Sylvano Bussotti

Book of Saints of Eternal Rome (1968)

A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me during my being far away. –A. L. ...

Après la Passion selon Sade (1968)

Bis (1966)

In 1966, Bene presented The Pink and the Black, his successful theatrical adaptation of Matthew Gregory Lewis' lurid Gothic novel from 1796. Experimental filmmaker Paolo Brunatto filmed some of the play's rehearsals in a Rome apartment (also frequented als ...

Musica in corso (1966)

To a large extent, Cage's scores do not exist. They consist of instructions on how to create the score: a series of transparencies featuring holes, dots, and lines, layered haphazardly upon one another. Leonardi attempts to follow this general path using a ...

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2017)

The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter. The child has disappeared from her foster-home. Boccanegra returns to Genoa to break the news to Maria, and learns ...

Biennale Apollo (1989)

A short Venice-set musical ...

RARA (1969)

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in ...

Après la Passion selon Sade (1968)