Listening with the Eyes

MITO 2025’s slew of offerings also includes music that may be “seen” with the eyes. Returning this year are sounds that inhabit unorthodox spaces – not only physical ones – and concerts that spill over into the realms of theater and performance. This is music that intertwines with images, movement and thought, creating multisensory experiences that transcend even the geographical boundaries of the traditional concert.

Looking to the East, The Book of Women is inspired by two striking images: the Virgin Mary punching out Satan in a 13th-century prayer book, and the Hindu goddess Durga from Sanskrit mythology, with flaming eyes and armed to free the earth from evil. An ensemble of early music vocalists, a contemporary music group, and Indian singer Varijashree Venugopal join forces in an engaging fusion of medieval music for female voices and contemporary music for voice, ensemble and electronics. The composition by Riccardo Nova is inspired by the Mahabharata.

Hauch #2 is a spatial polyphonic installation where musical and choreographic elements interact with a collage of original compositions assembled by Rebecca Saunders for Ensemble Modern. Here, Saunders, long driven by a desire to integrate dance into her music, is joined by the dancers of CocoonDance. There’s dance at Le Roi as well, featuring the piano and keyboards of Francesco Tristano, who blends classical piano traditions with contemporary experimentation.

Music for contemplation is found in Nomadic, a reflective work by Telmo Pievani on human and animal migration as a fundamental catalyst for diversity and species evolution. It merges science and visual art with the music of Gianni Maroccolo.

Scheduled events

Torino /

Musiche di Alban Berg e Hector Berlioz

Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino

Martina Baroni mezzosoprano

Giulio Cilona direttore

Gold and Silver Carnets 
Symphony Pass 
Assigned Seating €20 and €15

Milano /
Teatro Bruno Munari / at

UNA VITA IN MUSICA: AMADÉ E NANNERL

Una favola in forma-sonata con Mirjam Schiavello e Pasquale Buonarota
Orchestra di allievi dei Conservatori di Milano e Torino
Emanuele Marino
direttore

Assigned Seats € 10, under 14 € 5

Torino /

Nomadic
Canto per la biodiversità

di Telmo Pievani e Gianni Maroccolo

Gold Carnet
Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating € 15

Torino /

Una vita in musica: Amadé e Nannerl

Una vita in musica: Amadé e Nannerl

Una favola in forma-sonata con Mirjam Schiavello e Pasquale Buonarota

Orchestra di allievi dei Conservatori di Torino e Milano

Emanuele Marino direttore

Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating € 5
As for all MITO SettembreMusica performances in Torino, admission is €1 for concert-goers 14 and under. 

Piemonte /

Otto brani eseguiti in otto punti diversi del museo

Musiche di Claude Debussy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Luciano Berio, Georg Philipp Telemann, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Lowell Liebermann, Edgard Varèse, Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Alberto Navarra flauto

Admission to the museum € 10

Torino /

Una vita in musica: Amadé e Nannerl

Una vita in musica: Amadé e Nannerl

Una favola in forma-sonata con Mirjam Schiavello e Pasquale Buonarota

Orchestra di allievi dei Conservatori di Torino e Milano

Emanuele Marino direttore

 

Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating € 5
As for all MITO SettembreMusica performances in Torino, admission is €1 for concert-goers 14 and under. 

Milano /
Teatro Martinitt / at

THE BOOK OF WOMEN

Musiche di Riccardo Nova 

Ictus Ensemble / Irini Ensemble
Varijashree Venugopal
voce
Lila Hajosi direttrice

Gold Carnet
Assigned Seats € 10

Torino /

Riccardo Nova

The book of women | Strl parvam per cantante carnatica, tre voci femminili ed ensemble

Irini Ensemble / Ictus Ensemble 

Varijashree Venugopal voce

Lila Hajosi direttore

 

Gold Carnet 
Revolutionary Pass  
Assigned Seating € 10

Torino /
Teatro Provvidenza / at

Musiche di Aleksandr Čerepnin, Darius Milhaud, Paul Creston, Eugène Bozza, André Jolivet, Pedro Iturralde, Bill Dobbins, Ryo Noda, Barry Cockcroft
Serendipity Duo
Studenti del Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi di Alessandria

 

Musiche di Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saëns
Drei Klänge Trio
Studenti del Conservatorio Federico Ghedini di Cuneo

Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating €5

Torino /

Falstaff: burattini e burle

Tratto da Falstaff di Giuseppe Verdi

Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating €5 
For those 14 and under, admission to performance: €1; admission to workshop: €1. 

From 3 years old

Torino /

Falstaff: burattini e burle

Tratto da Falstaff di Giuseppe Verdi

Revolutionary Pass 
Assigned Seating €5 
For those 14 and under, admission to performance: €1; admission to workshop: €1. 

From 3 years old

Torino /
Le Roi Music Hall / at

piano 2.0

Musiche di Matteo Franceschini, Luciano Berio, Francesco Tristano

Francesco Tristano pianoforte

Gold Carnet
Revolutionary Pass 
General Admission €15

Milano /
Teatro Dal Verme / at

ENSEMBLE MODERN
COCOONDANCE COMPANY

Un collage musicale in una coreografia di Rafaële Giovanola in collaborazione con i danzatori di CocoonDance Company

Gold and Silver Carnets
Assigned Seats € 15, € 10