Lyda Borelli

Lyda Borelli diva cinematografica

Lyda Borelli diva cinematografica

Venice, Sala Barbantini, Fondazione Giorgio Cini



  • Lyda Borelli, silent-film diva , 4 June 2019, 5.00pm
  • To mark sixty years since the death of Lyda Borelli, who died on 2 June 1959, and as part of the events dedicated to rediscovering her as an artist, the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma organises the day Lyda Borelli diva cinematografica: an event devoted to the cinema of the great actress, a leading lady of national and international stages who, in the 1910s, became a true star of the big screen.

    At 6.00pm the film La memoria dell’altro is screened, directed by Alberto Degli Abbati in 1913 and restored in 2017 by the Cineteca Nazionale – Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In the film, shot amid beautiful Venetian exteriors, Lyda Borelli plays the aviator Lyda, an emancipated woman with a passion for flying and engines. The screening is accompanied by live music performed by Francesco Baccichet (guitar), Sabina Bakholdina (violin) and Andrea Vecchiato (flute).
  • 5.00pm | INTRODUCTORY TALK

    Cristina Jandelli, Una donna moderna
    Denis Lotti, La guerra di Lyda

    Presentation of the restoration by Daniela Currò, curator at the Cineteca Nazionale – Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome

  • Daniela Currò Daniela Currò, our excellent speaker at this talk, photographed in Cannes behind Lina Wertmüller (later an honorary Oscar recipient), Giancarlo Giannini and Leonardo Di Caprio
  • 6.00pm | FILM SCREENING

    La memoria dell’altro

    DIRECTED BY Alberto Degli Abbati, 1913

    LIVE MUSIC
    Francesco Baccichet guitar
    Sabina Bakholdina violin
    Andrea Vecchiato flute

    Restoration and film courtesy of the Cineteca Nazionale – Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome.

    The restoration was carried out on the initiative of the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma and the actress’s heirs, on the occasion of the exhibition Lyda Borelli primadonna del Novecento (2017).