“In its third edition, Modulations opens with a capital novel in the history of music of the last century. A text full of poetry, pain, desire that inspired a symbolic film, whose soundtrack goes beyond the dialogue and the image becomes as profound as on the canvas – say the artistic directors and creators of the festival Alessandro Baudino and Paola Cialdella -. Time, transformation, the pictorial image, impermanence, reciprocity: the program of the third edition travels between Italy and France, outlining subtle connections along different eras, physical time cancels itself and allows historical and contemporary sounds to intersect, generations are mirrored and meet. Historic locations, public spaces to open up to the city, original creations intended for a plural audience and new collaborations embellish this year’s programme. In thanking the collaborators and those who contributed to the creation of this edition, we invite everyone to this exciting new journey.”
On Friday 31 May the inaugural concert “Tous les matins du monde” will be performed by the group “Le Viole del re”, composed of Virginia Ghiringhelli (viola da gamba), Eleonora Ghiringhelli (viola da gamba), Angelo Lombardo (viola da gamba) with the music of Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais. The first part of the program features the great master Monsieur de Saint Colombe (ca. 1640-1700) who presents himself as an outsider in the musical panorama of the second half of the seventeenth century. We have received little biographical evidence of him, but many evidence of the importance with which he influenced the development of his instrument both from an organological and technical-instrumental and didactic point of view. The second part is entirely dedicated to Marin Marais, the most famous pupil of Maître S.Colombe who, with the publication of his five books of Pièces de viole in 1686, established himself in the Parisian violist world as an undisputed authority. Entrance is free.
On Saturday 1st June Palazzo Samone will be the scene of “Artemisia: di tenebra e di flame” by the group Cleantha, a recently formed vocal ensemble with equal voices, composed of Elisa Franzetti (vocals), Barbara Maiulli (vocals), Giulia Beatini (vocals) , Paola Cialdella (voice) and Elisa La Marca (lute and theorbo). Artemisia Gentileschi is strongly part of the contemporary world. The intricate human story intersects with the transition to the new world, from Copernicus to Caravaggio to Galileo Galilei, with whom she has epistolary and personal exchanges. She is the ideal companion of other women artists, such as Francesca Caccini, protagonist of her own career, pioneer of female emancipation, such as Vittoria Aleotti, Barbara Strozzi, such as the Ladies of the Secret Concert in Ferrara, including Anna Guarini. The biographies are also intertwined in the drama – the violence against the very young Artemisia, Anna’s suicide – in the origins of families of artists and in the path of personal affirmation, access to study, to fame in life. Entrance 10 euros, ticket reservation on ticket.it.
