Dante's La vita nuova, adapted by NICHOLAS RENTON, in a new translation by GRAHAM FAWCETT.
With Mike Gwilym and David Marrick as the older and the Younger Dante Alighieri and Philip Sully as Love.
La vita nuova (c.1249) is a collection of 31 poems arranged within an autobiographical Prose framework. Dante relates his own youthful love story: how, aged 9, he first saw the 9-year-old Beatrice Portinari; now, nine years later, she greeted him and he fell desperately in love with her; how he concealed that love; how, on her death at the age of 24, he found consolation and how he saw in her the ultimate Perfection of womanhood.
With GWEN CHERRELL. DAVID GARTH. JANE LEONARD. JAMES MACPHERSON. NATASHA PYNE, MELINDA WALKER and TESSA WORSLEY.
Italian voices GIAN CARLO ciccone. EMMA DINVERNO and GIGI GATTI.
Music by ILONA SEKACZ sung by NICOLE TIBBELS (soprano).
With the views of PETER LEVI , Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and DR PAMELA WILLIAMS. Dante scholar at Hull University.
Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS