IL LIBRO DELLA GIUNGLA

Giovanni Sollima is an internationally renowned cellist and among the most performed contemporary Italian composers in the world. Acclaimed for writing without genre boundaries, from classical to popular music, he has collaborated with Riccardo Muti, Yo-Yo Ma, Viktoria Mullova, Patti Smith, Stefano Bollani, Elisa and Paolo Fresu and has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Salle Gaveau in Paris and La Scala in Milan. For film, theater, television and dance, he has written and performed music for artistists like Peter Greenaway, John Turturro, Bob Wilson, Carlos Saura, Karole Armitage and Carolyn Carlson. With The Jungle Book, which premiered at the Kiel Theatre in 2020, he created a family opera based on one of the most famous classics of British colonial literature (Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936). The coming-of-age story of a child raised among wild animals and his search for identity away from civilization was made famous by Walt Disney’s 1967 movie.