musikfest) and Netzwerk Süd/Musik der Jahrhunderte. Andrea Molino has conducted singers and musicians of the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Ensemble ascolta and others, united specially for this complex and somptuous project.

Venue: Stuttgart, Höhenpark Killesberg, 8pm

Padua June 3, 2010 – Fondazione March
COCA-COLA AT THE WHITE HOUSE
or
The Concept of Simultaneity and the Breasts of Janet Jackson
Andrea Molino has spoken in the series of lectures Cos'è il contemporaneo?

In the frame of his role of Music Curator of the Fondazione Buziol Andrea Molino has been invited for a lecture in the series Cos'è il contemporaneo? which aims to understand what „contemporary" means and to defend the concept. Molino describes the thesis of his lecture as follows:
„Cathegories such as simultaneity (or contemporaneity...), temporal linearity, univocity of the concept of place and duration (that is, memory) not only form part of the everyday arsenal of the artist, the axioms from which the very idea of art making develops. They are also and more especially the pillars on which stand the semantic structures of all possible types of communication (interpersonal, social or technological); that is, the entire information exchange system within a community is transmitted: its culture.         
Closer inspection, however, shows how this construct of elements, on the face of it eminently consensual, is not as solid as it might appear...
A journey from Walter Benjamin to Andy Warhol and back."

Venue: Liceo Artistico Statale Amedeo Modigliani,
Padua,  June 3, 16.30-18.30 p.m.

Industry and Idleness is the title of the work from Heiner Goebbels which forms the core of the production conducted by Andrea Molino, played by Collegium Novum Zurich and directed by Heiner Goebbels.
By separating and combining acoustic and optical effects, conventional concert rituals are dissolved and translated into a new type of performance. The concert hall turns out to be the place of an artistic experience in which the boundaries between reality and fiction, hearing and seeing, moving and still, performers and audience are continously changing.
Industry and Idleness was developed in co-operation between the Collegium Novum Zurich and the Schauspielhaus Zurich.

World Premiere: May 10, 2010, 8 pm; further performances: May 12 to 15 / 8 pm; venue: Zurich, Schiffbau / Halle

Of Flowers And Flames, a multimedia concert first presented in occasion of the World Venice Forum 2009 in the Basilica dei Frari in Venice in October 2009 was conceived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster (in December 1984 a cloud of toxic gas was released from the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal). The project wishes to give voice and pay homage to the passion, courage and spirit of the people whose lives have been touched by the horror of this event.
The live DVD of this performance with Andrea Molino conducting the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice is now available and can be ordered at the International Academy of Environmental Sciences (IAES) in Venice (segreteria@iaes.info).

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