Luxanime, the new project by Marina Bruno, Ondanueve String Quartet and Michele Maione.
Acoustic and electronic sounds, expansive vocals, popular rhythmic influences, sacred and profane texts, meditative atmospheres, forays into ethnic and baroque music, up to contemporary pop.
Music that comes from distant worlds, styles, eras, cultures.
There is no shortage of creative factors in the genesis of this musical journey, the result of a long-sought encounter by all the protagonists, who have already had the opportunity to collaborate and get to know each other over the years. We are talking about Marina Bruno, protagonist of “La gatta Cenerentola” by Roberto De Simone, with an eclectic vocal personality and a very solid career, the string quartet “Ondanueve String Quartet”, a highly experienced group with illustrious collaborations (Ferzan Özpetek and Paolo Sorrentino, to name a couple), and Michele Maione, a percussionist open to electronics and contamination, now a certainty in the Italian musical panorama.
“Luxanimae” tries to illuminate perhaps the most difficult moment of the last decades for a large part of humanity, and is the result of doubts, reflections, uncertainties, aspirations aimed at creating a line of communication with something “superior”, a sort of entity that can illuminate souls by indicating the path to a return to individual and global serenity.
The first tangible sign is a hypnotic version of Marco Frisina's “Magnificat”, a video clip of which was shot in the extraordinary setting of the Cimitero delle Fontanelle, in Naples, thanks to the kind availability of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples.
Two young and talented Irpinia people then donated light through their precious contribution: Cristian Guarino, stylist, created for Marina Bruno in his atelier in Mirabella Eclano an ad hoc dress, bright, enchanting, while respecting the places, of sober and solemn style and refined elegance. Angela Cava, makeup artist of Aiello del Sabato, illuminated Bruno's face in a natural way, enhancing her features and releasing the energy that distinguishes each of her makeups.
The short film will be released on Easter Sunday 2021, on the main social platforms.
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She studied singing with Michael Aspinall, Maria Pia De Vito and Cristina Florio. Since 1995 she has worked as a protagonist in the works of Roberto De Simone: La gatta Cenerentola, L'Opera dei Centosedici, Li Turchi Viaggiano, Populorum Progressio, L'Opera Buffa del Giovedì Santo, Alla Guainella-Intifada per Masaniello, Requiem in memoriam of PP Pasolini, Eden Teatro, Lo 'ngaudio, Lo vommaro a duello, Instrumental Suite from La gatta Cenerentola, Ecco il Messia, El Diego – concerto n°10 for Maradona and orchestra.
She has performed at the Teatro San Carlo, the Mercadante, the Sky Arte Festival, the Teatrino di corte of the Royal Palace, the Augusteo, the RAI Auditorium, the Maschio Angioino and the Trianon in Naples, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Teatro dei Serici del Belvedere in San Leucio, the Teatro Antico in Taormina, the Teatro Carlo Gesualdo in Avellino, the Teatro dell' Opera in Trapani, the Piccolo and the Manzoni in Milan, the Sistina, the Quirino and the Teatro dell' Orologio in Rome, the Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Morlacchi in Perugia, the La Pergola in Florence, the Radisson in Montevideo, the Teatrino di corte of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Teatro Odyssud and the Salle Nougaro in Toulouse, the Opéra in Lille, and at the festivals in Algiers, Brussels, Marseille, Montpellier, Labeaume, St. Ambroix, Nice, St. Michel, Chartres, Brest, Toulon, Bruges, Patras, Tallinn, Ravello, Sulmona, Merano, Sky Arte, for the Vercelli Quartet Society, for the Turin Folkclub.
He has worked with: Vinicio Capossela, Roberto De Simone, Daniele Sepe, Peppe Barra, Mariano Rigillo, La Dirindina, Glauco Mauri, Javier Girotto, James Senese, Anthony Strong, Enzo Pietropaoli, Gabriele Mirabassi, Solis String Quartet, Franco Javarone, New Popular Singing Company, Neapolis Ensemble, Ernesto Lama, Alfio Antico, New Scarlatti Orchestra, The Soloists of Naples, Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Antonello Paliotti, Antonio Sinagra, dotGuitar Quartet, Armando Pugliese, Enrico Fagnoni, Media Aetas, Orchestra of the Lyric Theater of Cagliari, Walter Proost, Giovanni Mauriello, Carlo Faiello, Francesco Nastro, Aldo Vigorito, Tommaso Scannapieco, Daniele Scannapieco, Jerry Popolo, Riccardo Cavallo, Mimmo Maglionico & Pietrarsa, Aurelio Canonici, Lello The Quartet
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