About the show

fedeli d’Amore Polittico in sette quadri per Dante Alighieri is a stage poem by Marco Martinelli and Ermana Montanari, founders of the Italian company Teatro delle Albe. Revolving around Dante and our own current times, different voices speak to us in these seven panels, through the sole and unique voice of Montanari on stage, whose outstanding vocal register and original research characterize her performances. Accompanied by the sound of a trumpet, Montanari "plays" 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. These voices speak to us of the refugee, of the poet fled from his own city and condemned to burn at the stake, and now lying on his deathbed, exiled in Ravenna.

About the Company

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 such as seven Ubu Prizes, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, Lo straniero Prize “dedicated to the memory of Carmelo Bene”, Eleonora Duse Prize. Several books are dedicated to her - Do, undo, do over. Ermanna Montanari in Teatro delle Albe by Laura Mariani (Titivillus). She is the founder and director of MALAGOLA, international centre for voice studies, - with the vice-direction of Pitozzi, where the School of vocality is the heart. Marco Martinelli has been awarded several prizes and recognitions including seven Ubu Prizes, Golden Laurel-Mess Festival, the Prize for Career Achievement - Journées Théâtrales de Carthage, best theatre book in France in 2021 for his Aristophane dans les banlieues (Actes Sud). His texts have been published and staged in ten languages and were selected by Fabulamundi and Italian and American Playwrights Project. Martinelli has written and directed several films, scripts co-signed with Montanari -Vita agli arresti di Aung San Suu Kyi (2017),The Sky over Kibera (2019) Er (2020),Ulisse XXVI (2021). He is working on a new film based on fedeli d’Amore, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Abu Dhabi.