Rather Classical

A new generation of Italian composers is emerging, even though their works seem to be appreciated abroad more than in the home country. For instance, La Ciociara by Marco Tutino is scheduled to open the San Francisco season and his previous work Senso [For King, Country and Sex, 5 February 2011] has had a successful debut in Palermo and is now in the Warsaw National Opera House repertory but has not been shown in other Italian theatres. An exception may be La Metamorfosi ('Metamorphosis') by the young Italian composer Silvia Colasanti (born in 1974), a professor at the Perugia Conservatory and already well-known in Italy as well as in other European countries, in the USA and in Asia.

La Metamorfosi has the qualities to appeal to an international audience and has had a very good reception in Italy...