Two New Events at the Teatro Verde

As part of the 54th edition of the International Theatre Festival of La Biennale di Venezia, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini is hosting two performances at the Teatro Verde, built beginning in 1952 and inaugurated in July 1954, based on a design by architect Luigi Vietti. For its time, the theatre represented a major technological challenge: it was constructed on reclaimed land created through the expansion of the Island and extends partially below sea level.

The Teatro Verde boasts a long and distinguished history of live performances and, this June, will once again come alive hosting Cries, the concert-performance by Christos Stergioglou and Alexandros Drakos Ktistakis, presented as part of Biennale Teatro 2026 directed by Willem Dafoe. Cries gives voice to human suffering and to all those who, throughout the centuries, have experienced slavery, displacement, and migration. The performance draws inspiration from ancient and modern poetry and theatre — from the refugee reflections of poet Giorgos Seferis and Hecuba’s lament in The Trojan Women by Euripides to Bertolt Brecht, Manolis Anagnostakis, Nikos Vrettakos, and Warsan Shire, among others.