Florence's Museo Novecento turns into a choral theater space this summer

The Novecento Museum in Florence is offering 100/900 Art Theater Music for the summer, the project that hosts theatrical readings, concerts and lectures at the Florentine museum venue. A rich program of free evening events open to the public. The Museo Novecento is thus transformed into a choral theater space to accommodate up to one hundred seated seats, distributed between the Renaissance cloister and loggia.

The project kicked off on Thursday, July 2, with the Reading Pratolini cycle, a theater project dedicated to the great Tuscan writer, while on Friday, July 3, the Piano Novecento concert series will begin. In the following weeks, the works of the great artists of the twentieth century will also be featured in the museum’s cloister with Made in Italy, lectures-talks given by the museum’s director, Sergio Risaliti. The events will all begin at 9 p.m. and continue until early October, concluding with a major public and theatrical performance in Piazza Santa Maria Novella.

“We are extremely happy and proud to open to theater and classical music our beautiful museum, which proves to be interdisciplinary and versatile, even in its use of space,” said director Sergio Risaliti. "We want to offer our visitors a wide-ranging summer program, which makes them rediscover, for example, the history of the city of Florence through the pages of Vasco Pratolini, to remind us of how ’beautiful,’ though ’poor,’ many Florentine boys who lived in working-class neighborhoods were, full of doubts and hopes, united by a strong sense of solidarity, by ancient instincts and feelings. A source of pride is the collaboration with the Fondazione del Teatro della Toscana and the iNuovi company. There is no greater artistic and scientific satisfaction than to see young actors try their hand at the texts of a great 20th century author like Pratolini, to hear from their voices the small and big events of a Florence that has changed enormously in the space of just a century, both in places and in souls, both anthropologically and urbanistically."

“Another source of cultural pride,” added Risaliti, "is returning to the museum’s cloister with classical music and piano. The project curated by Riccardo Sandiford, Piano Novecento, starts from a deep reflection on the months that have just passed and on the state of mind of all of us, prisoners of a suspended time, tested by loneliness, fear and separation. Music wants to be with visual art and literature our banner to be reborn as a city and as humanity. The activity of the Museo Novecento has been characterized in the last two years by its dimension as an interdisciplinary laboratory, as a place for research and updating, for training and enhancement starting from its the permanent collection. We have collaborated with new contemporary artistic realities, opening up to the different languages of theater and music, performance and dance. A sustainable project that has not enslaved itself to the box office algorithm and remains faithful to its public function, its cultural and scientific role. We want to continue this path by overcoming the great difficulties of the current crisis with tenacity and utmost caution by investing the few resources to the best of our ability in building a more human and less ephemeral culture."

“In addition to being one of the first live theater events,” commented Marco Giorgetti, General Director Fondazione Teatro della Toscana, "involving the Fondazione Teatro della Toscana after its closure due to the health emergency, this with the Museo Novecento is an important collaboration both for the involvement of iNuovi, the young actors trained by the Foundation, and for the use of a place that is not purely theatrical but of great cultural value, in order to share values and perspectives in this time of great difficulty."

All events will take place in the open-air settings of the museum. Admission is free while places last.

For info: www.museonovecento.it

Florence's Museo Novecento turns into a choral theater space this summer

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