Luciano Berio, autograph sketch for Cronaca del Luogo (detail) © Talia Pecker Berio; Basel, Paul Sacher Foundation, Luciano Berio Collection, by courtesy

The final meeting in the series on Luciano Berio’s Music Theatre will be held on 28-29 September 2013. Begun at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in September 2010, the study session benefits from the collaboration of the Université Paris 8 and the Centro Studi Luciano Berio. On the first day discussion will focus on philological, literary and technological aspects of Berio’s last composition for the stage: Cronaca del Luogo. The second day will be devoted to general reflections on Berio’s career in the field of music theatre. The speakers include Gianmario Borio, Angela Ida De Benedictis, Giordano Ferrari, Francesco Giomi, Michal Grover-Friedlander, Massimiliano Locanto, Ulrich Mosch, Talia Pecker Berio, Alessandro Roccatagliati, Gianfranco Vinay. Some of the talks and papers are already online (www2.univ-paris8.fr/DMCE/), while in 2015 all the proceedings will be published.