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Accademia Monteverdi

_{Giuseppe Barberis, Ritratto di Claudio Monteverdi. Fondo Rolandi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini}

Ahead of the 450th anniversary of the birth of Claudio Monteverdi in 2017, the Theatre and Opera Study Centre has organised a concert in collaboration with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, London, directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Entitled Monteverdi 450, the concert will be held in the Sala degli Arazzi, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, at 7.30 pm on Saturday, 30 April.

The concert will bring to a close the third edition of the Accademia Monteverdi to be held in the Fondazione Cini from 25 to 30 April 2016. Personally taught by Sir John, the series of workshops will take the form of preparation for a performance of the Monteverdi trilogy (L’Orfeo, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria, and L’incoronazione of Poppea), planned for the 2017 theatre and concert season. During the week of intensive work, the singers selected for the principal parts will have the opportunity to explore specialist themes and techniques of performance practice in order to explore the links between philological studies and historically informed performances in a contemporary context.

At the final concert the soloists chosen for the project will perform a selection of madrigals and excerpts from the Monteverdi trilogy.

Admission by invitation to be shown on entry, while seats last.

For further information: teatromelodramma@cini.it | +39 041 2710236

Lina Bo Bardi’s contribution to theatre architecture and stage design in Brazil

_{Il Teatro Oficina di São Paolo, progettato da Lina Bo Bardi e Edson Elito. Fondo del Laboratorio de Estudos do Espaço Teatral e Memória Urbana, 2011}

As part of a cooperation project involving the Università di Padova and the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) – VI Missione Lavoro, the Theatre Study Centre is hosting a lecture on the architect Lina Bo Bardi by Professor Evelyn Furquim Werneck Lima from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – Laboratório de Estudos do Espaço Teatral e Memória Urbana.

Entitled Lina Bo Bardi’s contribution to theatre architecture and stage design in Brazil, the lecture will consider examples of Bardi’s projects for redesigned or refurbished theatre interiors as well as stage designs. Prof. Lima will also discuss the architect’s Marxist outlook and her work for theatre and the cultural heritage in general.

Born in Rome in 1914, Lina Bo Bardi moved to Brazil with her husband Pietro Maria Bardi after the war. In São Paulo and Salvador she practiced as a professional architect and was also a university lecturer. From the 1970s to the 1980s she regularly worked on stage designs for theatre and cinema.

Lina Bo Bardi’s contribution to theatre architecture and stage design in Brazil, Sala Barbantini, 10.30 am.

Centro Studi Teatro: teatromelodramma@gmail.com | +39 041 2710236

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La mia piccola trincea

_{La mia piccola trincea, directed by Paola Bigatto and Ambra D’Amico, and performed by students of the Accademia Teatrale Veneta, Teatro Junghans, Venice, December 2015}

As part of the commemorations for the centenary of the Great War, the Theatre Study Centre hosts the show La mia piccola trincea (My Little Trench), first performed by the students of the Accademia Teatrale Veneta in December 2015.

The event is part of the Veneto Region project … la guerre! la guerre! la guerre!, promoted by the drama school in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Musei Civici of Venice, with the aim of offering a different angle on the war and especially on the relationship between art and civil life.

Based on an idea by Maria Ida Biggi and directed by Paola Bigatto and Ambra D’Amico, La mia piccola trincea is inspired by the correspondence between Eleonora Duse and her daughter Enrichetta, published in Ma Pupa, Henriette. According to Gabriele D’Annunzio, the great diva’s style of writing is “rhythmical and spoken; it almost has her voice, eyes and even her gestures”.

The letters that will be read to the audience shape out an unusual narrative to the background of the events in the First World War and its impact on the life of the actress, who deeply sympathised with the suffering of the soldiers. Her powerful, direct testimony urges us to heed the lessons of history.

La mia piccola trincea, Sala Barbantini, h 5.45pm

Theatre and Drama Institute: teatromelodramma@gmail.com | +39 041 2710236

Film screening Cenere

_{A leaflet for Cenere, published by the film producer, Casa di Produzione Ambrosio, Turin, 1916}

To mark a hundred years since the premiere of Cenere (Ash), the Theatre Study Centre is paying homage to this remarkable film and its star by organising a public showing of a previously unpublished coloured copy, courtesy of the Cineteca del Friuli. The film will be accompanied by live music performed by pianist Roberta Paroletti.

