Canti di viaggio

On 26 July, Elena Minetti and Michael Kerstan will present the 2nd Italian edition of Henze's autobiography, Canti di Viaggio. Una vita, this time in Rimini as part of the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, the large music festival of Emilia Romagna. Afterwards there will be a performance of El Cimarrón with Italian musicians and the American baritone Nicholas Isherwood.

On 28 March, the editors Elena Minetti, Gastón Fournier Facio and Michael Kerstan will present the 2nd Italian edition of Henze's autobiography Canti di Viaggio. Una vita in Milan with a lecture and photo presentation. They had been invited by the Friends of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, who reside in the spacious villa of Signora Anna Crespi Morbio just behind the opera house, and were attended by an interested and enthusiastic audience.

In August 2016, Elena Minetti, Gastón Fournier Facio and Michael Kerstan are working on the revision of the Italian edition of Henze's two autobiographical volumes in several phases at La Leprara.

After the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke and his expulsion from Switzerland, Dutschke recovers at La Leprara, 1968. Excerpt from the autobiography "Reiselieder mit böhmischen Quinten: Autobiographische Mitteilungen 1926–1995"