OCTOBER 24, 2015, 2 p.m.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

1837 N. BROAD STREET, PHILADELPHIA

A work in progress, “B Cell City” is a multimedia electronic opera in real time, conceived by Antonio Lai da Teulada, a native of Sardinia, Italy. 

Temple University Provost Hai-Lung Dai and Consult General Andrea Canepari, Consulate General of Italy, will greet attendees.  

Antonio Lai da Teulada will introduce the team and the project. Dr. Antonio Giordano, Temple University professor in the College of Science and Technology and director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, will discuss the relevance and importance of the marriage of science and art and how, in this context, the artist's role of global citizen is highlighted and the doctor/scientist becomes an artist. Maestro Valery Ryvkin, artistic director of Temple Opera, and soprano Darynn Zimmer, musical liaison for CAM Art Co., will discuss the collaboration with the internationally renowned sound team of Alvise Vidolin from Venice, Italy, and composer Luca Richelli, who are preparing the music.

Discussion follows with librettist Charles Matz who will describe the genesis of the poetic text and the meaning of body and soul, in the context of western civilization. Professor Matz taught at the University Institute for Modern Languages in Milan for 20 years.

The program includes a presentation of selected pieces of the original art work by Antonio Lai da Teulada; video/sound presentation by Clare Ann Matz, technical director for CAM Art Co., Parma, Italy; and Roberto Fabbriciani, master flutist, from Florence. There will also be a performance excerpt by Dr. Giordano, chorus, and Darynn Zimmer, conducted by Maestro Ryvkin. A reception follows the program.

This event is part of Ciao Philadelphia 2015, Italian Cultural Month. For more information, click here.