Modena, Toni Servillo brings the Divine Comedy to the Cathedral 

A journey by Toni Servillo in the name of Dante and of that cultural heritage unique in the world which is the Divine Comedy, in a ideal dialogue with the Cathedral of Modena, world Heritage, splendid example of Romanesque art which amazed its contemporaries and continues to amaze today after centuries with its extraordinary beauty.

È “The Voices of Dante”, the show scheduled in the Modena Cathedral on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th October, to 21, for which Ticket presale begins on Saturday 13 July, That is among the main events of “Modena World Heritage Celebration”, la annual event dedicated to the UNESCO site which includes the Cathedral, the Ghirlandina and Piazza Grande. The show will be accessible not only inside the Cathedral but also from the churchyard, via wireless headphones.

Now in its seventh edition, the event proposes the theme this year “Eternal return – infinite past, infinite future” to summon the idea of ​​a past, That of the Roman Mutina, which lives again in the Romanesque monuments and through the centuries up to us, but also to remember how history and the voices of the people who have changed it, live and remain in our present and our future.

The program, da Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 October, Sara full of opportunities, From guided tours, workshops for children, for get to know the monumental complex and explore the theme of the relationship with the ancient, the buried roman city and what of it it was reused in the construction of monuments recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and with the key figure of Saint Geminian.

The flagship initiative of the event is, in fact, the show, with Toni Servillo, promoted by the Municipality of Modena and produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Basilica of Modena. The appointment was presented yesterday morning, Friday 12 July, XNUMX a press conference in which Andrea Bortolamasi participated, culture councilor, Cultural and creative industries, Promotion of the city and tourism; Monsignor Giuliano Gazzetti, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Modena and Nonantola; Giuliano Barbolini and Valter Malosti, president and director by Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT /National Theatre. Also present were Giovanni Bertugli, manager of the City Promotion and Tourism service of the Municipality of Modena, and Francesca piccinini, director of the Civic Museum and responsible for UNESCO Coordination.

Toni Servillo has connected by telephone, underlining the pride of being able to recite Dante in the Modena Cathedral and explaining that in his work East and West come together in the dream of a unity of knowledge and peoples, beyond geographical borders: “The horizon of our hopes still today goes beyond the borders of individual nations: Dante is our contemporary”.

“The Voices of Dante” tackles Dante's work through the original interpretation offered by Giuseppe Montesano's dramaturgical elaboration which, as he explained, wanted “freeing the Comedy from celebrations to bring it here with us, in our electric and disturbing contemporaneity. The great classics only make sense if they are relived through our needs and emotions, and they become ours only if we allow ourselves to be enchanted and grasped by them as if by a magic mirror".

The event “Modena World Heritage Celebration” is designed and promoted by the Civic Museum of Modena – Coordination of the World Heritage Site and the City Promotion and Tourism Service of the Municipality of Modena in collaboration with Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT /Teatro Nazionale. The 2024 edition is made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Modena Cathedral Museums, of the Metropolitan Chapter of Modena and of the Archdiocese of Modena and Nonantola, as well as of the Focal point creative cities and urban history – Department of Culture of Modena.

The initiative is part of the project "Enhancement and promotion of the UNESCO heritage and Media Arts to enhance the tourist attractiveness of the city", financed by the Ministry of Tourism as part of the Fund in favor of Municipalities with a cultural, historical, artistic and landscape vocation, in whose territories sites recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites are located and It is part of the two-year program for the promotion of tourism in the UNESCO site of Modena and in Modena, a UNESCO creative city for the Media Arts.