On 29 January Luigi Nono would have turned 90, and on the occasion of this anniversary year the Holland Festival and Festspiele Zürich are commemorating the Venetian composer with a series of concerts in June and July. Nono’s Prometeo. Tragedia dell’ascolto will be performed both in Amsterdam (June 19) and  Zurich (July 2). Furthermore, the two festivals feature the following works:

Holland Festival (Westergasfabriek-Gashouder, Amsterdam)
June 21:
Como una ola de fuerza y luz
La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
Musica - Manifesto N°2 - Non Consumiamo Marx 
Performed by: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Irvine Arditti (violin), Susanne Otto (alto),  Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), André Richard (sound direction)  

June 22:
1° Caminantes… Ayacucho
2° No hay caminos hay que caminar... Andrej Tarkowskij
Performed by: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Susanne Otto (alto), Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Ingo Metzmacher (conductor), André Richard (sound direction), Schola Heidelberg, Cappella Amsterdam

The Holland Festival also presents a two-day conference (in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam) and an exhibition about the composer in collaboration with Archivio Nono.

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Festspiele Zürich (Tonhalle Zürich)
June 27
Post-prae-ludium n. 1  per Donau 
Guai ai gelidi mostri
Performed by: Collegium Novum Zürich, Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor), Simon Lamothe-Falardeau (tuba), Susanne Otto (alto), Noa Frenkel (alto)

July 1
Fragmente – Stille, An Diotima
Performed by Quatuor Diotima

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Nono: work list