Tempesta, La

Alternative title: Tempest, The
Synopsis: Televised version of the play by Giorgio Strehler directed for television by Carlo Battistoni.
Language: Italian (Standard)
Country: Italy
Medium: Television; Video
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 14 Dec 1981

Director

Carlo Battistoni; Giorgio Strehler

Writer

Augustino Lombardo

Music

Fiorenzo Carpi

Production Design

Luciano Damiani

Costume

Sibylle Ulsamer

Contributor

Marise Flach

Cast

General: Strehler’s first version of The Tempest was performed in the Boboli Gardens in Florence in 1948 with a translation by the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, and featured characters who emerged from the Garden’s fountains and reflecting pools. The second production, was initially staged in 1978 by the Piccolo Teatro della Citta di Milano at the Teatro Lirico, Milan, with a translation by longtime collaborator Agostino Lombardo, and performed in the United States in 1984. In this piece Strehler re-imagines the first twenty minutes of The Tempest through the eyes and mind of a spectator.

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