Inspired by the homonymous novel by Grazia Deledda and produced by Ambrosio Film, Cenere is the only film starring Eleonora Duse. Set in Sardinia but shot between Ala di Stura and Balme in Piedmont in August 1916, the film describes the intense, tormented mother-son relationship involving Rosalia Derios, played by Duse, and her illegitimate son, Anania (Febo Mari): the heartrending story of abandonment and reconciliation culminates in tragedy. Enthusiastic about her character and part, after seven years away from the stage, Eleonora Duse directed the film and also worked on the script together with Riccardo Artuffo.

The film will be introduced by a round table with the aim of exploring the themes associated with the film and its genesis.

Maria Ida Biggi and Maria Pia Pagani will intervene.

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Books at San Giorgio

Books at San Giorgio launch series dedicated to the latest Fondazione Giorgio Cini publications resumes.

Books at San Giorgio is a series of meetings that presents the latest Fondazione Giorgio Cini publications, usually the outcome of its Institutes’ research activities in various disciplines: art history, 20th-century music, Venetian history, the music of Vivaldi, drama and ethnomusicology.

The first date, on 3^rd March, Gino Benzoni, Maria Giordana Mariani Canova and Federica Toniolo will present La miniatura per le confraternite e le arti veneziane. Mariegole dal 1260 al 1460. Written by Lyle Humphrey, this fascinating book surveys two centuries of texts and illustrations in Mariegole, the illuminated statute books of the devotional guilds and the various “national” congregations in Venice during the Middle Ages.

The meeting on 10^th March, will be devoted to Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction. Edited by Gianmario Borio, this is the first book in a new series entitled “Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century”, of which he is also series editor for publishers Ashgate.

The book will be discussed by Simon Zagorski-Thomas and Francesco Giomi.

After the presentation there will be a concert, that is made possible thanks to the collaboration between the Conservatory of Music “Benedetto Marcello” and the Institute for Music of Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Federica Lotti (Flute and Piccolo) and Florindo Baldissera (guitar) will play pieces by Bruno Bettinelli , Giacomo Manzoni , Fausto Romitelli and Camillo Togni.

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Lastly, on 17^th March, Simona Marchini and Fortunato Ortombina will present Il Teatro di Pierluigi Samaritani, a catalogue of the stage designs and documents in the Samaritani Archive, now in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Theatre Study Centre.

The book also includes a thorough critical inquiry by Maria Ida Biggi into the art of the Piedmont stage designer.

Shakespeare in Venice Summer School. The Shylock Project 2016

The Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera presents the second edition of an intensive two-week course of study exploring the text and contexts of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

A rich program of lectures and creative workshops by leading scholars, actors, directors and musicians held in the beautiful Island of San Giorgio Maggiore will be complemented by excursions to the Jewish Ghetto and other Venetian sites.

This unique full-immersion experience will culminate in the attendance of the first production of The Merchant of Venice ever to be staged in the Jewish Ghetto, in the year of its quincentennial (1516-2016).

The course includes the participation of internationally renowned teachers such as:

Shaul Bassi, Maria Ida Biggi, Jerry Brotton, David Bryant, Tom Cartelli, Fernando Cioni, Tobias Döring, Paul Edmondson, Stephen J. Greenblatt, Howard Jacobson, David Scott Kastan, Sandra Pietrini, Carol Chillington Rutter, David Schalkwyk, James Shapiro, Boika Sokolova, Ramie Targoff, Stanley Wells

For information on how to participate:

shylockproject@cini.it

Deadline for applications: 20th March 2016

The Shylock Project

International Conference in Honour of Elena Povoledo Stage Illusions and Theatrical Practice

The conference sets out to commemorate Elena Povoledo, a major theatre scholar, whose library and entire archive has recently been donated by her grandchildren to the Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera.

Elena Povoledo was a pioneer in Italian studies on the relationship between the gurative and performing arts, especially from the 16th to the 18th centuries. She conducted long and varied research activities on themes in the history of theatre, stage design, theatre architecture and iconography. A lecturer at the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico di Roma, she was also chief editor of the Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo since its foundation in 1952 and an authoritative collaborator of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini for exhibitions on the subject of theatre held in the 1960s and 70s.

The conference will mainly focus on the themes she studied in the course of her career: Renaissance, Baroque and 18th-century theatre. One session will be devoted to stage design in the second half of the 20th century, a eld in which she had direct personal relations with many leading gures in Italian theatre.

