Biography
Tullio Zanovello (*1962, Zurich) is a composer, painter, librettist and inventor of the Bildmaschinen — motorised, computer-controlled altarpieces that unfold in synchrony with specially composed music. His works unite painting, music and word into a Gesamtkunstwerk.
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- The Bildmaschinen trilogy: Imago, Image, Imagination
- The choral opera Richard III – Seduction of Power (Craiova 2012/2016)
- The orchestration of "Compassion" on Tina Turner's album Love Within (2014)
- Gotthard – Das Reduit (Sasso San Gottardo, 2018)
- Current operas: Die Versager, Requiem burlesque
- Spleen (2024) and Art and Life (2025/26)
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Operas for today — a position statement on my music (2020)
I tell stories of today using contemporary narrative techniques. At the same time, I take my bearings from the old operatic tradition and seek to carry it forward in a contemporary way.
I write deliberately tonal music with a modern sonic language.
The real caesura in the history of music is not twelve-tone composition, but the abolition of melody.
Independence is a composer's highest good.
Simple musical language that is clear and understood — that is the high art.
Great emotions are the reason opera is written.
Ritorniamo all'antico è sarà un progresso.
— Giuseppe Verdi