SPE - PERFORMANCE AND EXHIBITION SPACE   19.30

17 DECEMBER 2016
19.30

Orchestra Operaia
BY MASSIMO NUNZI
Maman o il Pene Eretto, viaggio musicale nelle trame di Louise Bourgeois
 (Mother or the Erect Penis, a Musical Journey into the Dramas of Louise Bourgeois)

voice  Marta Colombo
trumpets  Mario Caporilli, Fabio Gelli
trombones  Stan Adams (ten), Pierluigi Bastioli (bss)
sax  Claudio Giusti, Alex Tomei, Carlo Conti, Duilio Ingrosso
keyboards  Alessandro Gwiss, Gianluca Massetti
guitar  Manlio Maresca
bass  Lorenzo Feliciati
percussion PierPaolo Ferroni
direction and arrangements  Massimo Nunzi
arrangers (Lone Arrangers) Claudio Toldonato, Marco Vismara, Alberto Buffolano, Damiano La Rocca

The Orchestra Operaia is the result of breaking a taboo: that of style at all costs, belonging to a genre. The Orchestra was born as a musical “mechanism”, a creative motor that allows the creation of every kind of musical style. Technically, it is a small big band, created on the model of Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians or the orchestras of Fletcher Henderson. Renouncing stylistic arrangement is a risky, but very interesting step to take because, disregarding a genre of reference, and moreover, changing it over and over, you enter a no man’s land which allows you to experience all the possible identities that an orchestral group of this type, generally tied to jazz, can. Maman o il Pene Eretto was conceived by Massimo Nunzi and revolves around compositional elements inspired by the intense and contradictory, yet also very ironic, figure of Louise Bourgeois. And like the dense and articulate dramas of the tapestries that he has woven since he was young, Nunzi and the Operaia, with the help of six composers and thirteen soloists, will create a compact journey into the sophisticated archaism of evocative objects, imagined by the artist. 

artistic direction Antonio Caggiano