SONORA IMAGO

Concert Polyptych for Female Voice, Extended Piano & Live Video
(Premiere: October 2026)

Sonora Imago is a staged multimedia production conceived by Italian film director and audiovisual artist Francesco Leprino.

Structured as a concert polyptych, the performance moves through more than a millennium of musical history — from Gregorian chant to contemporary composition — reimagined through extended piano techniques, vocal transformation and live visual dramaturgy.

The piano refuses to remain “civilised”. Through radical timbral exploration and newly commissioned rewritings by contemporary composers, historical works by Bach, Purcell, Liszt, Mozart, Debussy and others are reframed within a present-day sonic language.

On stage, the bodies of the two performers — pianist Veronique Vanhoucke and vocalist/pianist Silvia Pepe — become part of the visual composition. Live video multiplies, fragments and transforms their presence, evoking references to classical and modern painting. Gesture, sound and image merge into a suspended, nocturnal and ritualistic atmosphere.

Conceived as an homage to Bill Viola, Sonora Imago dissolves boundaries between flesh and spirit, sensuality and transcendence. Music is not presented as heritage, but as living matter — reactivated through contemporary perception.

Duration: approx. 65 minutes
Performers:
Silvia Pepe – voice, piano, body performance
Veronique Vanhoucke – piano, body performance
Francesco Leprino – live video

Artistic Supervisor: Giuseppe Buzzanca
Movement Coach: Rosita Mariani