Friday, July 19 at 9.30 p.m. in Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, will be held the reading show Voices of Dante in the Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, with the actor Toni Servillo and in the dramaturgy of Giuseppe Montesano. The event, organized by the Opera della Primaziale Pisana, is part of the celebrations for the 850 years since the laying of the first stone of the Bell Tower of the Cathedral of Pisa, which for the occasion will be illuminated. The show is free admission and the same evening, from 8.30 p.m to midnight, you can visit the monuments and museums of the square for free, with reservation required on the site www.impegnoefuturo.it.
Toni Servillo (Afragola, 1959) has staged editions considered reference texts of Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni, Eduardo De Filippo. At Piccolo, he directed Trilogia della villeggiatura (2007) by Goldoni, which has been an extraordinary critical and public success, also during an international tour, witnessed by the documentary film by Max Pacifico 394-Trilogia nel mondo, - Le voci di dentro (2013) by Eduardo - broadcast live on Rai 1, with the TV direction of Paolo Sorrentino, on 2 November 2014, from the Teatro San Ferdinando in Naples, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the death of the Neapolitan author - and Elvira (2016), from the text by Brigitte Jaques on the lessons of Louis Jouvet, also accompanied by a documentary film of Pacifico, The Theatre at Work, which tells all the stages of creation, from the first rehearsals, up to the replicas at the Théâtre de l'Athénée Louis Jouvet in Paris. In the musical theater he staged numerous operas. At the cinema, he was directed, among others, by Mario Martone, Paolo Sorrentino, Matteo Garrone, Marco Bellocchio, Roberto Andò, Gabriele Salvatores, Stefano Sollima, winning four David di Donatello and two European Film Awards: in 2008 for Gomorrah and Il Divo - both also awarded at the Cannes Film Festival -, in 2013 for La grande bellezza - best foreign film at the Golden Globes, BAFTA and Oscars in 2014.
Novelist, literary critic and translator, Giuseppe Montesano was born in Naples in 1959. He is the author of the novels: Nel corpo di Napoli (Mondadori 1999, Premio Napoli and Premio Vittorini), A capofitto (Mondadori 2000), Di questa vita menzognera (Feltrinelli 2003, Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci, Premio Selezione Campiello) and Magic People (Feltrinelli 2005). He wrote the essays: The rebel in pink gloves. Charles Baudelaire (Mondadori 2007, Premio Vittorini), Lettori selvaggi (Giunti 2016, Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci and Premio Napoli), Come diventare vivi (Bompiani 2017, new edition 2022), Baudelaire is alive. The Flowers of Evil translated and told (Giunti 2021), Three ways not to die (Giunti 2023). He edited and translated with Giovanni Raboni the Operas of Baudelaire (Meridiani Mondadori, Premio Prezzolini-Lugano), operas by Flaubert, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Gautier, La Fontaine, and, for the theatre of Toni Servillo, Lélio or the return to the life of Berlioz and Elvira by Brigitte Jaques. He writes for the newspaper "Il Mattino". He has been collaborating for over a decade with Toni Servillo as author and translator.
INFORMATION
The show is free, with limited seats subject to availability.
For the occasion, starting from 8.30 p.m. and until midnight, you can visit free of charge, with reservation on the website www.impegnoefuturo.it, the monuments (Camposanto and Battistero) and the museums (Museo delle Sinopie and Museo dell'Opera del Duomo).
The Cathedral instead will be free admission contingent, without reservation.
The Tower and the temporary exhibition "La Torre allo Specchio", will be closed from 5 p.m..
We would also like to remind you that from 7.00 p.m. until 11.20 p.m., access to the Cathedral Square from the Via Cardinal Maffi side will be closed, both incoming and outgoing.
To know the complete program of the celebrations for the 850 years of the Tower: https://www.turismo.pisa.it/en/eventi/Tower-A-year-of-celebrations-for-its-850th-anniversary
