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At the end of July the inauguration of the Foundation-Museum Franco Zeffirelli in Florence

Zeffirelli

District: Tuscany
Province: Florence (FI)
Locations: Florence (FI)
Date: 2017-07-12

At the end of July the inauguration of the Foundation-Museum Franco Zeffirelli in Florence

ZeffirelliFranco Zeffirelli can finally rejoice. At the end of July will be inaugurated the Franco Zeffirelli Onlus Foundation, the International Center for the Performing Arts. "After many years I realize the dream of life: to entrust to my city, Florence, my artistic heritage, along with all my memory."

The Foundation's headquarters are located in the former Palazzo della Giustizia in Piazza San Firenze: two floors in a baroque building in the city center for approximately 3,200 square meters of space.

The Structure will have a dual function.

It will be first of all a large museum that will occupy the first floor. An invaluable value museum, which will contain the precious testimonies of the artist's extraordinary artistic adventure: costumes, personal archives, photos, epistles, sketches, ten thousand volumes of his library, some of the furniture declared of historic interest. An extraordinary heritage that will surely be a unique attraction for admirers and scholars all over the world and will allow to divulge and enhance Franco Zaffirelli's work.

But it will first have a function of teaching and training. On the ground floor there will be a real School for the Performing Arts with spaces for concerts and screenings and with classrooms for the development of training courses and workshops. Courses will be planned on stage and costumes design, on direction, on acting for lyrical singing. Through training stages and high quality courses, it plans to form the figures of excellence of tomorrow's performing arts.

An ambitious project that, after some difficulties that even suggested a transferral of the Center to Rome, was achieved thanks to the sponsorship of the Franco Zeffirelli Onlus Foundation, to the support of the City of Florence and the economic commitment of Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Kusnirovich and of Canadian financial American Robert Friedland.

The inauguration of July 31 is foreseen as an event in itself. Artists from all over the world are waited: from Cher to Richard Gere to Placido Domingo. Andrea Bocelli announced that for the occasion will perform with a chorus of boys from Haiti.

 

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