Piccolo Teatro Strehler
2025
After Venice and Trieste, LIVE MUSIC. LIVING FILMS. came to Milan for two dates at Piccolo Teatro Strehler, Italy's first permanent public theater. The Milan run gave the project more space to unfold: not as a one-night premiere, but as a concert format that could change from one performance to the next.
On 7 October, Maxim Vengerov performed with LaFil Milan Philharmonic under Marco Seco. On 8 October, the soloist was Marcello Miramonti. The program included Bela Bartok's Romanian Dances, Ravel's Tzigane, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. For the Romanian dances, OOVIE worked with Eugenio Marongiu; for Ravel, with Dustin Hollywood. OOVIE Studios curated the artistic direction of the films, while the software listened to the live music and let the images react to the performance in real time.
The experience was built to be heard and seen at the same time. The audience was not watching a fixed visual track behind the orchestra; they were watching a film respond to the musicians. That difference matters. It keeps the performers free, keeps the concert alive, and gives new audiences a way into classical music without diluting what makes the music powerful in the first place.
