Moscow, State Museum of Cinema

 

• Lyda Borelli – actress of stage and screen
• On 31 March the State Museum of Cinema in Moscow celebrated its anniversary, which this year fell on a Wednesday, the museum’s closing day. The following day, the museum, in collaboration with the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Moscow, opened the exhibition Lyda Borelli – actress of stage and screen, curated by Maria Ida Biggi and Marianna Zannoni.The exhibition tells the artistic story of one of the most fascinating Italian actresses of the early twentieth century. Specialists at the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma, with the support of Lyda Borelli’s descendants, study the life and work of Lyda Borelli. This exhibition is the result of lengthy research that also led to the publication of the monograph Il Teatro di Lyda Borelli, edited by Maria Ida Biggi and Marianna Zannoni (Fratelli Alinari, Florence 2017). Material for the exhibition was provided by various Italian institutions: museums, theatres, libraries and archives.
• The exhibition Lyda Borelli – actress of stage and screen strengthens the partnership between the State Museum of Cinema in Moscow and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Moscow, which began a year earlier while preparing the exhibition Federico Fellini: il Centenario.The exhibition was presented by the director of the State Museum of Cinema in Moscow, Larisa Solonitsyna, and by the director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Moscow, Daniela Rizzi. The director of the Istituto per il Teatro e il Melodramma at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Maria Ida Biggi, welcomed guests in a video message. At the close of the presentation, the film La memoria dell’altro, starring Lyda Borelli and restored by the Cineteca Nazionale in Rome, was screened, with live musical accompaniment by pianist Filipp Čeltsov.

Information

• Booklet
• Cini Foundation website