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Giorgio Battistelli

Born: 25th April 1953, Albano Laziale, Rome, Italy

Nationality: Italian

Giorgio Battistelli is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. A native of Albano Laziale (province of Rome), he studied at the conservatory in L'Aquila and is a former student of Stockhausen and Kagel. Battistelli has written nearly 20 operas on subjects ranging from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopaedia to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. His opera CO2, based on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, premiered at La Scala in 2015.

His opera Wake was premiered by the Birmingham Opera Company in March 2018 and is inspired by the story of Lazarus being brought back from the dead.

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