University of Genoa, Department of Italian, Romance, Classical Studies, Arts and Performing Arts, 26–28 November 2025
In collaboration with the Italian Society of Musicology, the “Niccolò Paganini” Conservatory of Genoa, the Carlo Felice Theatre Foundation, the Falcone – University Theatre of Genoa, and the “Luigi Canepa” Conservatory of Sassari
WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER
Great Hall of the School of Humanities, Via Balbi 2 (Genoa)
2:30 p.m. – Institutional greetings
- Micaela Rossi – Dean of the School of Humanities
- Duccio Tongiorgi – Director of DIRAAS
- Marco Mangani – President of the Italian Society of Musicology
- Luigi Giachino – Director of the “Niccolò Paganini” Conservatory of Genoa
- Federico Pupo – Artistic Director of the Carlo Felice Theatre Foundation
3:00–4:30 p.m. – Berio through the lens of intramediality
Chair: Giada Viviani (University of Genoa / SIM)
Laura Zattra (Conservatory “Jacopo Tomadini”, Udine)
Computers that listen to body movement: Berio and the collaboration with Antonio Camurri in Outis and Cronaca del Luogo
Giacomo Albert (University of Turin)
Multimedia syntheses: Bruno Munari’s I colori della luce
4:30–5:00 p.m. – Coffee break
5:00–6:30 p.m. – Engaging audiences: Berio in concert and television programming
Chair: Davide Mingozzi (Conservatory “Niccolò Paganini” of Genoa)
Roberto Iovino (Paganini Centre, Genoa)
Berio in Ligurian concert seasons
Anna Scalfaro (University of Bologna)
Richness, complexity, plurality: Luciano Berio and public outreach
CLOSING EVENT OF THE DAY
“Niccolò Paganini” Conservatory, Via Albaro 38
8:30–10:00 p.m. – Concert
Berian Passages
Music by Luciano Berio
Ensemble and soloists of the Genoa Conservatory
THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER
Great Hall of the School of Humanities, Via Balbi 2
10:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – “A thinker across the board”: intellectual foundations of Berio’s music
Chair: Angelo Pinto (Conservatory “Gesualdo da Venosa” / University of Innsbruck)
Markus Ophälders (University of Verona)
The calculated alchemy of sounds. Luciano Berio rereads Severinus Boethius
Carlo Serra (University of Calabria / University of Turin)
Reading Berio between hope and convention
Thomas Peattie (University of Mississippi)
The Translator as Traitor? Betrayal as an Act of Love in Berio’s Schubert Transcriptions
12:30–2:30 p.m. – Lunch break
2:30–4:30 p.m. – Interpreting Berio
Chair: Raffaele Mellace (University of Genoa)
Nicholas Isherwood (Conservatoire de Montbéliard / Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” of Rome)
A-Ronne, a representative madrigal
Marco Angius in dialogue with Raffaele Mellace
4:30–5:00 p.m. – Coffee break
5:00–6:30 p.m. – Research at DIRAAS
Chair: Manuela Manfredini (University of Genoa)
Angela Zinno (University of Genoa)
The proxemics of Voice in Berio’s poetics
Federica Scaglione (University of Genoa)
Laborintus II: “a scandal of huge proportions” in the history of theatre and music
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER
9:00–10:30 a.m. – Berio and intellectuals
Great Hall of the School of Humanities, Via Balbi 2
Chair: Marco Berisso (University of Genoa)
Emanuele Franceschetti (Conservatory “Guido Cantelli”, Novara)
The words that remain. Through the Berio–Mila correspondence
Claudia di Luzio (Humboldt University / UdK Berlin)
Reverberating multiplicities: collaborations with Calvino and Sanguineti
10:30–11:00 a.m. – Coffee break
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. – Radio and audiovisual thought
Chair: Giulia Giovani (University of Siena / SIM)
Veniero Rizzardi (Royal Conservatoire The Hague)
Formazioni. Musical thought and technological aesthetics
Gaia Varon (IULM University, Milan)
Berio and radio as a sonic laboratory
Angela Carone (Conservatory “Arrigo Pedrollo”, Vicenza / Catholic University of Brescia)
“The cinema I do not like is the kind that smells of books.” Berio and films for the small and large screen
1:00–3:00 p.m. – Lunch break
Afternoon – Closing events
“Niccolò Paganini” Conservatory, Via Albaro 38
3:00–4:30 p.m. – Final discussion
Coordination: Angelo Pinto, Giada Viviani
4:30–5:00 p.m. – Coffee break
5:00–6:30 p.m. – Around Laborintus II: from research to performance
Mise en voix – Kirlian Vox. First study on Laborintus
Performed by the students of iF-Lab
Adaptation and direction: Angela Zinno
The Falcone – University Theatre of Genoa
60 years since Laborintus II
Music by Berio, Aloisi, Lizzeri
Laborintus Association, Sassari
Musicanova Ensemble of the “Luigi Canepa” Conservatory of Sassari
Conductor: Andrea Ivaldi
Edited by: Angelo Pinto and Giada Viviani
Scientific Committee: Manuela Manfredini (University of Genoa), Thomas Peattie (University of Mississippi), Angelo Pinto (Conservatory of Potenza / University of Innsbruck), Giada Viviani (University of Genoa / Italian Society of Musicology)
Associated with the conference is the concert Berio 100
