‘La Bellezza’ pays homage to Giovanni Verga

‘La Bellezza’, the event conceived and directed by Angelo Butera, this year at the Archaeological Park of Himera, will celebrate Giovanni Verga, one of the great authors of Italian literature, in the year of the centenary of his death. The event, which reaches its sixth edition in 2022, will be held as part of the cultural initiatives promoted by the Regional Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity and by the Archaeological Park of Himera, Solunto and Monte Iato, and will take place during the month of June 2022. Seven days of theatrical performances, concerts, meetings and debates entirely dedicated to the literary and dramaturgical activity of the Catania writer, fully considered the greatest exponent of the literary current of realism. The initiative was presented a few days ago in Palermo by Angelo Butera, during a meeting with some tour operators and cultural operators on the occasion of the presentation of the Festival Calendar.

“In past years we had already focused on the binomial” Beauty & Himera “, explains Butera,” a concept and a geographical place that merge into a single idea that points to the same spirit of man, to his ideal representation, to his artistic work “. “Now – continues the Palermo director – we are reaching the concrete, with the conception of various initiatives on Giovanni Verga, On the stage of the temple of Victory, in Himera, some of Verga’s major works will be represented: from” Rosso Malpelo “to” Story of a blackcap ”, from“ Mastro don Gesualdo ”to the“ Novelle rusticane ”, to the“ Malavoglia ”. “Often the arts – concludes Butera – are modeled and enriched by virtue of the places.

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