NoveTeatro
Calēre (sentieri)

Transitus animae

Teatro Alighieri | Available to 31 December 2022

Tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini

NoveTeatro
Calēre (paths)
Transitus animae

screenplay and direction Eugenio Sideri
assistant director Gabriele Tesauri
on the stage Enrico Caravita, Carlo Giannelli Garavini, Maurizio Lupinelli, Chiara Sarcona, Patrizia Bollini, Marco Montanari, Giada Marisi

Ensemble Voces Cordis conducted by Elisabetta Agostini
Claudio Rigotti, Anna Rigotti, Laura Rigotti, Decio Biavati

lighting designer Filippo Trambusti
set and costume designer Francesca Tagliavini
make-up artist Arianna Farolfi
assistant directors Marco Santachiara, Tania Eviani
photo Marco Parollo

production secretary and communication Nicole Benevelli, Valentina Donatti
management and curatorship Carlotta Ghizzoni

coproduction Ravenna Festival and NoveTeatro
in collaboration with Lady Godiva Teatro
premiere

Inside a house. A family home in Romagna. Characters move within a familiar plot where the father-son dialogue suffers from the disconnection typical of the generation gap: no regrets; broken dreams, perhaps; no illusions; rather, too many disillusions concerning the future. Then Sideri, a director who has always been sensitive to socio-historical issues, zooms out and pans to the port, the factories, the fields, the industries. Nights that end with one too many drinks just when someone else gets up to go to work: the lights of the Riviera outshine the stars, dark omens of the bewilderment of the new generations, who do not always find a calēra, a path that they can follow. Indeed, paths are sometimes hidden, lost in a world where «evolution does not always mean progress».

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Quanto in femmina foco d’amor

Mistero per voci e pellegrine

Basilica di San Francesco | 14 October 2021 | at 7:30 PM

Autumn Trilogy: the Dance, the Music, the Word
Quanto in femmina foco d’amor
Mistero per voci e pellegrine

by Francesca Masi
an idea of Cristina Mazzavillani Muti

music Mottetti tratti dal Codice di Las Huelgas (XIII-XIV sec.)

mise en espace a cura di Luca Micheletti

Sofia Barilli, Gabriella Casali, Martina Cicognani, Francesca De Lorenzi, Veronica Franzosi, Valentina Mandruzzato, Giorgia Massaro, Chiara Nicastro, Maria Luisa Zaltron

and with Vittoria Giacobazzi, Antonella Gnagnarelli, Vittoria Magnanello

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Towards Paradiso

Giardini Pubblici | Available from 27th June to 27th July

Towards Paradiso
concept, artistic direction, and direction Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
with the actresses and the actors of Ravenna

music Luigi Ceccarelli

with Vincenzo Core electric guitar
Giacomo Piermatti double bass
Gianni Trovalusci flutes
Andrea Veneri live electronics
and with Mirella Mastronardi vocals

sound design Marco Olivieri
lighting design Fabio Sajiz
technical direction Enrico Isola

production Ravenna Festival/Teatro Alighieri
in collaboration with Teatro delle Albe with the extraordinary contribution Comune di Ravenna and Viva Dante 700

Prima parte
inizio ore 20.30 fine ore 23.00 (Canti 1 – 11)

intervallo 30’

Seconda parte
inizio ore 23.30 fine ore 2.00 (Canti 12 – 22)

intervallo 30’

Terza parte
inizio ore 2.30 fine ore 05.00 (Canti 23 – 33)

Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari have come up with an act of hope for 2021, the year of the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death: their verso Paradiso is a one-night happening, from dusk to dawn, featuring the integral reading of the thirty-three Cantos of Paradiso by all the actors of their own company, Le Albe, and the actresses and the actors who work in Ravenna. verso Paradisopoints to their Cantiere Dante, to return in 2022 with a full staging of the Comedy,from the ‘dark wood’ to the dazzling light of Paradise, once again with all the citizens of the Public Call. Marco Martinelli will guide us through this project in a sort of diary, published online at doppiozero.com from April 25 to the end of June, with contributions by various scholars and artists.
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Lights from the Divina Commedia before and after Dante

