The music festival "Due Mondi" offers an opportunity to combine different musical worlds. With a focus on contemporary approaches and the promotion of emerging talent, we want to create a festival that celebrates the diversity of music and reaches new audiences.
 
The motto of the festival is "Dialogue of Worlds". We strive to promote exchange between different musical traditions and genres, whether between classical and contemporary music or between different cultures and regions. Every year, the "Due Mondi" festival chooses a contrasting theme that juxtaposes different facets of the music world. Be it the confrontation between classical and modern music, the interaction of West and East or the fusion of the profane and the sacred.
 
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, composers reacted to the then utopian, nostalgic view of the Chinese landscape and culture with pieces such as "Pagodas" (Debussy, 1903). This was followed by three important examples of musical chinoiserie of the 20th century: Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (1908), Stravinsky's "The Nightingale" (1914) and Puccini's "Turandot" (1926).
 
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Puccini's death, "Due Mondi" will focus on his last unfinished masterpiece "Turandot" and will focus on Chinese musical influences in new works and juxtapositions.

Univ.Prof. Mario Diaz

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