The conference will be attended by Maria Ines Aliverti, Lorenzo Bianconi, Maria Ida Biggi, Silvia Carandini, Roberto Ciancarelli, Giovanna D’Amia, Iain Fenlon, Martina Frank, Siro Ferrone, Cristina Grazioli, Renzo Guardenti, Raimondo Guarino, Gerardo Guccini, Francesca Guidolin, Isabella Innamorati, Deanna Lenzi, Sara Mamone, Stefano Mazzoni, Teresa Megale, Franco Perrelli, Elisabetta Povoledo, Lorenzo Salveti, Silvana Sinisi, Gianluca Stefani, Anne Surgers, Elena Tamburini, Annamaria Testaverde and Marianna Zannoni.

Study Day Meeting of Italian Drama Schools

Th e Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre
and Opera has collaborated with the Accademia Teatrale Veneta to organise a study day for Italian drama schools on 25 September at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini under the patronage of the Veneto Region.

The aim is to create a network, modelled on the École des Écoles, in order to adopt a joint approach to some issues concerning drama teaching: the relation with the institutions and standardisation, the regulations at ministerial level for drama education and the professional placement of post-diploma students. e need to exchange ideas on these themes arises from a lack of standardisation in the sector and the requirement to ensure that the Ministry of Education provides acknowledgement and support reflecting the quality of the education on offer.

The schools invited to participate are required to meet a number of prerequisites, such as, the duration of the education programme, the number of teachers involved, the level of the diploma o ered or a high-pro le history. They will be called upon to give their own contribution in an attempt to identify which ministerial sector is suitable for shared activities and what minimal criteria are required to qualify for the title of “Accademia d’arte drammatica”. The following schools will take part in the study: the Scuola di Recitazione del Teatro Stabile, Genoa, the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi, the Accademia dei Filodrammatici and the Scuola del Piccolo Teatro, Milan, the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica del Teatro Bellini, Naples, la Scuola del Teatro Stabile, Turin, and the Civica Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Nico Pepe, Udine, the Scuola
di Teatro di Bologna “Alessandra Galante Garrone”, the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica
“Silvio D’Amico” and the Accademia Internazionale di Teatro di Roma.

Shakespeare in Venice Summer School The Shylock Project

Ahead of the next year’s 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and 500 years since the creation of the Venice Ghetto, the Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera organise a summer school of intensive studies dedicated to the text and context of the Merchant of Venice. The rich programme of lectures and workshops in a unique full immersion lasting four weeks will be taught by eminent professors, actors and musicians in the setting of the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio. The programme will also include performances of plays and excursions to the Jewish Ghetto and other significant sites in Venice. The internationally renowned experts teaching at the school will include Bill Alexander, Shaul Bassi, László Benke, Maria Ida Biggi, Jerry Brotton, Donatella Calabi, Dario Calimani, Thomas Cartelli, Kent Cartwright, Matthew Chiorini, Monica Chojnacka, Roberta Cimarosti, Fernando Cioni, Karin Coonrod, Eugenio De Giorgi, Valerio de Scarpis, Péter Dávidházi, Tobias Döring, Paul Edmondson, Keir Elam, Tibor Fabiny, Stephen Greenblatt, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Loretta Innocenti, Gézà Kallay, M. Lindsay Kaplan, David Scott Kastan, Simon Levis Sullam, Jacques Lezra, Piergabriele Mancuso, Stephen Orgel, Avraham Oz, Natália Pikli, Loredana Polezzi, Freddie Rokem, Carol Chillington Rutter, David Schalkwyk, Alessandro Serpieri, James Shapiro, Michael Shapiro, Stuart Sillars, B. J. Sokol, Bojka Sokolova, Werner Sollors, Ramie Targoff, Laura Tosi, Stanley Wells and Suzanne Wofford.

Exhibition. Vera Komissarževskaya meets Eleonora Duse

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian actress Vera Fyodorovna Komissarževskaya (27 October [8 November] 1864 – 10 [23] February 1910), the Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera, in collaboration with Tor Vergata University, Rome, has organised a conference with the aim of furthering knowledge about the celebrated Russian diva (4 – 5 March 2015)

For the occasion there will be an exhibition in the Library of the Nuova Manica Lunga at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini featuring the two great actresses with a rich selection of documentary material from the collections of the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, the Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow, and the Duse Archive in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.

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