The SuggEstiva review returns, bringing together cultural, theatrical and convivial events at the Odeo Cornaro, a monumental complex, which houses within it the Loggia, a fixed ancient-style theater scene, which was built by Alvise Cornaro, in particular to host the shows by Ruzante, a playwright and actor very dear to him. An important place for the city, which celebrates its 500th anniversary this year. The Loggia, dated 1524, was built to a design by the Veronese architect Giovanni Maria Falconetto, linked to Cornaro by friendship and a common interest in classical antiquity.
The soul of the programme, which will keep Paduans and visitors company for two months, is the La Torlonga Association, committed since 2000 to recovering and valorising places and memories of the historical-artistic heritage of Padua, offering guided tours, meetings and exhibitions. For this summer festival La Torlonga has chosen to expand the number and type of events, working in synergy with Simone Toffanin, artistic director for the theatrical part.
The anniversary of the 500th anniversary of the Odeo Cornaro (1524-2024) will act as a common thread throughout the two months of SuggEstiva 2024 programming, designed to underline the value and importance of this symbolic place, without forgetting the spirit of its founder Alvise Cornaro and the deep friendship that bound him to Ruzante. Cornaro would have given value to architecture, to history, but he would also have valorized new theatrical formulas and new ways to tell the classic.
The program is characterized by guided tours, which become convivial moments in which acted parts and aperitifs alternate, conceived and followed by the Torlonga Association, such as the tested “Avanti di disnar a corte” and “A casa di Alvise” with a renewed edition , which pays homage to the 700th anniversary of Marco Polo’s death. This edition of SuggeEstiva adds the novelty “Walking around Padua with the young Palladio”, a guided walking itinerary aimed at rediscovering the places and reliving the events that characterized the architect’s childhood and adolescence in his Padua period.
The visits will alternate with 5 theater shows. On July 11th CAST brings to the stage “El roerso mondo de Ruzante”, between narration and prose, a show punctuated by popular and Renaissance music, which alternates with the writings of Beolco. On August 1st Prototeatro proposes “Tutti dormono sulla hill” dedicated to the Spoon River anthology.
Particularly anticipated is the show on August 8th “Carlo, Goldoni & Giorgio” with the duo of comic actors Carlo & Giorgio rediscovering the most important works and characters of the Venetian playwright. The Pantarei Group brings to the Odeo on August 27th
“Furiously Orlando”. The closing, on August 29th, will be entrusted to the original rereading of Don Chisciotte by Barbamoccolo and Artivarti in “Rockischiotte- Viver folli per morir essays”.
The event enjoys the contribution of the Municipality – Department of Culture of Padua.
Entrance to the evenings is subject to payment upon reservation at [email protected].
In case of rain the dates of the events will be changed, updates on https://www.latorlonga.it/
The program
AT ALVISE’S HOUSE
(July 3rd at 9pm; repeat July 18th, August 5th and 28th at 9pm)
The mythical world of classical divinities and heroes, which so fascinated the imagination of Alvise Cornaro, hydraulics scholar and agricultural entrepreneur, architectural theorist and patron, and his cultured friends, will be the theme of the guided tour in environments not usually accessible to the public with theatrical interludes, taken from comedies by Ruzante and writings by Cornaro, recited by the actor Simone Toffanin. The visit is organized by the Torlonga Association.
AHEAD OF DISNAR AT COURT with Futurist interlude
(4 July and 30 July – 6pm)
The rediscovery of the Loggia and the Odeo Cornaro is entrusted to a guided tour which takes place
will conclude with theatrical interludes, under the suggestive Loggia, theater of the meetings of Cornaro’s illustrious friends. After the visit, an aperitif-dinner will accompany the guests on a refined foray into 13th century China and Asia, guided by the actor Simone Toffanin, who will perform some passages taken from Il Milione, the famous book by Marco Polo (of which this year marks the 700th anniversary of his death).
EL ROERSO WORLD OF RUZANTE
(11 July, possible recovery 12 July – 9pm)
Simone Toffanin brings to the stage with Laura Cavinato, Guido Laurjni and Emiliano Martinelli (singing and harp) a show of narration and prose where, without interruption and marked by popular/Renaissance music and songs, entertaining moments of narration will alternate in which they will explain the all-round figure of the artist Beolco and the topics covered in his works.
WALKING THROUGH PADUA WITH THE YOUNG PALLADIO
(29 July and 6 August – 6.30 pm)
Places, characters, events and anecdotes, which link the greatest genius of architecture
Renaissance in Padua, his hometown. Walking around Padua with the young Palladio is a
walking itinerary aimed at rediscovering the places and reliving the events that characterized Andrea Palladio’s childhood and adolescence in the city of the Saint before his definitive move to Vicenza, in 1524. The itinerary ends at the Loggia Cornaro, with the visit to the Renaissance complex, the work of the architect Giovanni Maria Falconetto who inspired Palladio in the creation of some of his masterpieces.
EVERYONE SLEEP ON THE HILL
(1 August, possible recovery 2 August)
The show produced by the Prototeatro company is inspired by the collection of poems “Anthology of Spoon River” by Edgar Lee Masters, written in the form of an epitaph, to briefly tell the life of the inhabitants of the imaginary village of Spoon River, buried in the local cemetery.
CARLO, GOLDONI & GIORGIO
(8 August, possible recovery 9 August – 9pm)
Carlo Goldoni’s comedies are photographs of an era. Three centuries later, what remains of that world? Carlo & Giorgio enter and exit the most famous scenes of Goldoni’s theatre, always using the wise tones of irony of which the playwright was the master par excellence.
ROCKISCHIOTTE – Living foolishly to die wisely
(22 August – 9pm, possible recovery in September)
On the evening of their consecration to the public, the rock band Thunder Mills has an accident, which makes the band’s singer a convinced musician without blemish and without fear, amidst illusions, dreams, loves and defeats. The Barbamoccolo and Artivarti companies give their modern and musical reading of Cervantes’ classic “Don Quixote”.
FURIOUSLY ORLANDO
(27 August, possible recovery 31 August)
The Pantarei group The show based on Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso. At the Court of Charlemagne, the perfidious advisor Gano has won the emperor’s trust and is plotting dark machinations. But he did not reckon with the valiant paladins Rinaldo and Orlando. Between hippogriffs, guardian angels, giants and young ladies, the comedy unfolds at a fast-paced pace in misunderstandings and intrigues from France to Syria, from Spain to the Moon.
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