Franco Battiato at Malpensa: performance between music, travel and avant-garde
Those transiting through Milan Malpensa on Thursday 19 November can attend a special event dedicated to Franco Battiato. At 11:30 a.m., at the Porta di Milano of Terminal 1, "Battiat♾️ttanta. The Avant-garde Sound and the Poetics of Travel" will be staged, a performance included in the program of Milan Music Week 2026.
The project, conceived by Roberto Sarzi Amadè and Flavio Pugliese (Flay), proposes a reinterpretation of Battiato's most experimental and electronic phase, with particular attention to the musical research developed in the seventies between synthesizers, minimalism and new sound languages.
Livio Magnini of Bluvertigo, Lele Battista, Luca Urbani, Virginia Sutera, Lorenzo Palmeri, Luciano d'Abbruzzo, Alessandro Grazian, Mattia Del Conte, Claudio Chiodi, Paolo Bilardi, Giuseppe Fiori and Walzer will take turns on stage.
The performance will take place in the setting of Sara Forte's Rock Icons exhibition, creating a dialogue between music and visual arts within the exhibition space of Terminal 1.
For passengers and visitors, the event thus adds cultural content to the airport experience, transforming the Milan Gate of Milan Malpensa (MXP) into an open and international stage. And, the theme of travel, central to Battiato's work, finds a particularly coherent framework in this context, between departures, arrivals and people on the move.
