As part of the 24th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World,-which this year has as its theme “Italian and the Book: the World between the Lines” –the Embassy of Italy in Bulgaria with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia, the Embassy of Switzerland in Bulgaria and the University “St. Clement of Ohrid” in Sofia organised – on 16 October, at the New Conference Hall of the same University – the staged reading in Italian of excerpts from Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed by Italian actor, playwright and theatre director Massimiliano Finnazer Flory.
The reading, accompanied by the music of Matteo Fedeli ‘s violin (a Guarneri violin of 1706), is a stage adaptation in the form of a monologue, promoted and recognised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as a work of national interest. It has boasted more than 50 performances abroad since 2011, in over 15 countries.
The event was attended by the Director of Italian Philology courses, Prof. Nedda Boyadzhieva, and the Dean of the Classical and New Philology Faculty, Prof. Gergana Petkova, as well as the Director of the Italian Institute of Culture, Maria Mazza, the Deputy Head of Mission of the Swiss Embassy, Rolf Ott, and Italian language and literature Professor Radeya Gesheva.
The guests included Prof. Fernanda Lavalle (lecturer sent by the Foreign Ministry serving at the National Cultural Complex in Gorna Banya with the Liceo di Lingua e Cultura Italiana on the basis of the bilateral Protocol between the two countries), university students, pupils from high schools teaching Italian, personalities from the literary world and numerous other friends of Italy.
