Jan. 19 – For Dante Alighieri’s 750th birthday, the network of the Italian Institutes of Culture has decided to celebrate the father of Italian language. On the banks of the Danube, IIC Budapest is scheduling numerous events on the author of the Divine Comedy. On January 26, the Federico Fellini Hall of the Institute hosts the show “Vita Nuova / Dante Alighieri” with Paolo Simioni Antonio (also director) and Giuseppe Paolo Cecere. “The show has the interpreters accompany the public in an uninterrupted flow – commented a statement by the IIC – of monologues, poetic diction, narrative, and musical performance.” Specialist of the Stanivslavskij method, Simioni was one of Susan Batson’s youngest students; he now performs mainly between Italy and Hungary. As director and actor, Simione worked with some of the major cultural institutions of the two countries for film, television, theater and art. (Red)
