Romaeuropa Festival 2017: Music and Image Dialogues
The Romaeuropa Festival hosted three concerts exploring the dialogue between music and image. Conductor Antonio Pappano directed Karol Szymanowski's opera "King Roger," with a live video by Masbedo (Nicolò Masazza and Jacopo Bedogni) that projected slow, metaphysical imagery suggesting power, gold, and violence. The video-music synergy is noted as an ongoing trend, with parallels to Riccardo Muti's Aida collaboration with Shirin Neshat in Salzburg. Robert Hencke performed a live digital music and image concert at Teatro Argentina, blending digital sound with colorful visual rhythms, and presented an installation at the festival's Digitalife exhibition (Phosphor). The Cineteca di Bologna produced a new restoration of Robert Wiene's silent film "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari," with a soundtrack by Edison Studio (Mauro Cardi, Luigi Ceccarelli, Cifariello Ciardi, Alessandro Cipriani), who used vocal distortion and sonic marginality to match the film's expressionist visuals.
Key facts
- Romaeuropa Festival 2017 featured three concerts on music-image dialogue.
- Antonio Pappano conducted Karol Szymanowski's 'King Roger' with Masbedo live video.
- Masbedo's video used slow, metaphysical imagery with gold paint and fragmented bodies.
- Riccardo Muti presented Aida with Shirin Neshat in Salzburg.
- Robert Hencke performed digital music and image live at Teatro Argentina.
- Hencke's installation 'Phosphor' was part of Digitalife exhibition.
- Cineteca di Bologna restored Robert Wiene's 'Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari'.
- Edison Studio created a new soundtrack for the film using vocal distortion and sonic marginality.
Entities
Artists
- Antonio Pappano
- Karol Szymanowski
- Masbedo
- Nicolò Masazza
- Jacopo Bedogni
- Robert Hencke
- Riccardo Muti
- Shirin Neshat
- Robert Wiene
- Mauro Cardi
- Luigi Ceccarelli
- Cifariello Ciardi
- Alessandro Cipriani
- Lorenzo Taiuti
- Edvard Munch
Institutions
- Romaeuropa Festival
- Teatro Argentina
- Cineteca di Bologna
- Edison Studio
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano
- Facoltà di Architettura Roma
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Salzburg
- Austria
- Bologna