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Studio per due attrici: Adelaide Ristori ed Eleonora Duse
This essay investigates the relationship between two outstanding actresses, Adelaide Ristori and Eleonora Duse. They are the reference points for two opposing generations, and very different models in terms of art, repertoire choices, leadership.
Mirella Schino
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Adelaide Ristori. Ritratto dell’artista in commedia
In retracing the genesis of her work in the Artistic Studies (1887), Adelaide Ristori dwells on the creative process of tragedy characters. But Adelaide Ristori was particularly admired by contemporary audiences and critics in her interpretations of ...
Paola Ranzini
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«Il più efficace cooperatore dei negozi diplomatici»? Adelaide Ristori e il conte Cavour
In April 1861, just one month after the proclamation of the Unification of Italy, Prime Minister Cavour defined Adelaide Ristori «the most effective co-operator of diplomatic negotiations», praising her work at the court of the Czar in the winter of 1860.
Matteo Paoletti
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«Une grande danseuse»: corpo e movimento nella ‘Medea’ di Adelaide Ristori
Commenting on Adelaide Ristori’s interpretation of Medea in 1858, Théophile Gautier drew a comparison with the Austrian dancer Fanny Elssler. According to Gautier, Ristori as Medea revealed her talent as a dancer, which could flourish to the fullest ...
Giulia Taddeo
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Sull’utilità della Storia delle donne per rileggere il protagonismo di Adelaide Ristori
I propose to rethink Adelaide Ristori in a hitherto unconsidered context: a History of the actor that places the category of gender at the centre, not as an add-on but as a problematic function, in order to investigate the specificity – if it exists and ...
Laura Mariani
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This essay examines the presence of Alighieri’s poetry in the repertory and the self-promotion of Adelaide Ristori. During her career the exceptional tragic performer showed a clear interest in recitals where she used to combine excerpts from famous ...
Andrea Simone
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Il fondo Adelaide Ristori al Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore di Genova
The Adelaide Ristori Archive has been kept at the Museo Biblioteca dell’Attore in Genoa since 1967, after the donation of Irma Castren Capranica del Grillo.
Donatella Mezzani
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Adelaide Ristori ed Ernest Legouvé. La via francese alla carriera internazionale
This essay aims to focus on the professional relationship between Adelaide Ristori and Ernest Legouvé as an example of the collaboration between an actress and a playwright within a prestigious international context.
Mariagabriella Cambiaghi
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Generazioni di attori. Il carteggio di Adelaide con Maddalena Ristori e gli affanni della capocomica
This essay aims to submit a first survey of the substantial correspondence between Antonio and Maddalena Ristori, both actors, with their daughter Adelaide.
Francesca Simoncini
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After composing Adrienne Lecouvreur, a drama co-written with Eugène Scribe and starring Rachel, Ernest Legouvé wrote a Médée for her. But the great actress, although she had already agreed to play the part of the protagonist, decided to give it up.
Francesco Puccio
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