ABSTRACT
Collage was a seminal occurrence in many respects: like most of the fully-staged new music theatre works conceived in Rome, it’s planning and production involved a representative of other neo-avant-garde disciplines, the painter and man of theatre Achille Perilli. Many young composers were able to begin their teaching jobs shortly after graduation, often in new conservatories that were opening throughout the peninsula and could be easily reached from Rome. Aside from the job domain, Rome was thereby becoming an even more appealing city as far as culture and lifestyle are concerned. Especially in the earlier part of the period under consideration, the paradigm most frequently adopted by Roman creators of new music theatre was that of counterpoint between the media-layers. The Compagnia del teatro musicale di Roma represents the first serious Roman attempt to develop, out of established networks, a proposal for the creation and circulation of a new music theatre.
