Theatrical show for families, loosely inspired by THE GLORIES OF THE OBIZZI, aims to pleasantly recount the highlights of the history of the Obizzi family, within the villa of the same name in Albignasego.
To do this, it is imagined that Marquis Ferdinando degli Obizzi, the penultimate representative of the family (his only son, Tommaso, will have no heirs), poet and playwright, prince of the Accademia dei Ricovrati, welcomes actress Maddalena Raffi Marliani (1720 – 1784) around 1753 in his villa in Battaglia, who has just debuted in Venice as Mirandolina in Carlo Goldoni’s “La Locandiera”, a play she herself inspired in the famous Venetian author with her “lively, witty and naturally cunning” character.
Ferdinando, a great admirer of the actress and of Goldoni’s theatrical reform, which breaks away from the patterns of Commedia dell’arte to draw on characters from the real world, on one hand wants to appear open to new bourgeois values and a more sober and less pompous and schematic representation of society, while on the other hand cannot refrain from extolling the glories of his house.
The narration of the exploits of the Obizzi is “lightened” by the comments of the actress, who “plays hide and seek” with Ferdinando, slightly wounded in his pride by Maddalena’s indifference, and a bit intrigued by the woman’s game.
The flattering emphasis ultimately gives way to the final lines of Goldoni’s Locandiera, in which Mirandolina admonishes men to learn from the “wiles” of women “to the advantage and security of their hearts.”
Saturday, October 25th at 7:30 PM and 9:00 PM, at Villa Obizzi (Sala Verdi) in Albignasego.
FREE ENTRY.
Maximum number of participants: 99.
