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Andrea Molino
Andrea Molino, composer and conductor, was born in Turin and studied
in Turin, Milan, Venice, Paris and Freiburg. He lives in Zurich.
With the Pocket Opera Company in Nuremberg he realized the smiling
carcass (1999) and Those Who Speak in a Faint Voice (2001), about
the death penalty (both in collaboration with Oliviero Toscani), first
examples of his commitment to innovative, multimedia-oriented music
theatre. From 2000 to 2006 Andrea Molino was Artistic Director of
Fabrica Musica. His multimedia music theatre CREDO, on ethnic and
religious conflicts, was premiered in April 2004 at the Badisches
Staatstheater Karlsruhe and then performed at the Stazione Termini in
Rome with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the World
Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates. In 2005 it opened the Queensland
Music Festival in Brisbane, Australia. WINNERS, on “winners and
losers”, was premiered in 2006 at the Brisbane Festival; the European
Premiere followed at the Grande Salle of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
His multimedia staged concert un Temps vécu, ou qui pourrait l’être
was premiered in 2008 at Le Fresnoy, in Lille, where he was “Invited
Artist”. In 2009, as Artistic Director of the World Venice Forum, he
curated the Festival The Garden of Forking Paths. At the Basilica dei
Frari he conducted the Orchestra della Fenice in his multimedia concert
Of Flowers and Flames, for the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster.
Three Mile Island, on the nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, was first
performed in 2012 at the ZKM in Karlsruhe; the Italian Premiere followed
at the Teatro India in Rome. The project received the Music Theatre
Now Award. His last opera, - there is no why here -, was premiered at
the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2014 and will be presented next May
in Antwerp at deSingel for the Flemish Opera (Opera XXI Festival).
As a conductor, he opened the 2014 Melbourne Spring Season and the
2015 Sydney Summer Season for Opera Australia respectively with
Puccini's Tosca and La Bohème; the latter was also the NYE Gala at
the Sydney Opera House. In Sydney he had already conducted Verdi's
A Masked Ball (directed by La Fura dels Baus) and Macbeth among
others. He opened the 2010 concert season of the Teatro La Fenice in
Venice with the world premiere of Maderna’s Requiem; in the Fenice he
had opened the Music Biennale 2005 with Goebbels’ Surrogate Cities
and conducted Mosca’s Signor Goldoni and Ambrosini's Il Killer di
Parole. He conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the
Bochumer Symphoniker, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, the
Dresdner Sinfoniker, the BBC SSO Glasgow, the OSL Nancy, The
Queensland Orchestra, at the Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Konzerthaus,
Sydney Festival, Berliner Festspiele in the Philharmonie in Berlin,
Queensland Music Festival, Brisbane Festival, Teatro Comunale in
Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Opéra national de Nancy,
Staatstheater Darmstadt, RomaEuropa Festival, Schauspielhaus Zurich
(with Goebbels' Industry and Idleness), Musik der Jahrhunderte
Stuttgart, Zagreb Biennale, Hellerau Dresden.
His recordings are published on CD and DVD by Stradivarius,
Milan, ECM, Munich, Naïve, Paris and Dynamic, Genoa. His
compositions are published by RAI Trade, Nuova Stradivarius and
Ricordi.
(3.2015)