Project «Air and Alessandro Baricco» was originally staged at Teatro Valle (Rome) on November 14th, 15th and 16th, 2003 for the RomaEuropa festival.
The texts are adapted from the novel City, by Alessandro Baricco.
ABOUT:
Alessandro Baricco (born January 25, 1958) is a popular Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages.
After receiving degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and piano (at the Conservatory), he published essays on music criticism: Il genio in fuga, 1988), on Gioachino Rossini, and L’anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin («Hegel’s Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin», 1992), on the relation between music and modernity. He subsequently worked as musical critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre.
Baricco debuted as a novelist with Castelli di rabbia, in 1991.
In 1993 he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin and named Scuola Holden after J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses about all kinds of narrative techniques, from screenwriting to journalism to videogames, novels and short-stories. Among the teachers have been some very prominent artists.
In the following years his fame has grown enormously throughout Europe, with his works always topping the Italian and French best-sellers lists. Larger recognition followed the adaptation of his theatrical monologue Novecento into The Legend of 190movie directed by Oscar prize director Giuseppe Tornatore.[citation needed]
He has also worked with the French band Air; their only release together is «City Reading», a mix of the French duo’s music with Baricco’s reading of his City.
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