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Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari and the staging of “Fedeli d’Amore” at the San Martín | Founders of the Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna, Italy

Year 1321, in Ravenna. Dante Alighieri lies on his deathbed. Sick with malaria, delirious. The last night of a poet is always a suggestive idea, but that is not what is seen. Instead, the disembodied and indefinable voices of delirium and its possible materializations are heard. That’s what it’s all about fedeli d’amorea polyptych in … Read more

The Letters to Pasolini interpreted by Montanari open the Correspondence Festival in Monte del Lago

by Michael Miller

In the year of the centenary of his birth, the letters to Pasolini, staged by Francesco Montanari (and Dog on the moon), could not fail to open the eleventh edition of the Correspondence Festival. On 6 September, at 9.15 pm, in Piazzetta Sant’Andrea, in Monte del Lago di Magione, Montanari, … Read more

Dante’s Paradise arrives, with Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari

by Virgil Kish

Hell is real, the atrocious industriousness of which will continue even after the Day of Judgment. The mountain of Purgatory is also tangible, but it will vanish at the end of time, when even the last soul will have soared towards the sky. And Heaven? A heavenly script, an admirable show set up for the … Read more