Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer, born in Albano Laziale, near Rome, in 1953. In the 1970s he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel, and he works mostly in opera and experimental music theatre. His works include Experimentum Mundi (1981), a piece performed by artisans at work alongside female voices, an actor and a percussionist. In 2022 the Venice Biennale gave him its Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Battistelli co-founded the improvisation group Edgard Varèse and the instrumental ensemble Beat '72.