RADIO RITMO
voices and sounds from the ether
on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi (1874- 1937)
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' radio broadcast triggered panic, making people believe that an interplanetary conflict had begun through an alien invasion in New Jersey, giving rise to the first major fake news spread through a means of communication.
Freely inspired by The War of the Worlds, RADIO RITMO aims to recall the impressive communicative power of radio and, at the same time, stimulate reflection on the impressive effect of the media and their reliability. From a concert hall, where an orchestra is performing, the apocalyptic expedient of H. G. Wells' text begins.
Two actors reproduce the radio broadcast, In RADIO RITMO we find the extraordinary engaging capacity of sounds and voices, still not overwhelmed by images, leaving room for imagination and recreating an incredible atmosphere.
actors Mirko Rizzotto e Sandra Cavallini
director Massimo Sceusa
Baraccano Orchestra
conductor Giambattista Giocoli
violin Gabriele Bellu
cello Alessandro Culiani
flute Claudia Piga
bassoon Davide Braco
piano Denis Zardi
arrangements
Giambattista Giocoli, Filippo Mazzoli, Denis Zardi
vintage antenna construction Sandro Manini
MUSIC
Darius MILHAUD
Scherzo da LA CREATION DU MONDE
George GERSHWIN
Preludio I dai TRE PRELUDI JAZZ
Kurt WEILL
Kanonen Song da L’OPERA DA TRA SOLDI
André CAPLET
Piece
George GERSHWIN
Preludio II dai TRE PRELUDI JAZZ
Francis POULENC
Tango
Darius MILHAUD
Emporté dal QUARTETTO
Kurt WEILL
Polly’s Lied da L’OPERA DA TRE SOLDI
Franz SCHUBERT
Serenata
Igor STRAVINSKIJ
Tango per pianoforte solo
Béla BARTÓK
Danza Rumena n° 5
Danza Rumena n° 6
Johann S. BACH
Sarabanda per flauto solo
Claude DEBUSSY
Syrinx per flauto solo
Igor STRAVINSKIJ
Danza del Diavolo da L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT
Giovanni SOLLIMA
Melodia per violoncello solo
Ottorino RESPIGHI
Andantino dal QUINTETTO IN FA MINORE
per pianoforte e archi
Dmitrij KABALEVSKY
The Clowns per pianoforte solo
René de CASTÉRA
Rondeau dal CONCERT
Darius MILHAUD
Brazileira dalla suite SCARAMOUCHE
ORCHESTRA DEL BARACCANO
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Theater of Baraccano in Bologna, where a production and research project on chamber music theater is carried out.
It was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista Giocoli.
The Orchestra has produced numerous musical theater shows, both independently and in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, BSMT productions and the University of Bologna.
Productions include: musicals A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim, the show Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinskij, the projects All'Opera!, symphonies, intermezzos and overtures of the Italian Opera, and 4th Gustav Mahler, the Mahler's fourth symphony, arranged for chamber orchestra.
In 2017 the Orchestra realized the following project: Popular Songs, with soloist Cristina Zavalloni, a new Histoire du soldat with the voice of Ivano Marescotti and The Barber in comics, the Rossini's Barber of Sevilla with music, animation and Manga drawings of Tsukishiro Yuko, an internation coproduction with Japan.
In 2021 it will be the center of events of the Respighi project, a project on the musician and composer Ottorino Respighi and of Progetto Kafka. In 2022 it was the fulcrum of the PON VoltONE project on AIDA, a reduction of G. Verdi's Opera for ensemble and speaking voice. In 2022, with the RESPIGHI suite program, it toured the Czech Republic and Poland, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia for the 70th edition of the Split Summer Festival.
GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Born in 1976 in Matera, initially a clarinetist, he studied clarinet in his hometown and later graduated from the Bologna Conservatory. As an instrumentalist he studies with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.
Performs recordings for Italian and foreign radio stations, recording various CDs of classical and contemporary music. For 10 years he collaborates with the lyrical and symphonic seasons of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna with which he performs multiple tours in Italy and abroad.
He has collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble of Bologna and with the Sentieri Selvaggi of Milan ensemble, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.
In 2013 he made his debut as a conductor in the production of American Musicals and in the same year he founded the Orchestra of the Baraccano, with which he produced chamber music theater projects and symphonic projects that he still toured. Since 2015 he has worked as a guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation in Parma and since 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro. In 2018 he also began working with the Lucana Orchestra Foundation and the Virtuosi of the Italian Opera.In 2022, with his Orchestra he toured Poland and the Czech Republic, in 2023 in Hungary and in 2024 in Croatia.He is the art director of the Teatro del Baraccano in Bologna and of the research and production project of musical theater ATTI SONORI in Bologna.