Divine Comedy on stage and Colangeli’s Fantastic Enterprise – Entertainment

(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 09 – “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself in a dark forest, because the straight path was lost”. Thus began the most famous journey of Italian literature. Three canticles, each consisting of 33 songs, for a variable between 115 and 160 triplets. Which in this year of celebrations for 700 / o from the death of Dante Alighieri, have come back to the fore, studied, narrated, illustrated, acted. Now also declaim in a show that has enterprise. Indeed, of “The fantastic enterprise of the actor Colangeli”, as Giorgio Colangeli, with the complicity of Marco Maltauro, entitled his seven meetings on stage with the Divine Comedy, at the Teatro Argentina from 10 to 13 May, the new stage of the Dante from memory project – Because of their memory both, that the Theater of Rome dedicates to the celebration of the Father of poetry and the Italian language. Between the lectio introduced by Paolo Di Paolo and the cycle of workshops curated by Piero Gabrielli, now we move on to the so-called poetry, with Colangeli who brings that immense work to the stage, from memory. “For me, the Divine Comedy by heart is actually a project that was born many years ago – the actor tells ANSA on the eve of his debut -. I started with a few songs in 2006, as an exercise in memory and diction over time. free. But the more I went on, the more I got hold of this poem that contains all aspects of life. I rediscovered an immense beauty that, let’s face it, is not always understood at school. ” ‘current events, with the actor, accompanied by the music of Diego Dall’Osto, who plays the role of the heroes of 2021: firefighter for Hell, civil protection volunteer for Purgatory and nurse for Heaven (“casually” ensures, precisely on the International Day of May 12). (HANDLE).