The actor and director Gabriele Lavia turns 80, on Monday his birthday

With “Il berretto a sonagli” by Luigi Pirandello he will make his debut at the Quirino Theater in Rome on 8 November

Gabriele Lavia, one of the great protagonists of the Italian theater, is preparing to cross the milestone of 80 years: the actor and director will celebrate his special birthday on Monday 10 October with his wife, actress Federica Di Martino, with whom he married in 2015, and the three children, Lorenzo, born from the first marriage with the actress Annarita Bartolomei, and Maria Fragolina and Lucia, born from the second marriage with the actress Monica Guerritore. It will be “a simple family party”, also because Lavia is currently engaged in the rehearsals of “Il berretto a rattle” by Luigi Pirandello, which will debut at the Quirino Theater in Rome on November 8, where it will remain on the bill until the following 20 . The official date is October 11, 1942, but the real birth is the day before. “My father was unable to get to the registry office in time,” said the actor.



Equipped with uncommon vocal means, Gabriele Lavia has established himself as an interpreter of classical characters (Edgardo in Re Lear, 1973, directed by Giorgio Strehler, and in Hamlet, 1978; I masnadieri, 1982; The Prince of Homburg, 1982 ; Don Carlos, 1983). Since 1975 he has also been involved in an intense activity as a director.

Among his shows, characterized by a strong sense of the grotesque and deformation, stand out: William Shakespeare’s Otello (1975); Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot (1977); The divorce of Vittorio Alfieri (1980); The Father (1980) and The Pelican (1981) by August Strindberg; Shakespeare’s Richard III (1989); The man, the beast and the virtue (1992) and The game of parts by Pirandello (1996); After the test by Ingmar Bergman (2000); Lavia’s own immortal story (2002); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (2005); Measure for Measure by Shakespeare (2007); Friedrich Schiller’s I Masnadieri (2011); Attila by Giuseppe Verdi (2012); Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni (2018); in 2021, Oscar Wilde’s Fables.

Using an impetuous and powerful register and grotesque and dark tones, through the various works represented Lavia has investigated with great attention the soul of contemporary man, capturing the restlessness of thought and telling himself.

He has also worked in the cinema as an actor (The suspect by Francesco Maselli, 1975; Profondo rosso by Dario Argento, 1975; The legend of the pianist on the ocean, in 1998, and Baarìa, in 2009, by Giuseppe Tornatore; I am not sleepy by Argento , 2001; Remember me by Gabriele Muccino, 2003) and as director (The Prince of Homburg, 1983; La Lupa, 1996).



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