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Shakespeare in Venice Summer School. The Shylock Project

After the success in the summer of 2015, the Study Center Theatre and Opera, in collaboration with the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice and with the sponsorship of the Committee for the five hundredth anniversary of the Ghetto of Venice, organizes the second edition of the Shakespeare in Venice Summer School. The program will be divided over two weeks of intensive studies with a number of events open to the public, and will be attended by internationally renowned experts and teachers. The Summer School is part of the European project Shakespeare and beyond the Ghetto: staging Europe across cultures, involving several international partners, including Warwick University, Queen Mary University of London, Ludwig – Maximilians – Universität München, Tony Bulandra Theatre.

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

Jerry Brotton, David Bryant, Tom Cartelli, Fernando Cioni, Karin Coonrod, Tobias Döring, Paul Edmondson, Tibor Fabiny, Stephen Greenblatt, Diana Henderson, David Scott Kastan, Carol Chillington Rutter, David Schalkwyk, James Shapiro, Boika Sokolova, Stanley Wells

Directors: Maria Ida Biggi and Shaul Bassi

The Summer School will be held to coincide with a performance of The Merchant of Venice, by the Compagnia de ‘ Colombari , set in the Venetian Ghetto and promoted to celebrate the four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death and the five hundred years of the creation of the ghetto itself.

Below you can find the list of the events that are open to the public

Public Events

Tuesday 19th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 3.30 pm

Screening of Orson Welles’ The Merchant of Venice (1969)

Luca Giuliani, Presentation of the Restored Version

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Auditorium “Lo Squero”, h. 6.00 pm

Concert Where is Fancy Bred?

Rosemary Forbes Butler, Gianluca Geremia & Marco Rosa Salva

Friday 22^nd of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 5.30 pm

Diana Henderson, 2016 and Beyond: MIT’s Global Shakespeares Performance Archive

Monday 25^th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini

h. 4.00 pm– Paul Edmondson, Christianity and the Merchant

h. 5.30 pm – Stanley Wells, Shylocks

Tuesday 26th of July

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Sala Barbantini, h. 5.00 pm

Book Launch: Howard Jacobson, Shylock is My Name

For further information: [email protected]

Il Mercante di Venezia in Ghetto: www.themerchantinvenice.org

The Italian seasons of Niccolò Jommelli

This year a series of academic initiatives and music events to be held in various venues will mark the third centenary of the birth of Neapolitan composer Niccolò Jommelli. The initiatives have been promoted by the
Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera in collaboration with the Second University of Naples, the Pietà de’ Turchini Foundation (Naples), the Francesco Cilea Conservatoire (Reggio
Calabria), the Teatro San Carlo (Naples), the Italian Institute for the History of Music, the University of Vienna, and the Divino Sospiro Study Centre (Lisbon). In Venice from 31 October – 1 November, there will be
a one-day conference entitled The Italian seasons of Niccolò Jommelli. The conference will analyse the composer’s sacred and profane Italian repertoires, his relations with all the stagecraft professions and with the cultural life of the Serenissima during the course of his career.

Books at San Giorgio

The book launch series dedicated to the latest Fondazione Giorgio Cini publications resumes in September.

The first presentation on 15 September will feature the recent volumes of Studi Veneziani, the prestigious journal edited by Institute for the History of the Venetian State and Society. As usual, the journal includes articles on Venetian and Veneto culture, history, politics and art, including a long essay by François-Xavier Leduc on the Venetian aristocracy’s management of their property from the 14th century on.

On 7 October the latest issue of Arte Veneta will be unveiled. For the sixtieth anniversary of the creation of the Institute Art History, the journal, which was founded in 1947 under the presidency of Giuseppe Fiocco with Rodolfo Pallucchini as academic director, will have a revamped editorial and graphic look with more lavish colour illustrations to accompany the fascinating academic articles. The themes dealt with range from the Trecento to the Settecento, and include some important new findings. A very useful new feature, as of this issue, is the free downloadable e-book of the “Bibliography of Veneto Art”.

Lastly, on 29 October the highlighted book will be Luigi Squarzina. Studioso, drammaturgo e regista teatrale, the proceedings from an international conference held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini from 4-6 October 2012 in collaboration with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Four years after Luigi Squarzina’s death, the writings collected in this book provide the opportunity to commemorate his life and art by exploring his various multifaceted aspects.

Staged reading Tre quarti di luna by Luigi Squarzina

In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and the Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice and Accademia Teatrale Veneta, the Centre for Studies on Theatre has promoted a staged reading of an early
play by Luigi Squarzina, Tre quarti di luna (“Three-quarters Moon”) written in 1949. Before he died the playwright presented his library to the Fondazione Cini, which wishes to commemorate
him with initiatives like this staged reading.
First performed by Vittorio Gassman, Anna Proclemer and Luca Ronconi, the play was staged at the Teatro Valle, Rome in 1953. Today it is reinterpreted by second-year students on an acting
course at the Accademia Teatrale Veneta, directed by the actress Paola Bigatto.
The action takes place in the Fascist period and develops around the theme of the masterpupil, professor-student relationship, to the background of the Gentile educational reform.
The school environment is extended to become a mirror of life and history: “the school has the healthy ferocity of life… anyone who really educates is killed or kills”.

World Theatre Day – Theatre in prison

On 27 March, to mark World Theatre Day 2014, the Centre for Theatre Studies has organised a meeting, coordinated by Maria Ida Biggi and Paolo Puppa, on “Theatre in prison”.

Held in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and the Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, the event will be a chance to focus on the role of theatre in the difficult, problematic prison setting and to exchange views on the relationship between “inside” and “outside”.