Luci dalla Divina Commedia prima e dopo Dante

Teatro Alighieri | 27 July 2021 | at 9:30 PM

Lumina in tenebris

Lights from the Divina Commedia before and after Dante

by and with Elena Bucci and Chiara Muti
based on the Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri

lighting design Vincent Longuemare
sound design and dramaturgy Raffaele Bassetti

production Ravenna Festival in collaboration
with Compagnia Le belle bandiere

In the dark backstage, in the wings, behind the backdrops, cracks, openings and gaps are disclosed and hidden… A light flashes, disappears, is transformed: apparitions are evoked by the voices of two white figures mirroring each other. Guardians, ghosts, souls. Two actresses who have already and repeatedly crossed paths. Now, again, they meet in the grandiose theatre of Dante’s Comedy, a map of lights designed to guide us through the darkness caused by discord and ignorance, arrogance and greed. Big lights, small lights: useful tools to push our way through the “forest dark”.
Lights that inspired Dante, and were inspired by him: they invite us to listen to the spirit of hope that dwells in each of us, a spirit that creates but does not destroy, welcomes but never rejects.

Il defunto odiava i pettegolezzi

Teatro Alighieri | 14 July 2021 | at 9:30 PM

Compagnia teatrale Menoventi
Il defunto odiava i pettegolezzi

mise en scene of the book of the same name by Serena Vitale (Adelphi Edizioni, 2015)

concept Consuelo Battiston and Gianni Farina
direction, sound and lighting design Gianni Farina
costumes Elisa Alberghi and Consuelo Battiston

with Consuelo Battiston, Tamara Balducci, Leonardo Bianconi, Federica Garavaglia, Mauro Milone

organisation and communication Maria Donnoli
artwork Marco Smacchia

coproduction E Production / Menoventi, Ravenna Festival, Operaestate Festival Veneto

To this day, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s death probably remains the most exciting cold case in Russian literature. On April 14, 1930, the leading poet of the Russian Revolution shot himself through the heart, for reasons that were never clarified. Political pressure? Intellectual isolation? A broken heart? Serena Vitale, one of the most important Italian Slavists, has written a successful book on this mystery, The Deceased Hated Gossip, whose title quotes a famous line from the poet’s suicide note. Vitale’s complex investigation has inspired Menoventi, who now adapt for the stage the poet’s mysterious end. They will propose a very peculiar work, based on the interplay of noir and crime story, where hypotheses, perspectives and testimonies reflect one another in a fantastic game of mirrors.

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Confini

Teatro Alighieri | 11 July 2021 | at 6:00 PM

ErosAntEros Theatre Company
Confini

concept and curatorship Davide Sacco and Agata Tomšič / ErosAntEros

script Ian De Toffoli
dramaturgy Agata Tomšič
direction and music and video design Davide Sacco
with Hervé Goffings, Sanders Lorena, Marco Lorenzini, Djibril Mbaye, Agata Tomšič, Emanuela Villagrossi
costume design Laura Dondoli
technical team, set production, and costume-making Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse

production Fondazione Luzzati – Teatro della Tosse, TNL – Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Ravenna Festival, ErosAntEros – POLIS Teatro Festival
in collaboration with Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Campania Teatro Festival
in residence at Teatro della Toscana, TNL – Théâtre National du Luxembourg, OTSE – Officine Theatrikès Salento Ellàda, Tempo Reale
with the support of Comune di Ravenna, Regione Emilia-Romagna
with the patronage of Pietro Valenti, Ruth Heynen, Silvia Pasello, Silvia Lodi,Remo Ceccarelli, Maria Luisa Caldognetto, Eugenio Giorgetta, all’Istituto Universitario Europeo, alCentro di Micro-BioRobotica dell’Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, a“Passaparola”e a tutte le persone intervistate, per aver nutrito il percorso di creazione dello spettacolo; a Giuseppe Bellosiper la consulenza sul romagnolo

The profoundly “political” nature of the research carried out by ErosAntEros does not run short in this new project, centred on the eminently political and pressing theme of borders and their complex meaning.
Confiniis the result of a project started in 2018 by a team of international artists (like the young Luxembourg-based playwright Ian De Toffoli and actor Marco Lorenzini). Starting from the migration of Italian miners to the coal basins of northern Europe in the 1950s, the work focuses on the thorny issues of our ramshackle European Union, with intriguing forays into “future history”.
All centres on a few fundamental questions: what is a border? What is it that really separates men? And why, 70 years after the first European economic agreements, do we still not have a common political vision?

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