New York Premiere of
Fedeli d’Amore (Love’s faithful)
a polyptych in seven panels for Dante Alighieri
by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
music Luigi Ceccarelli
with Ermanna Montanari (voice), Simone Marzocchi (trumpet)
In association with Teatro delle Albe/Ravenna Teatro, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival, Ravenna Festival
With the support of Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Ministero della Cultura, Italian Cultural Institute in New York, Regione Emilia-Romagna/Cultura d’Europa, Fondazione ATER.
In collaboration with The Consulate General of Italy in New York, Com.It.Es, Italian and American Playwrights Project, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò NYU.
Thursday, Jan. 26, Friday, Jan. 27, Saturday, Jan. 28
8 p.m.
La MaMa, 66 East 4th Street, NYC
Tickets available HERE
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Fedeli d’Amore (Love’s faithful) is the new stage poem by Marco Martinelli focused on the exceptional vocal research 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 Italian and American Playwright Project and published by PAJ Publications. Different 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. In a scene generated by a vocal, sonorous, visual and dramaturgical alchemy able to bind together the psyche and the world, Dante is invoked while embracing a single salvation: 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 original itinerary of vocal research, Ermanna Montanari has received acknowledgements in Italy and all over the world. She’s 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 the Special Projects).
Marco Martinelli’s texts have been published and staged in ten languages, and he has been awarded with 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.
