The Italian Embassy in The Hague and the Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam are presenting the performance “I Nostri Antenati: Una Trilogia di Italo Calvino e la Musica del Sei e del Settecento” (Our Ancestors: A Trilogy by Italo Calvino and 17th– and 18th-Century Music) on 18 October, in collaboration with the CIDIM (Italian National Music Committee).
Andrea and Edoardo Coen are a father and son duo that presents an exciting combination of Italo Calvino’s literature and 17th– and 18th-Century music. They are known for performances that combine music and speech. With this show, the duo highlights the thread that links Calvino’s three novels: The Cloven Viscount (1952), The Baron in the Trees (1957) and The Nonexistent Knight (1959), each set in distant times and imaginary countries. Italo Calvino himself proposed in 1960 to create a literary collection entitled “I Nostri Antenati” (Our Ancestors) which would include all three novels, emphasising that all three stories shared the fact that they were far-fetched.
