July 10 – I Promessi Sposi’s Japanese tour ends today in Sapporo. The play, directed and starring Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, is a mix of literature, dance and music, based on the novel by Alessandro Manzoni. It seduced and charmed the Chinese and Japanese people in an extraordinary month-long tour with ten performances in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Tokyo , Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, and Sapporo. The subtitles in Chinese (by Liu Tongliu) and Japanese (by Hirakawa) accompanied the audience on a journey in the Italian 17th century on the mountains around the lake of Como.