After theoretical reflections by Gerardo Guccini, Fernando Marchiori, Andrea Porcheddu, Paolo Puppa and Cristina Valenti, there will be a presentation by Vito Minoia, Valeria Ottolenghi and Daniele Seragnoli of “Suspended Footsteps”, a project by Balamòs Teatro, a theatre company active in Venice prisons since 2006.

Musical puppet theatre for adults L’après midi d’un Poète. The Chrysalises’ Friend

The show will be replicate during the Carnival Perdiod on 27 and 28 february and on 3 and 4 March 2014.

Info and reservation:
Segreteria
tel.+39 041 2710234
fax +39 041 2710215
e-mail [email protected]

The Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera presents the latest play from the Gran Teatrino La Fede delle Femmine, included in the series L’après midi d’un Poète,
this year devoted to the Guido Gozzano. Based on a twofold approach, fi lm and drama, Th e Chrysalises’ Friend is an introduction in ten scenes to Gozzano’s world and especially his brief love aff airs.
After exploring the sadomasochistic relationship with the poetess Amalia Guglielminetti, the play focuses on the poet’s entomological passion for butterfl ies and small insects in the Villa Il Meleto, a refuge of rest and quiet during his inexorable, slow fatal illness, and the illusion of salvation on his long Indian journey.

The puppets are moved by Margherita Beato, Margot Galante Garrone, Luisa Garlato and
Paola Pilla to the accompaniment of music by Muzio Clementi, Giuseppe Giordani (Il Giordanello),
Georg Friedrich Handel, György Sándor Ligeti, Jean-Claude Risset, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Gabriel Pierné and Nicola Vaccaj, and songs by Margot Galante Garrone.

Mariano Fortuny’s Theatre

Th is conference is part of the “Fortuny Atlas”, a project promoted by the University of Padua with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Study Centre for Documentary Research into European Th eatre and Opera, Ca’
Foscari University, Venice, the Fortuny Museum – Fondazione Musei Civici, Venice. The conference will discuss the place of theatre in the career of the multifaceted artist Mariano Fortuny. The sub-themes
include his relations with the leading masters of stage design in the early 20th century, such as Adolphe Appia or Max Reinhardt, his contacts with the world of dance ranging from Isadora Duncan to Ruth Saint Denis and Loie Fuller and his creations and experiments with stagecraft and lighting.

The speakers include Cristina Grazioli, Elena Randi, Carlo Alberto Minici Zotti, Paola Degli
Esposti, Guido Bartorelli, Giuseppina Dal Canton and Marzia Maino from the University of
Padua; Daniela Ferretti, Claudio Franzini and Cristina da Roit from the Fortuny Museum;
Francesco Cotticelli, University of Naples; Jean Louis Besson, Université Paris 8 – Nanterre;
Beatrice Picon-Vallin, CNRS, Paris; Marco Consolini, Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle;
Giovanni Isgrò University of Palermo; Marielle Silhouette, Universitè Paris 10; and Adriana
Guarnieri and Maria Ida Biggi Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and director of the Centre for
Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera.

Luigi Squarzina Schoolar, Playwright and Stage Director

Proceedings from the International Conference

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2013

In collaboration with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, the Theatre Study Centre has published the proceedings from the conference entitled “Luigi Squarzina. Schoolar, playwright and stage director”, held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini from 4 to 6 October 2012. Published two years after his Death, this book is an opportunity to commemorate, analyse and reflect on Luigi Squarzina’s role in theatre and his writings.

The book brings together papers by Gerardo Guccini, Alessandro Tinterri, Mango, Elena Randi, Claudio Vicentini, Gregori, Maria Ida Biggi, Ginette Herry, Giacomo Pedini, Claudio Longhi, Anna Barsotti, Palazzo, Federica Mazzocchi, Isabella Innamorati, Katia Angioletti, Ilaria Gariboldi, Maurizio Giammusso, Franco Vazzoler, Paolo Bosisio, Roberto Alonge, Pier Mario Vescovo, Franco Perrelli, Paolo Puppa, Eugenio Buonaccorsi, Camilla Guaita, Roberto Cuppone, Leonardo Mello, Francesca Bisutti, Marianna Zannoni, Stefano Locatelli, Matteo Paoletti, Maricla Boggio, Masolino d’Amico, Giovani Agostinucci and Matteo d’Amico.

Accompanying the book is a DVD with a film of Paolo Puppa’s interview with Luca Ronconi, who recounts his experiences with Squarzina, plus video recordings of the afternoon sessions in the Palladian Refectory with Omero Antonutti, Maricla Boggio, Matteo d’Amico, Ivo Garrani, Paola Gassman, Franco Graziosi, Gabriele Lavia, Paola Mannoni, Ugo Pagliai, Carlo Quartucci, Giuliano Scabia, Tullio Solenghi, Lamberto Trezzini and Giancarlo Zanetti.

A Project for Training Drama Teachers Stage Pedagogy

The Centre for Study and Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera is hosting a training course for teachers and educators in the field of theatre. Taught by the great Russian master Anatolij Vasiliev, the course will be attended by trainee pedagogues from all over the world. Stage pedagogy is an opportunity for meeting and studying with drama teachers and educators: a time and a place available to explore the most important and undervalued of the arts – art education. The hopes of finding new talent and renewing languages depend on this “mother of all arts” as far as the transmission of knowledge and experience is concerned. By means of the etjud method, Anatolij Vasiliev builds up a powerful experience of personal and artistic relations.
The project has been organised by the Accademia Teatrale Veneta and the Fondazione di Venezia
with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the collaboration of the Teatro Scuola Paolo Grassi, Milan.

VERDI ON STAGE. Verdi’s operas and director’s theatre

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