Marco Tutino
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Marco Tutino (born 1954) is an Italian living composer. His emergence during the late 1970's was as the spearhead of an Italian Neo-Romantico group, founded with two other composers, Lorenzo Ferrero and Carlo Galante. At a later stage Tutino’s works were conceived so as to deflate attention to their style, and rather aimed at obtaining a politically correct and socially relevant consensus – as shown by his participation to the collective Requiem Mass for the Victims of the Mafia given in Palermo in March 1993, on the eve of judges Borsellino and Falcone's mafia killings, or by works like Song of Peace, and Vita ("Life") – a free operatic rendering of Mike Nichols's movie Wit, dealing with illness and death. He has composed operas, chamber music and symphonic works which have been performed by important Italian orchestras and concert societies. Some of them have reached the attention of programmers of music institutions in other countries, notably the BBC Philharmonic, The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Tutino was sentimentally attached to Cecilia Chailly, sister of its principal conductor at the time, Riccardo Chailly), the Copenhagen Radio Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco chamber orchestra.
During the first part of his career, he showed a fixation with children themes. His first opera, performed in 1985 at the Genoa Opera, was a morbid, melancholic version of Pinocchio. In 1987, he then composed for an Opera Workshop in the provincial capital of Alessandria (Piedmont, Italy) a second opera Cyrano, loosely derived from Rostand's drama, and intended as a showcase for Laura Cherici, a soprano who would become his inspiration and long-time partner. In September 1990 he presented a new opera in Livorno, La Lupa, commissioned by Alberto Paloscia (to whom the opera was eventually dedicated) to further the cause of Verismo on the 100th Anniversary of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana: the most notable feature of the opera was the insertion of a recording of Italian pop singer Peppino di Capri, which caused quite a sensation.
He has composed instrumental works as well, among which are the Sinfonietta for the Moscow-Montpellier Soloists (1994), Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (1995), and The Last Eagle, a flute concerto performed by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Tutino has also composed a ballet, Richard III; a musical comedy, Il gatto con gli stivali (Puss in Boots); and a Kyrie and Agnus Dei for the Jubilaeum celebrations at the Vatican in August, 2000, thereby disclosing a hitherto unknown religious commitment.
Perhaps suffering from what he felt as disregard for his music, Tutino decided in the early 1990's to turn to the artistic directorship of Italian musical institutions. From 1991 to 1994 he programmed for the Pomeriggi Musicali chamber orchestra in Milan. He was then invited as a composer in residence at the Verona Arena. He then became artistic director of Turin's Teatro Regio, and is now (late 2006) doubling as general and artistic manager of Bologna's Teatro Comunale.
