Meetings and seminars

Giacomo Puccini 1958 – 2008
by
Virgilio Bernardoni, Piermarco De Santi, Michele Girardi and Arthur Groos

• I SESSION
  May 23rd, 24th, 25th, 2008, in Lucca, S. Girolamo Theatre
  “I’m living a period of nervousness”. Puccini and opera at the beginning of the 20th century
  
  

  Friday, 23rd May – 3 pm – Meeting opening
  Bruno Ermolli, Chairman of the National Committee for Puccini Celebrations 2004-2008
  Stefano Baccelli, President of the Province of Lucca
  Mauro Favilla, Mayor of Lucca
  Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, Chairman of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini

  Aesthetics and dramaturgy of opera
  Giovanni Guanti, Tonight we improvise (each one in his own way)
  Mila De Santis, New dramaturgy and terminological research in early twentieth-century Italy
  Francesco Cesari, The «thing».

   
  Saturday, 24th May – 10 am
  Theatre, libretto, opera
  Cristina Grazioli, Mental space and real space in European time in the early twentieth century
  Guido Padano, Fanciulla from Belasco to Puccini
  Emanuele D’Angelo, To hell for love. Following Gianni Schicchi’s libretto.
  Alberto Bentoglio, Puccini and Simoni from the papers preserved at the Livia Simoni library in Milan

   

  Saturday, 24th May – 3 pm
  Puccini’s twentieth century operas and their context
  Marco Beghelli, Puccini speaks about his colleagues
  Peter Ross, «CHOIR (turning the back to the audience)» - Remarks about the supremacy of  music in the dramaturgy of Turandot
  Arman Schwarz, Puccini and the Primal Sound
  Cesare Orselli, In Puccini’s laboratory: Mascagni, Zandonai and others

   

  Sunday, 25th May – 10 am
  European framework
  Johannes Streicher, Franco Alfano between Wagner and Puccini
  Claudio Toscani, Orchestration art in Italian musicians in the early twentieth century: formative influences and European models
  Jürgen Maehder, Orchestral language in Europe’s end-of-century opera: structural complexity and individuality of the parts in the orchestral fabric
  Anna Maria Morazzoni, The image of Puccini at Schönbergkreis

  
  
• II SESSION
  July 4th, 5th, 6th, 2008, at Torre del Lago, New Theatre Auditorium
  Staging Puccini, yesterday and today
  
  

  Friday, 4th July – 3 pm – Opening of the meeting
  Michele Girardi, Staging Puccini, yesterday and today

  Jürgen Maehder presides over The stage at the time of Puccini
  Basic report by Mercedes Viale Ferrero
  Speeches by: Maria Ida Biggi, Michela Niccolai, David Rosen, Emilio Sala

  Saturday, 5th July – 10 am
  David Rosen, presides over Puccini productions for comparison
  Speeches by: Luciano Alberti, Evan Baker, Francesco Bellotto, Kii – Ming Lo, Michela Niccolai

  Saturday, 5th July - 4 pm
  Mercedes Viale Ferrero presides over Puccini and opera direction after the Second World War
  Basic report by Jürgen Maehder
  Speeches by: Luciano Alberti, Francesco Bellotto, Michele Girardi, Stefano Vizioli

  Sunday, 6th July - 10.30 am
  Michele Girardi coordinates Puccini’s performances, from the past to the future
  Talk with: Bruno Bartoletti and Sylvano Bussotti

  
  
• III SESSION
  August 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 2008, at Torre del Lago, New Theatre Auditorium
  Puccini in cinema
  
  Thursday, August 28 – 4:00 p.m. – Greetings of the Authorities

  Puccini’s Heritage in the National Motion Picture and Audiovisual Institute Archives – A round table coordinated and introduced by Pier Marco De Santi

  Attending participants: Livio Jacob ( Friuli Film Collection), Gaetano Martino ( Lucana Film Collection), Massimo Pistacchi e Mauro Tosti Croce ( Central Institute of Audiovisual and Soundtrack Heritage),

  Dino Piretti (RAI Archive)

  6:00 p.m.

  Film screening: The Toll of the Sea (1922) by Chester M. Franklin

  A visited guide of the exhibit Puccini and Cinema by Pier Marco De Santi and the Puccini Festival Foundation

  Friday, August 29 – 9:30 a.m.

  Gianpaolo Caprettini presides over – Puccini’s presence in Twentieth Century Cinema.

  Intervening participants: Pier Marco De Santi, University of Pisa, Puccini and Cinema

  Gian Piero Brunetta, University of Padova, Giacomo Puccini, mother/god-mother and nursing maid of Twentieth Century Cinema

  Renato Bovani and Rosalia Del Porro, Puccini at the dawn of cinema

  Communication: Marco Vannelli, director the magazine “Ciemme”, Fritz Lang does Harakiri

  4:00 p.m.

  Michele Girardi presides over – Puccini and Silent Films.

