Mr Baldocci

Mr Baldocci: Post-Truth Music-Theatre.

Mr Baldocci is a music-theatre spectacle for acting pianist, answerphone machine, stereo, and stage props conceived and composed by Simone Spagnolo, and inspired and performed by internationally acclaimed pianist Gabriele Baldocci.

Constellated by a multitude of musical memories, citations, and interrupted beginnings sourced from the cultivated and popular past, Mr Baldocci portrays a man looking for his own identity, which ultimately reveals to be manifold and inconsistent.

Fragments and citations, through poly-stylistic interweaving, draw from collective and individual musical memories to eventually capture a liquid identity, forming a metaphorical representation of our contemporary post-truth condition. Mr Baldocci also questions the role of the composer in a post-truth world, reimagining his craft as that of a stealer and falsifier: that steals to recompose, and that forges to create alternative truths.

Written between 2022 and 2024, Mr Baldocci premiered in Lawrence Hall, at the London College of Music, as part of the 2025 LCM Composition Festival, and it will  tour in Europe in the spring of 2026.

• Tickets: £15 full price, £12 concession (under 18 and over 60)
• Note: This event is not suitable for children under 13 years old