9 August 2025 (night between Saturday and Sunday) 1:00 a.m.
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Voci vicine 2.0

passion in 4 parts for  journalist-narrator, video, ensemble, and electronics
concept anbd music by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi

Riccardo Iacona, journalist-narrator

Icarus Ensemble – Cantus Ansambl 
Lavinia Guillari, flute
Mirco Ghiradini, clarinet
Mario Šincek, trombone
Diego Petrella, piano
Francesco Mazzoleni, percussion
Tvrtko Pavlin, viola
Jasen Chelfi, cello
Tonino Battista, conductor
Lucia Bova e Valeria Carissimi pre-recorded harp

A production  of Icarus Ensemble and Mittelfest2024 (premiere)
In collaboration with Festival Nuova Consonanza 2024 and Cantus Ansambl

Video directed by Roberto Giannarelli

Editing by  Daniele Bemportato
Camera operators, Vito Antonio Guglielmini, Davide Maria Marucci, Valerio Vertecchi
Filming and post-production by, SPAV Srl
Audio post-production,  EdisonStudio

The stage is set with a journalist, an ensemble and a throng of voices and faces: Italians that bring
shames about their ever-recurrent tragedies, screaming words of hatred filled with emotions. It’s the
voice of indignation the media bring everyday to Italian homes: a force as well as a weakness arising
from pleas, illiterate tirades of extrovert tongues. From earthquakes to white deaths, from the problem
of waste to climate change: the voices of a world that reacts, rebels and pursues its desire for freedom.
How close are we to such voices? (Fabio Cifariello Ciardi)

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