The Canto of Ulysses
€ 7.00Today, Primo Levi is considered a classic contemporary author, the eyewitness of Auschwitz par excellence, but also a storyteller, a man of science and a thinker of international standing. This opportunity to listen to him again today, thirty years after his death, in Toni Servillo’s extraordinary interpretation, is a tribute to a unique writer, read and loved worldwide. The readings, drawn from If This is a Man and The Periodic Table, highlight the crucial role and meaning culture played in one man’s life, portrayed in a natural and straightforward way. Indeed, it is in the most appalling and extreme situations that humanity comes together and human beings discover their humanity, thanks to their culture too. Only a great writer can describe – as Primo Levi does in The Canto of Ulysses – the redemptive experience of two young prisoners who struggle to survive in the hell of a concentration camp also with the help of Dante’s verses. Because culture makes us human.
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Toni Servillo is a multi-award winning actor and director who has brought works of classical and contemporary authors to the stage in Italy and in the world. They include: Rasoi (1991) by Enzo Moscato, Sabato, domenica e lunedì (2002) and Le voci di dentro (2013) by Eduardo De Filippo, Trilogia della villeggiatura (2007) by Carlo Goldoni and Elvira from the lectures of Louis Jouvet (2016). He has staged works by Mozart, Cimarosa, Mussorgsky, Strauss, Beethoven and Rossini in Europe’s most important opera houses. He has been playing leading roles in films since 1992 for Mario Martone (Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, Rehearsals for War, We Believed), Paolo Sorrentino (One Man Up, The Consequences of Love, Il divo, The Great Beauty), Andrea Molaioli (The Girl by the Lake, The Jewel), Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah), Stefano Incerti (Gorbaciof), Roberto Andò (Long Live Freedom, The Confessions) and Francesco Amato (Lasciati andare). With Gianfranco Capitta he has written Interpretazione e creatività (Laterza, 2008).
Toni Servillo & i Dialoghi
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