the versiliana in Viareggio

The Versiliana, like place of show and cultural entertainment, has succeeded in little years to imporsi like the most prestigious space of the Versilia and, in the course of 21 editions, it has assumed rinomanza also to national level. The Park of the Versiliana, to the inside of which it carries out the Festival in the months of July and August, is found in Fiumetto locality (Marine of Pietrasanta) and takes the name from omonima the villa to its inside, built up to the end of the 1800's from Conti Digerini Nuti. Large they are the fascination and the magic that encircle this splendid residence, become famous for to have accommodated in the first years of the 1900's Gabriel d' Annunzio. The history of its stays to the Versiliana often gets confused with the legend, many and several supposizioni on the precise dates of its stays, the women with which it was accompanied here, the works that composed inspired from this natural and evocative landscape. It loved to entertain itself with its well-read friends just to the shadow of the splendid pines of the park and s' he engaged in promoting a theatre to the open where its works and the great classics of the history of the literature could be recited. Subsequently, always in the charming forest between Pietrasanta and Forte of Marbles, versiliese writer Enrico Pea made to raise a structure in wood and a stage that a tempio reproduced Greek, where represented important works (which the Oreste di Vittorio Flagmen) and came recovers the May to you, the primaverili propiziatori rituals, that they sink their roots in the albori of the civilization, with the always present topic of the "fight" and the "Victoria" of the summer on the winter, of the good on the evil, the life on the dead women. To these noble origins one is connected directly first manifestation of prosa, that it can be considered like an embryonic nucleus of the Festival, been born in 1968 with the name of ' Summery Teatrale Season ", on initiative of the Local tourist office of the Coast of the Versilia, that prepared in an adjacent space to the Villa a theatre to the open where could be recited classic works of prosa. The First absolute of the "teatrale Company Coast of the Versilia" was ' Antigone "of Vittorio Flagmen, continuation then from the rappresentazione of commedia of Shakespeare ' the Much null noise for" and de ' the torch under the moggio "of Gabriel d' Annunzio. In the summer of 1975 this teatrale activity came managed directly from the Common one of Pietrasanta, under whose aegis came organizes shows to you of high level, with interpreters like Vat Buazzelli, Mario Scaccia, George Albertazzi, Anna Proclemer, Valeria Moriconi, Paola Borboni, Gabriel Lavia, Small Ottavia. And the communal Administration succeeded, in 1979, to conclude the long negotiation started with eredi of the Nuti-Mattoli family for the purchase of the ' P' arc and the ' Versiliana Villa.' ' E' 1980 therefore the year of official birth of the Festival of the Versiliana, under the guide of Martini Franc, name artistic director of the manifestation, with a rich billboard in which they enunciated characterized Companies of the most prestigious national theatres, that will see, in the course of the successive season, the introduction of the section of the ballet and the start of the Encounter to the afternoon Coffee (every day to hours 18,00), characterizes to you from the presence of famous personages of the culture, politics, the show, of sciences, with the attempt riproporre the tradition of the cultural cenacoli, than in order much time the Versilia had characterized. The history of the ' Festival until to the days ours rich and is illuminated from intelligent choices and sages of the programs: the teatrali shows have introduced classic works and the other less impegnative ones, and some of the shows more applaud you of the last decades just are been born on this stage; modern classic has been given to wide space to the ballet and, with international Italian companies and also; large happening of public and critic has been for the appointments dedicates you to music of author and the artists of cabaret and comedians, than we do not save to nobody theirs satira pungente.