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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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The actress at work. Scripts annotated by Eleonora Duse

This exhibitions presents a fascinating series of documents illustrating how Eleonora Duse worked on the plays she staged or unrealised projects. Preserved in the Eleonora Duse Archive, the scripts, printed texts and prompters’ copies reveal how the actress wrote notes, made cuts and variations, and added annotations of various kinds. The exhibition provides great insights into her own personal way of reading, interpreting and exploring. The twenty texts on show are effectively complemented by related photographs, reviews, posters and letters.

The scripts are by seven playwrights: D’Annunzio and Ibsen (the most frequently staged), Shakespeare (translated by Arrigo Boito), Gallarati Scotti, Maeterlinck, Praga, and Scribe with Legouve.

Guided tours upon reservation.

International conference Imperial styles. The design and diffusion of “uniformed models” in the French and Austrian Empires (1804-1848)

Promoted by the Cini Study Centre of Documentary Research into European Theatre and Opera and Institute of Art History, the Archivio del Moderno di Mendrisio, the Scuola dottorale interateneo in Storia delle Arti di Venezia, the Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici ed Etnoantropologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste, and the Istituto Storico Austriaco, Rome, the conference sets out to explore the spread of new uniform stylistic models in early 19th-century Europe. From Paris to Vienna, urban design, architecture, the arts and taste were influenced by new uniform paradigms, which emerged particularly strongly in public buildings, schools, hospitals, libraries, theatres and city gates. For all of this the study of the ancient world was the starting point.

Participants at the conference include Partecipano Maria Ida Biggi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia; Andrej Betlej, Jagiellonian University, Krakow; Luca Caburlotto, Sovrintendente per i beni storici, artistici ed etnoantropologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia; Martina Carraro, Università IUAV di Venezia; Giovanna D’Amia, Politecnico di Milano; Elena Doria, Università IUAV di Venezia; Renzo Dubbini, Università IUAV di Venezia; Rossella Fabiani, Sovrintendenza per i beni storici, artistici ed etnoantropologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia; Jean-Philippe Garric, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Andreas Gottsmann, Direttore Isituto Storico Austriaco di Roma; Alexander auf der Heide, Università degli Studi di Palermo; Richard Kurdiovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Ewa Manikowaka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw; Carlo Mambriani, Università degli studi di Parma; Luigi Mascilli Migliorini, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale; Marco Pogacnik, Università IUAV di Venezia; Francesco Repishti, Politecnico di Milano; Letizia Tedeschi, Archivio del Moderno, Mendrisio; Irena Žmuc, City Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana; Giudo Zucconi, Università IUAV di Venezia.

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

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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

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For further information: shylockproject@cini.it

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.