LECTURERS
MARCO PODDA
‘The musician-doctor figure has distinguished precedents (in Italy, Giuseppe Sinopoli is an example of tragic greatness), but the “Podda case” is probably unique today in Italy in terms of the balance between the two professional positions, and even more significant is the obvious fact that the two professions are actually one, whose centre is always and in any case the voice and sound.’
Quirino Principe - Infinite Microcosm, 2014
Graduated as a contratenore at the Conservatorio G. Tartini in Trieste and medium compimento in classical guitar with Ennio Guerrato. Studied singing with Dietrich Schneider and Renèe Jacobs, composition with Andrea Giorgi, choral conducting with Hans Ludwig Hirsch. He graduated in medicine and surgery, specialised in otolaryngology and specialised in phoniatrics with top marks and distinction. He is a phoniatric consultant for various theatres. He has taught anatomy-physiology of oral communication at the University of Trieste, where he currently teaches the course in Artistic Voice; he holds courses and master-classes in vocal communication and sound. He assisted Giorgio Pressburger in the ‘Music for theatre’ courses at the DAMS in Gorizia. Founder and conductor of the ‘Cappella Tergestina’ and the ‘Kol Ha-Tikvà’, which he has conducted in over 300 concerts in Austria, Slovenia, Germany and France.
The production of stage music is substantial, with more than 75 performances in 30 years, including ´L'adulatore´ by Giorgio Pressburger, ´Sette a Tebe´ by Jean-Pierre Vincent, ´Wordstar(s)´ by Giuseppe Marini, and ´Edipo re´ by Daniele Salvo.
In 2015, on the occasion of the European Day of Jewish Culture, the premiere of ´ Il Canto´ - Rapsodia lirico sinfonica for soloists, choir and orchestra, with texts from the Shir Ha-Shirim, was performed at the Giuseppe Verdi Opera House in Trieste.
In 2016 his symphonic elegy ´Ein Jeder Engel ist schrecklich´ for female choir and orchestra on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke conducted by Beatrice Venezi was performed at the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Trieste. In 2018 he performed the string orchestra concerto Viator, paradigms for strings commissioned by the Busoni Orchestra and conducted by Massimo Belli for the Mattinate Musicali Internazionali in Trieste.
In 2018 Requiem for bass, female choir and orchestra was performed in Trieste conducted by Francesco Castellana. In 2019 his Jonas, oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra was performed in Trieste by the Orchestra de Sabata. In 2019, ´Chorós´, concerto for solo choir and orchestra, was performed as part of the Amenanos Festival at the Teatro Antico of Catania.
2019 saw the staging of his first opera ´Donna di Veleni´, newly commissioned by the Fondazione Teatro Coccia of Novara, on a libretto by Emilio Jona and directed by Alberto Jona.
In 2020, the opera ´Cassandra, in te dormiva un sogno´ (Cassandra, in you slept a dream) was staged at the Coccia Theatre in Novara, on a libretto by Daniele Salvo and Giulia Diomede and directed by Daniele Salvo, from which the homonym film was adapted.
In February 2023, ´Ossa spezzate´, a musical-dramatic painting for voice, strings and piano, was performed on commission for the Serate Musicali at the Puccini Hall of the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan.
From December 2023 to March 2024, his new opera´ L'oro del diavolo´ was staged, newly commissioned by the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, directed by Oscar Cecchi.
Publications of his works have been acquired and are held at the US Federal Library and at the Helvetic National Library.
The catalogue of his compositions includes over 200 opus numbers of which over 50 were published in print by various publishing houses, including Carrara, Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia, Da Vinci publishing distributed by Hall Leonard.
