Publication details
Le peripezie intercontinentali di un dramma italiano. Suor Teresa di Luigi Camoletti (1848)
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | The intercontinental adventures of an Italian drama. Sister Teresa by Luigi Camoletti (1848) |
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| Web | ADI Associazione degli italianisti |
| Keywords | drama; intercontinental |
| Description | Suor Teresa or Elisabetta Soarez (Novara, Crotti, 1851) is a five-act drama represented on stages all over the world by the Italian Drama Company. Always recited in the original language, the play finds its place within an extraordinary international phenomenon that characterized the nineteenth century, that of the intercontinental tours of Italian prose great actors, and crosses the life and career of one of the greatest tragic interpreters of world fame. that the nineteenth century remembers Adelaide Ristori, from whom the work was consecrated as a true international masterpiece. Sister Teresa is, therefore, a theatrical text of great interest, recited in Italian all over the world, composed in 1848 by Luigi Camoletti (1803-1880) from Novara, a multifaceted intellectual, journalist, playwright, librettist, critic and historian of the theater, known above all for the composition of sentimental and 'effect' dramas, with which he reaches a wide consensus with the public, especially abroad. Due to the delicate subject addressed, of anticlerical matrix, the work was subject to changes and cuts by the censorship. The object, considered burning and unbecoming, in fact risked tarnishing the good name of the high-ranking clergy who, behind forced professions of faith, hid the political and economic interests of the good families of the period. These same prohibitions fed at the same time the curiosity of the audiences, animated by the courage and determination of the character. |