He always lived surrounded by women, Giorgio Albertazzi, secretaries, involved in public relations, musicians and of course actresses. And to them it was always fatherly and generous, “to thank them for their presence in my life.” Most importantly, his wife Pia de ‘Tolomei, does the actress, but was close to the last moment and, in recent days, he was very worried, “because – he said – Giorgio you give too much and is no longer a boy”. But Albertazzi, the ‘loser of success, “as he titled one of his books, was like that: he wanted to die on the stage,” to all the players would love: it is the greatest celebration, it’s wonderful, “and told an anecdote about Molière “When he died on the scene while recited the” sick imagination “, the audience, who had not noticed the death, murmured:” tonight has acted the part of the evil dead “… and it was really dead.” In short, to die on stage for Albertazzi, that the scene has practiced for nearly seventy years, was a sneer.
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Giorgio Albertazzi, a life on the stage
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Born in Fiesole August 20, 1923 he debuted with “Troilus and Cressida” Shakespeare in 1949 with Luchino Visconti. He loved to remember when, in 1964, was his “Hamlet” directed by Zeffirelli to be selected and represented the Old Vic in London to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Bard. A career, his, which has ranged from film to television, unforgettable films as “Last Year at Marienbad” in scripted equally memorable as “The Idiot” and “Jekyll.” Among his most successful theatrical interpretations, “Memoirs of Hadrian” of Yourcenar, directed by Maurizio Scaparro: a show that, since he made his debut at the Villa Adriana in Tivoli in 1989, has reached almost 1,000 replies, in Italy and abroad . But an infinite number of titles crowding her story of protagonist: “It took me a couple of years to learn how to act like Ricci and Benassi. It took me a whole life to learn not to play more. I do not I act, I am. ” What animated him was the “duende” his creative genius and so loved the provocation: among many others, also to appear naked in public, even if only for a fleeting moment, at age 87, in the show “Trying Picasso ‘directed by Antonio Calenda.
Companions of life and stage
On his protagonists side , stage companions and life, as Bianca Maria Toccafondi, Anna Proclemer, Elisabetta Pozzi, Mariangela D’Abbraccio. An irreducible libertine until older age, while calling himself a Casanova than a Don Giovanni: celebrated his ninetieth birthday celebrating Gabriele D’Annunzio, his pluck battle, his favorite poet. “Yes, because the poet was a sex maniac, which is also filled with many words, but when he covered the body of his lover of rose petals, rather than an unconventional game, had a poetic gesture. And for me, as often it happens to amateurs, has only had to turn it an unforgettable place. ” And despite competing with the great classical repertoire, did not neglect the irony and lightness, “which helps to overcome, to endure the heaviness of life, the laughter turns into a smile, sadness in melancholy”. A lightness that showed, even recently, even taking part in a show like “Dancing with the Stars.”
No fear of death
In short , Albertazzi every night on stage armed himself as a warrior, descending into the arena to kill the bull and being in front of an audience of men and especially the women who were eager to embrace him, congratulate him, even kiss him. In this regard, he recounted: “A few years ago, in a theater, I came to say goodbye to a beautiful young woman, saying” I have to tell you two important things: the first is that I want a son from her. ‘ ” As a child, though, Albertazzi has never had: he admitted not cut out to be a father. Old age disturbed him because “it is more body of youth, forcing you to deal with your body, claiming his needs. When you’re young you do not realize it, he obeys. But then comes the moment that tells you “no, this can not do it because you’re old. ‘” So he not bear to appear in recent times, on stage helped by a cane, because of a leg that bothered him. He was not afraid of death: he considered an important event. “It is the absolute, is a mystery. Do not be afraid, because they already do not know what happens after her is exciting. And then – he added – if there really is hell, as he said Flaiano, sinners are naked tuti, and maybe we can have fun. “
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