Exhibition. Vera Komissarževskaya meets Eleonora Duse

plus Mar, 04May, 15 2015

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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