Brazilian pianist Marcelo Bratke, Italian actor Marco Gambino and Brazilian artist Mariannita Luzzati invite audiences on an imaginative journey.

Inspired by Baudelaire’s famous poem, they bring together music, poetry and images exploring distant cultures and places, a source of longing and desire for some of the greatest composers and writers of our time.

The performance is animated with a video by celebrated Brazilian artist Mariannita Luzzati exploring the richness of the landscape as well as with short, charming interludes from talented young musicians studying at World Heart Beat Music Academy.

Biographies

Marcelo Bratke is a musical force to be reckoned with; one of the finest pianists to emerge out of Brazil. He is boundlessly innovative in his programming and performances. From the deep classical tradition, he encompasses a broad range from Mozart to the Les Six and way beyond. 

A national icon in Brazil, this preeminent pianist has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus in Berlin. Marcelo Bratke is an artist whose imagination expands and challenges the classical music universe.

Bratke has a great respect for tradition as an expert in the Viennese school of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg; he is also a great custodian and champion of Brazilian music and culture. His concerts illuminate the classical and popular music of his homeland with the artistry of Heitor Villa Lobos, Ernesto Nazareth, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dori Caymmi and Milton Nascimento.

Marco Gambino

Marco Gambino is a London-based Italian actor whose career spans theatre, television, and film.

He has appeared in popular Italian and International TV series, including Young Montalbano, Emmerdale, The Boss of the Bosses, Squadra Antimafia, Romolo and Giuly, and, more recently, the acclaimed Those About to Die.

His film credits include The International, Il Traditore, and Finally Dawn.

Marco is also known for his multilingual monologues, such as Words of Honor, Othello’s Guilt, and Maria Callas: The Black Pearl.

His artistic collaboration with pianist Marcelo Bratke dates back to 2013, when their Invitation au Voyage was first presented at London’s Purcell Room.

Mariannita Luzzati

Mariannita Luzzati is a Brazilian visual artist from São Paulo recognized for her extensive study of landscapes. Painter, engraver, designer and video artist, Mariannita Luzzati studied at the Istituto per L’Arte e il Restauro (Palazzo Spinelli) in Florence, Italy and later in Brazil with the artists Carlos Fajardo, Carmela Gross and Evandro Carlos Jardim, holding her first institutional exhibitions in the late 1980s and participating in the Contemporary Art Salons in São Paulo Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.  

She was one of the artists chosen for the exhibition Mulheres Artistas e Brasileiras^[6] held in honor of President Dilma Rousseff in 2011 at the Palácio do Planalto in Brasília on the visit of the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to Brazil.

In 2021, the Figueiredo Ferraz Institute (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil), celebrating its 10 years of activities, held a large retrospective exhibition of the work of Mariannita Luzzati, entitled “Paisagens Possíveis” (Possible Landscapes).