​fedeli d'Amore: Teatro delle Albe
Prince Theater, Annenberg Center

January 20 and 21   8 pm
https://pennlivearts.org/event/teatro-delle-albe-1055

Special event:
Thursday Jan 19, 2023 - 5,15 p.m.
Feintuch Family Lobby, Annenberg Center Discussion:   
with Marco Martinelli & Ermanna Montanari, moderated by Mauro Calcagno and Eva Del Soldato 
The founders of the Teatro delle Albe discuss with Penn faculty members and students their engagement with Dante, their experiences in Ravenna and Kibera, and the meaning of fedeli d’Amore.

fedeli d’Amore (Love’s faithful) is the new stage poem by Marco Martinelli focused on the exceptional vocal explorations of Ermanna Montanari (awarded “2018 best Italian actress” for this performance). The text, revolving around Dante and our own present times, has been selected by the Italian and American Playwright Project and published by PAJ Publications.

Various voices speak to us in these seven panels: the fog of a dawn in 1321, the demon of the pit where the merchants of death are punished, a donkey that carried the poet on his last journey, the “scolding” imp who incites brawls about money, Italy kicking herself, Alighieri’s daughter Antonia; and “an end that is not an end”.

​These voices, who are one single voice that can contain numberless voices - that of Montanari - speak to us of the refugee, of the poet fled from his own city and now laying on his deathbed, exiled in Ravenna, voices that are suspended between the fourteenth century and our own day.

​This scene, generated by a vocal, sonorous, visual and dramaturgical alchemy that seems to bind together the psyche and the world, invokes Dante while embracing a single vision: Love is what makes us rebel; it is the force that liberates and elevates.
 
Ermanna Montanari - actress, author and set designer - and Marco Martinelli - playwright and director - founded the Teatro delle Albe (1983) and share its artistic direction.
For her highly original explorations of the human voice, Ermanna Montanari has received acknowledgements in Italy and all over the world. She is the founder and director - together with Enrico Pitozzi - of MALAGOLA, International Center for the Vocal and Sound Research, based in Ravenna (awarded with Premio Ubu 2022 for Special Projects).
 
Marco Martinelli’s texts have been published and staged in ten languages, and he has been awarded several prizes in Italy and all over the world. He is founder of the Teatro delle Albe’s “non-school,” a theatre-educational practice with adolescents, which has become a focal point for many scholars and which Martinelli has taken all over Italy and the world.

​Luigi Ceccarelli has been dedicated since the 1970s to the composition of electro-acoustic music with special attention to sound space; among his many prizes and awards are IMEB- Bourges, Ars Elettronica-Linz, the “Opus” prize from the “Conseil de la Musique du Quebec” and in theatre Ubu Prize, Bitef Festival and Mess festival prizes.
Marco Olivieri, sound designer, collaborates with musicians and artists live and in the studio. He also works in the theatre field, realizing projects and researches on sound spatialization and the sonorization of unconventional spaces. Among the collaborations: Massive Attack, Scott Gibbons, Bob Wilson, Stefano Scodanibbio.
Simone Marzocchi musician, composer, teacher, first trumpet of the Orchestra Arcangelo Corelli of Ravenna, has collaborated for over 10 years with Teatro delle Albe and he is active as a soloist with the projects “Solo” and “Sibode dj”.

In collaboration with
   Consolato Generale d’Italia a Filadelfia
   University of Pennsylvania-Center for Italian Studies