Beethoven and the Classical Style 
Speaker: Fabio Sartorelli

Fabio Sartorelli

Fabio Sartorelli teaches History of Music at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan and the "Guide to Listening to Opera and Ballet" syllabus at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He regularly delivers courses and lectures for the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, in collaboration with Bocconi University in Milan and the Piccolo Teatro, and for the Ca' Foscari University in Venice.

He is lecturer, past or present, on opera and ballet in major Italian and foreign institutions, including the Petruzzelli Foundation in Bari, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the National Opera Theatre in Bucharest, Verona Arena Foundation in Verona, Milan per La Scala (at the Palazzo Clerici and the Circolo Filologico in Milan), Bracco Foundation (in the little theatre of the Palazzo Visconti), the Museo del Novecento, the Mantua Chamber Music Festival, the Toscanini Auditorium in Parma, the Padua University, the Teatro Sferisterio in Macerata, the Bocconi University, the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana and Teatro Galli in Rimini and the Bozen Festival for the Busoni-Mahler Foundation in Bolzano.

For the 10th anniversary of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, he edited the texts of a commemorative volume published by Mondadori. Between 2012 and 2013, he produced for the Fondazione Bracco in Milan two catalogues devoted respectively to the costumes of the Puccini and the Verdi operas.

In December 2014, the book "Giorgio Strehler, un uomo per Milano, un teatro per l'Europa" was published with his own contributions, along with those of Alberto Bentoglio and Maurizio Porro, film critic at the Corriere della Sera. Since February 2016, he has been giving regular talks at the Museo teatrale alla Scala as part of the "Che spettacolo di museo" initiative. These relate to the works presented at the theatre itself and include the participation of young actors from the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

In 2022, it edited the publication "20 anni di Accademia, 200 di storia" to mark the 20th anniversary of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala as a foundation under private law.

For over twenty years, he has been the artistic director of a major concert season, which takes place between autumn and spring in Varese at the Salone Estense and the Basilica di San Vittore. He is vice-president of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

Fabio Sartorelli studied composition and obtained a piano diploma at the Milan Conservatory. He graduated with honours in musicology from the University of Bologna.