Verdi’s operas and director’s theatre
To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi and as part of many celebrations
promoted by various Italian and international institutions, the Institute of Music and the Giorgio Cini Foundation Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Drama and Opera have organised a conference on contemporary productions of Verdi’s operas, curated by Maria Ida Biggi and Michele Girardi.
Programme
10am
La messinscena verdiana, da ieri a oggi
Introduction by Maria Ida Biggi e Michele Girardi
Participate: Alessandra Campana, Gerardo Guccini, Clemens Risi, Mercedes Viale Ferrero
3pm
Lo spettacolo verdiano oggi
Round table
In 2011 the Study Centre forDocumentary Research into European Drama and Operaofficially opened Eleonora Duse’s Room, a space permanently dedicated to the memory of the great Italian actress.
BOOKED VISITS ONLY
The archive room can be visited free of charge on Wednesday afternoons as of 5 December 3.30 pm by booking only and for a limited number of people.
For information and bookings Secretary’s officetel.+39 041 2710236
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail
teatromelodramma@cini.itThe idea of creating a room dedicated to the actressstemmed from the desire to make the Eleonora DuseArchive in the Giorgio Cini Foundation a place open to the public, to be visited and explored.
The valuable collection of material kept in the Study Centrefor Documentary Research into European Drama and Opera is a very rich resource for studying the life and art of the fascinating diva who came to Venice in search of acongenial environment and a house, where she then lived for many years.
This new space has been designed to exhibit some of the documents in the rich archive, such as autograph items, including letters, scripts, accounts documents and company registers, as well as original photographs, personal items, clothes and part of her furniture. In addition to the small permanent exhibition intended to recreate a corner of Eleonora Duse’s house, the extraordinary rich documents will make it possible to present and explore various themes related to her art or individual periods in her life. Such themes will also form the guidelines for temporary exhibitions.
The room has been designed to make more use of the invaluable Duse Archive in the Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera in the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
Mostra
1 ottobre- 31 ottobre 2012
lunedì – venerdì 9 -16.30
martedì – venerdì 9 -18.30
sabato e domenica la mostra sarà visitabile esclusivamente all’interno dell’itinerario delle visite guidate (tel. 041.2201215)
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Biblioteca della Nuova Manica Lunga
ingresso libero
Da lunedì 1 ottobre una mostra di bozzetti di scena delle regie di Lugi Squarzina nell’ambito del Convegno LUIGI SQUARZINA Drammaturgo, regista teatrale e studioso in collaborazione con l’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei di Roma,
I bozzetti di scena, figurini e modellini delle regie di Luigi Squarzina che saranno esposti provengono dalle collezioni private degli scenografi Giovanni Agostinucci, Gianfranco Padovani e Pier Luigi Pizzi, che hanno lavorato con il Maestro nel corso della loro carriera. Vi saranno bozzetti da: Il Gattopardo (1967), Turandot (1969), I Rusteghi (1969), Madre Courage e i suoi figli (1970), Il fu Mattia Pascal (1974), Lord Byron (1988) Tosca (1990), L’obbligo del primo comandamento (1991), La Locandiera (1991), Barbiere di Siviglia (1992), Cavalleria Rusticana e Pagliacci (1996).
Proiezioni
1- 6 ottobre 2102, ore 10 – 17
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Sala Antitesoro
ingresso libero
Dal 1 al 6 ottobre dalle ore 10 alle 17 nella Sala Antitesoro, è allestita una Sala proiezioni, dove, grazie alla media-partnership con RAI Radio3, è possibile vedere e ascoltare materiale audio e video inedito, proveniente dagli Archivi RAI, come interviste a Luigi Squarzina, registrazioni di sue regie come Tre quarti di luna (1956) e Il Pantografo (1960). In particolare sarà possibile ascoltare per la prima volta dopo sessant’anni l’Amleto del ’52 con la regia di Luigi Squarzina e Vittorio Gassman, restaurato per l’occasione da RAI Radio3.
In collaboration with the Accademia dei Lincei and under the patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Drama and Opera, is organising an international conference dedicated to the work of stage director and playwright Luigi Squarzina.
Curated by Maria Ida Biggi, the conference is divided into several sessions over three days and will be attended by university professors and junior researchers. The programme will be completed by two round tables in which collaborators will recall the fi gure of Squarzina and some of his actors will read from his work.
The conference has been organised to pay homage to a great artist who bequeathed his private library to the Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Drama and Opera at the Giorgio Cini Foundation.
The conference has the support of the Department of Philosophy and the Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio e Banca del Monte di Lugo and the Veneto Region. It will also have the media partnership of RAI RADIO 3.
To mark the donation of Luigi Squarzina’s rich library to the Giorgio
Cini Foundation, two Study Days devoted to the director and playwright
will be held on 18 and 19 October 2011 Venice.
Consisting of around 5,000 volumes, this library collection put together
by one of the great figures in Italian theatre in the second half of
the 20th century will be a vital resource for studies on his work as a
playwright and translator.
