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Shakespeare’s The Tempest – the most musical of his plays – is evoked through the sounds and languages of the Mediterranean. This concert moves from Renaissance repertoire to original compositions that explore the great themes of Shakespeare’s work.

Maddalena Pennacchia
After a long hiatus, Maddalena Pennacchia has returned to singing. She has recently studied vocal technique with Stefania Patané and Tati Valle, and interpretation with Gretchen Parlato.
Her debut album, BRIZA, was released by AlfaMusic in 2021.
Long fascinated by Brazilian rhythms and melodies, in which she has specialised, she has recently renewed her interest in the Neapolitan classical song tradition. Drawing on these cultural roots, she contributed to Elements in the Storm through lyric writing and the performance of selected pieces.

Juliano Abramovay
Juliano Abramovay is a researcher and musician. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in classical guitar and a Master’s degree in compositional processes, he broadened his horizons beyond traditional guitar techniques, dedicating himself to the study of the oud and of Greek and Turkish traditional music at Codarts University of the Arts, where he obtained a second Master’s degree with distinction.
He recently completed his PhD in Ethnomusicology at Durham University. Among his recent publications is the co-authored chapter “The Absent Teacher Approach” in the volume Music Performance Encounters.
Juliano is involved in numerous projects, including Duo Cobogo and the Amazonon Ensemble, and teaches at Codarts.

Michele Gazich
Michele Gazich is a musician, poet, artistic producer, composer and singer-songwriter. He has worked professionally in music since the early 1990s, touring in Italy, Europe and the United States. He has collaborated with Italian, European and American songwriters including Michelle Shocked, Mary Gauthier, Eric Andersen and Mark Olson, as well as orchestras and theatre productions – notably in an ongoing artistic collaboration with Moni Ovadia.
His work also includes poetry performances, film soundtracks, and teaching at universities and conservatoires in Italy and abroad. To date, he has contributed to over fifty albums and released twelve under his own name. A multiple finalist for the Targa Tenco award, he participated in the tour and production of Mary Gauthier’s Grammy-nominated album Rifles & Rosary Beads.

Sarra Douik
Sarra Douik is a singer and oud player. She graduated from the “A. Pedrollo” Conservatoire in Vicenza. She has taken part in international projects such as OneBeat, collaborating with leading artists and recording her first composition, Netfakker, released in 2019 with Found Sound Nation, Medinea – Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée and Halaqat.
She currently collaborates with several artists in Italy, including Marco Centasso (Um/Welt, winner of Nuova Generazione Jazz 2024), Giacomo Papetti, Massimiliano Milesi and Dudù Kouate (Dimidiam Endless Migration), and Alvise Seggi (Orientalis); and in Belgium with Adèle Viret, Zé Almeida and Pierre Hurty (Nawā).
In recent years she has recorded several albums, including Live at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Fuga Libera), Suite Vicentina (Bacàn) and Um/Welt (Parco della Musica Records).

Sara Maria Fantini
She began studying medieval music with Peppe Frana and completed a Master’s degree in medieval lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Marc Lewon. She has performed at numerous festivals in Italy and across Europe with various ensembles, including Micrologus, Rubens Rosa, La Chapelle des Ducs de Savoie and Oneiroi. In 2016 she won the Italia Medievale Prize with the ensemble Aubespine.
In 2019 she founded the musical project Fragmenta, recording the CD Vai lavar cabelos na fontana fría for the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 2021 and 2022 she performed at the Royaumont Festival, subsequently receiving two artistic residencies from the same foundation.
She graduated with honours in Literature and in Musicology, and completed a PhD in Romance Philology at the University of Siena, jointly supervised with the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.

What if Othello were not a seasoned general, but a young man?

Adolescence sails through a storm, not only the hormonal one, but also the storm marked by uncertainty and a fragile sense of identity. Young people do not look back to a world of inherited privilege – a world they do not truly know – but instead confront a crisis that leaves them facing an empty horizon.

Performed by the student actors of Shakespeare Factory, directed by Loredana Scaramella, this new staging reimagines Othello through the restless, shifting lens of youth, exploring vulnerability, belonging and the search for self in a world that offers few certainties.

Romeo and Juliet – A Crime Story is a radio drama that reinterprets William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet in a contemporary key. Borrowing the narrative mechanisms of crime fiction and interweaving them with the events of Shakespeare’s tragedy, the students of the university radio company Literary Soundscapes explore the complex layers of the original text, revisiting its themes through a distinctly innovative lens.

Written collectively by the company, the script emerges from an in-depth analysis of the original play – its themes and its characters – under the guidance of Professors Lucia Esposito and Maddalena Pennacchia.

Originally recorded for radio broadcast, Romeo and Juliet – A Crime Story is presented here as an intermedial staged reading, interspersed with a conversation between Shakespeare scholars.

Literary Soundscapes is the radio company of the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Roma Tre University. Founded in 2024 by Professors Maddalena Pennacchia and Lucia Esposito, the company focuses on adapting classical and contemporary literary texts for radio. Through workshop-based sessions, students are actively involved in every stage of the creative process, from textual analysis and script development to performance, recording, editing and final broadcast on Roma Tre Radio.