1. Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher.
17 Facts About Sylvano Bussotti
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Sylvano Bussotti was known as a composer for the stage.
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Sylvano Bussotti was artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, the Puccini Festival and the music section of the Venice Biennale.
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Sylvano Bussotti taught internationally, for a decade at the Fiesole School of Music.
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Sylvano Bussotti is regarded as a leading composer of Italy's avantgarde, and a Renaissance man with many talents who combined the arts expressively.
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Sylvano Bussotti was introduced to painting, by his uncle Tono Zancanaro and his older brother Renzo.
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Sylvano Bussotti travelled to the US in 1964 and 1965, visiting Buffalo and New York invited by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Sylvano Bussotti pursued other disciplines including painting, graphic art, and journalism.
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Sylvano Bussotti was a well-known film director, actor, and singer.
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Sylvano Bussotti wrote most of the librettos for his operas.
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Sylvano Bussotti was well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, and Umberto Eco.
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Sylvano Bussotti was the stage director of Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochyntsi for La Scala in Milan in 1981, followed two years later by Puccini's Il trittico, a televised production for which he designed the set of Gianni Schicchi.
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Sylvano Bussotti served as the artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, directed the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and was director of opera at La Scala.
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Sylvano Bussotti was head of the music section of the Venice Biennale from 1987.
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Sylvano Bussotti taught composition, analysis and the history of musical theatre at the Academy of Fine Arts in L'Aquila, at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart in Stuttgart, at the Royan Festival and from 1980 to 1991 at the Fiesole School of Music.
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Sylvano Bussotti died at a nursing home in Milan after a long illness on 19 September 2021, twelve days before his 90th birthday.
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Sylvano Bussotti was awarded the ISCM Prize from the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1961,1963 and 1965, then in 1967 the All'Amelia Prize at the Venice Biennale, in 1974 the Toscani d'Oggi Prize, and in 1979 the Psacaropulo Prize.