PROGRAMMA
Mercoledì 19 ottobre ore 9.30
La biblioteca di Luigi Squarzina: fonti e documentazioni per la storia dello spettacolo
Tavola rotonda con:
Elena BARTONI (Roma)
Maria Ida BIGGI (Università Ca’ Foscari e Fondazione Cini)
Silvia Danesi SQUARZINA (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
Elio TESTONI (Fondazione Istituto Gramsci)
Alessandro TINTERRI (Università degli studi di Perugia)
AI termine verrà presentato l’ultimo numero
della rivista Ariel dedicato ad Alessandro D’Amico e Luigi Squarzina.
To mark the donation of Luigi Squarzina’s rich library to the Giorgio Cini Foundation, two Study Days devoted to the director and playwright will be held on 18 and 19 October 2011 Venice.
Consisting of around 5,000 volumes, this library collection put together by one of the great figures in Italian theatre in the second half of the 20th century will be a vital resource for studies on his work as a playwright and translator.
During the Study Days several issues will be addressed concerning the collection of documents and the documentation of the history of theatre as well as how to preserve the memory of artistic activities in the field of stage direction. Papers will be given by Carmelo Alberti, Franca Angelini, Elena Bartoni, Maria Ida Biggi, Silvia Danesi Squarzina,
Paolo Puppa, Elio Testoni, Alessandro Tinterri and Pier Mario Vescovo.
Info
Centro studi per la ricerca documentale sul teatro e il melodramma europeo
tel.+39 041 2710234
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail teatromelodramma@cini.it
Tuesday 12 May 2009, 6.30pm
Salone degli Arazzi
A theatrical sonic jurney inspired by and dedicated to the city of Venice and its lagoon. The performance takes the audience through a number of sonic and musical scenarios, as if it was wandering through an imaginary Venice. Along the way one might catch elements of the Venetian tradition and culture, past and present, glimpses of Comedia dell’Arte and references to Luigi Nono abd the Venetian ‘spatial’music of the XVI and XVII centuries.
Venusia combines music and theatre into a single expresssive form, using the actors’ movements to generate and control paramenters of sound including pitch, volume, spatial position and motion in a 3D surround sound setup. The mapping technology, developed by Andrea Santini in collaboration with Dave Hunt and Middlesex University, London, allows to map phisical gesture and translate it into ‘sound gestures’, capable of creating a spectacular and immersive sound dramaturgy.
Info www.ubikteatro.com
Tuesday 12 May 2009, 6.30pm
Salone degli Arazzi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia
Free entrance
Bookings: info@ubikteatro.com
Over the past century a vast public has venerated and preserved the memory of Eleonora Duse. She has been cherished like an object of cult, her story passed down from parent to child, blending history and legend in fervid approximation. Numerous biographies and magazine articles have been published about her, and numerous exhibitions held on her throughout the world.
The Cini Foundation, which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary in 2001, has witnessed this constant interest in the ‘divina’ Eleonora first hand. Possessing the largest archives of the actress’ letters and documents, it has granted biographers and scholars the assurance of finding material for their research in the archives at San Giorgio. The latter contain hundreds of letters, written by Eleonora or sent to her from all over the world by important personalities in literature and theatre or unknown admirers, and various documents including personal papers, memoirs and photographs of her tournées in Europe and the Americas. The memory of the intimate Eleonora is preserved in her correspondence with her first great love, Arrigo Boito, poet and dramatist, and in the letters to her daughter Enrichetta, written in a unique blend of Italian and French which intertwines maternal tenderness and poetry. It was actually Enrichetta’s daughter, a nun who took on the name of Sister Mary of St Mark, who donated this exceptional collection to the Cini Foundation in 1968. The archives has since been enriched by subsequent donations and now comprises a wealth of material including part of the actress’ wardrobe and a precious Cartier watch, engraved with two ‘D’s’, perhaps a gift to D’Annunzio.
Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
30 September 2001 – 6 January 2002
Information
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The exhibition has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Zagreb and the Institute of Literature, Theatre and Opera at the Giorgio Cini Foundation. It will remain open through mid-November and displays a wide selection from the Duse Collection at the Foundation in Venice, which conserves bequests made by the actress’ granddaughter Sister Mary of St Mark and other scholars and admirers of the actress.
Among the elements on display are ten of the actress’ costume-gowns made by prestigious designers such as Mariano Fortuny, Paul Poiret, Worth and S. Bellom; forty original photographs dated between 1885 and 1921, taken by important photographers of the times such as Mario Nunes Vais, Paul Audouard, Giuseppe Primoli, Aimà Dupont, Gio. Batta Sciutto and by the actress herself of Gabriele D’Annunzio. There are also objects that once belonged to Duse, such as passaports, coin purses, silver cigarette cases and matchbox holders, glasses, gloves, personal agendas, as well as annotated scripts, autograph letters and books dedicated to D’Annunzio.
The exhibition installation makes use of several pieces from the exhibition Divina Eleonora held at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in 2001: mannequins resembling the actress, elements from stage set designs and various large-scale photographs. The exhibition is accompanied by a small catalogue, which contains essays by Croatian scholars of theatre such as Nikola Batusichas and has been published through the efforts of Miroslav Gasparivic, MUO director, in accordance with Flavio Andreis, director of the Italian Cultural Institute.
Zagreb, Museum of Arts & Crafts (MUO)
28 September – 31 October 2004
Information
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tel.+39 041 2710234 – fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail: iltm@cini.it
