Opera

Camille Claudel poster

Camille Claudel – opera in two acts (2013)

Libretto by Eleonora Gai and Gianmaria Griglio

Language: Italian

For 5 singers and chamber orchestra

Roles:

  • Young Camille Claudel, soprano
  • Auguste Rodin, baritone
  • Old Camille Claudel, alto
  • Rose Beuret, mezzo
  • Paul Claudel, tenor

Duration: ca. 2 hours

Camille Claudel poster

Caravaggio – opera in two acts (2019)

Libretto by Gianmaria Griglio

Language: Italian

For soloists, chorus and orchestra

Roles:

  • Caravaggio, tenor
  • Cecco, baritone
  • Lena, soprano
  • Ranuccio, baritone
  • Cardinal Borghese, bass
  • Alof de Wignacourt, bass
  • Giovanni Rodomonte, baritone

Duration: ca. 2 hours

Voice and instrument

  • “Fog”, aria for voice and piano after K.Sandburg (2001)
  • “Preludes”, 4 arias for voice and piano after T.S.Eliot (2001)
  • 3 arias for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano after A.Pisano (2009)
  • “Arte poética”, aria for flute, voice and piano after P.Neruda (2010)
  • “No te amo”, for soprano and piano after P.Neruda (2013)
  • “Soneto XLV”, for soprano and piano after P.Neruda (2014)
  • “L’irreparable”, for baritone and piano after C.Baudelaire (2015)
  • “Causerie” for bass-baritone and piano after C.Baudelaire (2015)
  • “La fin de la journée” for tenor and piano after C.Baudelaire (2015)
  • “Le coucher du soleil romantique” for soprano and piano after C.Baudelaire (2016)
  • “No te quiero” for baritone and piano after P.Neruda (2017)

No te amo.
Violetta Lazin, soprano – Gianmaria Griglio, piano

Il canto del nibbio (2017)

3 songs for tenor and piano on poems by Guido de’ Cavalcanti

 

  • “Voi che per gli occhi”
  • “Tu m’hai sí piena di dolor la mente”
  • “Perché non fuoro a me gli occhi dispenti”

 

La notte di Yalda (The house of fireflies)

La notte di Yalda (2018)

(The House of Fireflies)

 

For soprano, baritone, piano, and dancers (min. 2)

Poems by Garcia Lorca, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Goethe

Chamber music

Orchestral music

  • “The lost youth” – Fantasia for orchestra (2002)
  • Camille Claudel Symphonic sketches (2017)
  • Clarinet Concerto (2022)

Arrangements

  • J. Strauss, “Der Zigeunebaron” – for chamber orchestra (2015) *
  • G. Donizetti, “Don Pasquale” – for chamber orchestra (2016) *
  • M. Ravel, “Menuet antique” – for string orchestra (2019)
  • I. Albeniz, “Asturias (Leyenda)” – for string orchestra (2019)
  • M. de Falla, “El paño moruno” from “Siete canciones populares españolas” – for string orchestra (2019)
  • M. de Falla, “Asturiana” from “Siete canciones populares españolas” – for string orchestra (2019)
  • L. Boccherini, “Fandango” from the guitar quintet G448 – for 2 oboes, castanets, and string orchestra (2020)
  • J.B. Lully, “Le Bourgeois gentilhomme” suite – for 2 oboes, percussion, and string orchestra (2020)
  • J.P. Rameau, “Le Indes galantes” suite – for 2 oboes, percussion, and string orchestra (2020)
  • R. Hahn, “Sopra l’acqua indormenzada” – for string orchestra (2021)
  • G. Rossini, Sonata a 4 n.6 – for string orchestra (2021)
  • A. Vivaldi, Sinfonia da “La Senna Festeggiante” – for string orchestra (2021)
  • J.Offenbach, Barcarolle da “Les contes d’Hoffmann” – for string orchestra (2021)
  • G.Guami, Canzonetta Ondeggiante – for string orchestra (2021)

* Note:  the overture for “Der Zigeunebaron” and “Don Pasquale” are available here and here. Please do get in touch with me directly for the rest of the opera.