  Intervening participants: Adriana Guarnirei Corazzol, University of Venezia, The firs tcinema  opera: Puccini and freeze frame

  Marco Bellano, University of Padova, The Mute Maestro. A selection of Puccini’s music for Allgemeines Handbuch der Filmusik

  Roberto Calabretto, University of Udine, The fortune of Manon Lescaut in motion pictures.

  Communication: Pier Marco De Santi, Francesca Bertini and “her” Tosca.

  6:00 p.m.

  Film screening: Tosca (1901) with Sarah Bernhardt

  La Bohème (1912) by Albert Capellani

  Tosca (1918) by Alfredo De Antoni with Francesca Bertini (third reel)
  Interview with Francesca Bertini

  Manon Lescaut by Paul Robinson with Lya De Putti

  Saturday, August 30 – 9:30 a.m.

  Roberto Calabretto presides over – From sound to the post-war years

  Intervening participants: Manfred Giampietro, University of Pisa, The great voices in “film-operas” in Puccini’s repertory

  Ivo Blom, Univeristy of Amsterdam, From Gallone’s Manon Lescaut to Clouzot’s Manon

  Matilde Hochkofler, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Before him Rome trembles: parallel opera

  4:00 p.m.

  Pier Marco De Santi presides over – From the Fifties to the Eighties

  Intervening participants: Marco Vannelli, My Geisha: Yves Montand, a Puccini “heroine”

  Orio Caldiron, University “La Sapienza” of Rome, Carmine Gallone and Opera films

  Sauro Borelli, journalist, Zeffirelli and Puccini

  6:00 p.m.

  Dvd screening of an assembled product by the Cinema Multimedia Center of the principal scenes with Puccini’s music in contemporary motion pictures.

  Sunday, August 31 – 9:30 a.m.

  Antonio Trudu, presides over – Puccini’s music in contemporary motion pictures and television films.

  Intervening participants: Umberto Guidi, journalist, Puccini’s fortune in contemporary motion pictures

  Anton Giulio Mancino, University of Bari, The end of the brief century; the overseas heroes of Puccini

  Giampaolo Caprettini, University of Torino, The great national television productions: Puccini by Sandro Bolchi – La Famiglia Ricordi by Mauro Bolognini

  Communications: Nunziante Valoroso, Cinit – Italian Cineforum, Disney and Puccini

   

• IV SESSION
  21st, 22nd, 23rd November – Puccini Room at the Music Conservatoire “Giuseppe Verdi”, Milan
  Criticism and Tradition of the Works
  
  Friday, 21st November – 3 p.m. – Welcome by authorities
  
  Bruno Ermolli, president of the National Committee for Puccini Celebrations 2004-2008
  Francesco Saverio Borrelli, president of the Music Conservatoire “Giuseppe Verdi”
  Bruno Zanolini, director of the Music Conservatoire “Giuseppe Verdi”
  Michele Girardi, president of the National Edition of Giacomo Puccini’s Works
  Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, president of the Giacomo Puccini Study Centre
  
  4 p.m.
  Virgilio Bernardoni presides over – Forms of Puccini Writing
  
  Speakers: Philip Gossett, The Critical Edition of Puccini and Puccini’s Autographs
  Gabriella Biagi Ravenni, Dieter Schickling, ‘Epistoler’ Puccini: Towards the Critical Edition of the Letters
  
  Saturday, 22nd November - 10:00 p.m.
  Arthur Groos presides over – The Criticism of the Texts
  
  Speakers: Gabriele Dotto, Beyond the Written Page
  Martin Deasy, “Le Villi”: Sources and Issues
  Linda Fairtile, (Re)Constructing the Duomo: Revisions to the Act 2 Finale of “Edgar”
  Roger Parker, “Manon Lescaut”: What a New Edition Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
  
  3 p.m.
  Gabriella Biagi Ravenni presides over – The Critical Reception (1)
  
  Speakers: Marco Capra, Puccini Criticism in Italy in Journalism and Musicology
  Jacopo Pellegrini, “I feel I’m taking revenge for many accusations and many oversights and omissions”. Various Italian fortune of Puccini, in booklets and magazines (either music or not)
  
  4:30 p.m.
  Licia Sirch, Gabriele Rota, Puccini traces at the Conservatoire of Milan
  
  Round Table
  Contemporary Milan Composers and Puccini
  
  Participants: Lorenzo Ferrero, Danilo Lorenzini, Marco Tutino, Fabio Vacchi
  Coordination: Angelo Folletto
  
  6:30 p.m. - Concert
  
  Giacomo Puccini
  Quartetto in Re maggiore – Tre Minuetti – Crisantemi
  Petrassi Quartet 
  
  Sunday, 23rd November – 10:00 a.m.
  Michele Girardi presides over – The Critical Reception (2)
  
  Speakers: Riccardo Pecci, Two people from Lucca in third page: Catalani – Puccini and the periodical press
  Fiamma Nicolodi, Puccini in Paris
  Anselm Gerhard, The reception of Puccini in Germany between the two Wars: from the Vienna school to the national-popular ideology
  Kii-Ming Lo, “The Turandot” – Reception in Taiwan and China