Luigi Rasi dalla declamazione al melologo

The essay focuses on the musical and theatrical experimentations led by Luigi Rasi, Director of the “Regia Scuola di Recitazione di Firenze” (Royal School of Acting of Florence) between 1882 to 1918. Actor, writer, historian of theatre and teacher of declamation, Rasi brought on stage several works in the genre of melodrama, from Burger’s Lenore to Schumann’s Manfred. In collaboration with the “Regio Istituto Musicale di Firenze” (Royal Music Institute of Florence) and in dialogue with different European intellectuals (Arnaldo Bonaventura, Edward Dent, Edgardo Maddalena, between the others) Rasi researched and pursued an interested towards the relations between music and declamation, anticipating a field of experimentation which would have found later a larger fortune also in Italy.