Castel dell'Ovo

Music for cinema, dance, acting, visual art for a castle that becomes the ideal place of aggregation of different paths.
From Cinzia Pennesi and Roberta Vacca's movies, commented upon by the live music, to the direct witness of some of the best composers of the contemporary scene for the movie music, Oscar Luis Bacalov at the piano with an orchestra of bows and Michael Nyman, with his storic band.
 
In search of a possible trascendent unity of music in the religions and in the civilization, some leaders of the ancient music are offered again, they intersect with present musical sensibilities, such as for A. Scarlatti's Passio, that precedes the realization, for the first time live, of the soundtrack Passion that Peter Gabriel wrote for the Scorsese's movie "L'ultima tentazione di Cristo". On the same line the Palestrina's Canticum Cantorum from the Old Testament, Monteverdi's "Combattimento i Tancredi e Clorinda from the Gerusalemme Liberata, with the Teatro dei Pupi Siciliani dei.
In this crossroads with the East we meet an original version of "Le Mille e una notte", told by another Oscar Vincenzo Cerami, for the original music of Aidan Zammit, performed by the author, and with a witness of the great tradition of sitar, Indian National instrument, Shalil Shankar, will bewitch with the magic melodies of his ragas. Other milestones for the old music the Songs for lute and soprano of John Download, and for the twentieth-century, the exceptionsl Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano of John Cage.
 
Big space also to the Neapolitan tradition, with the Spakkaneapolis 55 that will present in exclusive preview, the Janus Project, of the next CD, the only italian group invited to record for the famous label Real World and more than once on stage with their talent scout Peter Gabriel, of which To underline the continuity with some aspects of his friend's work and colleague Brian Eno, guest of the previous edition "May of Monuments 2007" too, that will be presented also the cd rom EVE by Peter Gabriel, a trip through four virtual universes by a collective navigation that the public it self will manage.