Roberto Cascio

Roberto Cascio is the founder and director of the Cappella Musicale di San Giacomo Maggiore di Bologna.

He is also the artistic Director of the festival “Microfestival di Musica Antica e Teatro” whose activity takes places at the “Oratorio della Beata Vergine di Caravaggio”, which is part of the “Museo della Civiltà Contadina” in Cremona. He graduated in lute at the Royal College of London with Jacob Lindberg and at the Conservatory of Verona with Orlando Cristoforetti. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Società del Liuto in 2020-1. He is the founder of the company Teatro Antico, with which several comedies, intermezzi and sacred representations written between the sixteenth and eighteenth century were realized in a scenic form and with stage music (realized by the Cappella Musicale di San Giacomo). They also realized scenic representations of several intermezzi.
He realized several published recordings, among which the complete works of the Tuscan Augustinian Ippolito Ghezzi. For Da Vinci Publishing he edited the scores of Ippolito Ghezzi’s complete oeuvre, and Il Filosofo, an intermezzo by Lorenzo Petronio Gibelli, on lyrics by Carlo Goldoni. In 2020 he received an important official token of recognition from the Prior of the General Order of the Augustinian Fathers, thanks to the results of his activity of research, transcription and realization of the music, and, in general, of the culture of the Augustinian Order.