Paolo Emilio Landi Explained

Paolo Emilio Landi is an Italian theatrical director, journalist, and documentarian. He has filmed worldwide a number of documentaries for RAI (National Italian Broadcasting Company). He directed plays at several different theatres in the US, in Russian Federation and former Soviet Union.

Theater

Landi made his professional directing debut with the Italian national premiere of After Magritte (1986), by the English author Tom Stoppard.[1] with scenery designed by the American painter Jack Frankfurter. His following production, The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco,[2] [3] was performed in Italy,[4] France (Avignon Festival), the USA (Richmond, Virginia), and Russia (Omsk and Saratov).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall he continued his career in former URSS. In 1990 he worked in the previously closed town of Omsk.[5] Omsk Drama Theatre, Russia[6] He was the first director to stage an absurdist play, The Bald Soprano, in a Russian State Academic Theatre of the USSR.[7] [8]

He went on to stage 30 shows in academic and public theaters in cities throughout Russia and Eastern Europe, including Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Omsk,[9] Samara, Saratov,[10] [11] Riga,[12] Vilnius, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk. and Ufa.[13]

In the late nineties Paolo Emilio Landi traveled to the United States for his production of The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.[14] [15] [16] He then began a long association with the University of Richmond (Virginia) where he has been visiting scholar and instructor of theater and documentary-making.[17] During his time at the university he specialized in creating experimental works with students and faculty.[18]

Television

In 1982 Landi began collaborating with the television program Protestantesimo on Raidue (the State Italian Broadcasting Company) as a director, journalist and host. During his time with the 50-year old program, he produced hundreds of news stories, documentaries, musical programs and studio interviews.[19]

In 2001 he became a member of the Order of Journalists of Lazio. He has directed and produced documentaries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.[20]

For Rai WORLD,[21] (The Other Italy), he filmed more than 200 portraits of Italians living in South Africa, mostly in the cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Durban.

In 2015 Landi released a documentary on Nelson Mandela, broadcast on Italy's RAIDUE, as well as France 2,[22] RSI [23] (the Italian Swiss Broadcasting company) and RTS (the French Swiss broadcasting company)[24]

Landi most recent film work includes three documentaries shot in Washington, DC and New York City, USA. They are: L'ultimo giorno (9.11.2001) (The Last Day); So Help Me God (Trump at the White House); 100 giorni di Trump. (Trump's First Hundred Days). He filmed the last interview with late Winnie Madizikela Mandela.

International theatre productions

USA

Russia

Lithuania

Latvia

France

Germany

Books

Notes and References

  1. Lucio Romeo – Ionesco più Agatha Christie. Risultato: Tom Stoppard. IL TEMPO May 27, 1987
  2. Newspaper Franco Cordelli – Piccolo gruppo, grande successo – Europeo March 12, 1991.
  3. Marcantonio Lucidi – Folle, esilarante teatro dell'assurdo – Il messaggero, February 12, 1991
  4. Giorgio Serafini – Comicità anticomica di uno Ionesco da corsa – Il Tempo
  5. Web site: "Омский государственный академический театр драмы". Омский академический театр драмы.
  6. Ekaterina Nartimova, Komsomolskaja pravda, 2008
  7. L. Trubyzina – Let the absurd cross the stage – Vecerny Omsk, May 8, 1991
  8. Ludmila Pershina – What is our life? Absurd – Rampa – May 9, 1991
  9. Oksana Dubonos - Director Paolo Landi about Russian Pride - Business Kurs, April 4, 2008
  10. Irina Kraynova - Italians again in Russia - Volskij Vestnick - June 8, 2006
  11. Web site: Культура Саратова - Театры - Академический театр юного зрителя им. Ю.П. Киселёва - Спектакль "Брак по итальянски". Василий Зимин, Стас Авдеев, дизайнер Анастасия. Комнацкая. www.saratov-kultura.ru.
  12. Julia Tereshenko - The Red Butterfly of Pirandello - Baltiskaja Gazeta - January 1993
  13. Tamara Abrosimoba - A day in town, and at night? Theatre - Den v Gorode - Ufa 2006
  14. Alice Anne Conner - Comedy with Italian Accent - KENOSHA NEWS 1999,
  15. Damien Jacques - The Italian Connection - MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Feb 14, 1999.
  16. Web site: Last Chance: Goldoni's Two Masters To Leave Milwaukee Rep, March 28. Playbill.
  17. Web site: University of Richmond Players and Dancers to Present Comedy "Venetian Twins" . University of Richmond . en.
  18. Web site: Famed Italian director brings flair to language classroom . University of Richmond News . en.
  19. Web site: Protestantesimo-Raidue: la prima puntata del 2018 dedicata alla Costituzione italiana . Nev . it-IT . 11 January 2018.
  20. Web site: Paolo Emilio Landi. RAI.
  21. Web site: Community - L'altra Italia. Rai Italia.
  22. Web site: Programme TV - Présence protestante - L'Église de Mandela . Le Figaro . fr-FR.
  23. Web site: Segni dei tempi. RSI Radiotelevisione. svizzera. Radiotelevisione svizzera.
  24. Web site: L'Eglise de Mandela. Radio Télévision Suisse.
  25. Web site: Nov. 14-Dec. 8: 'Servant of Two Masters' . UDaily.
  26. Web site: Quill Theatre’s ‘The Heir Apparent’ aims to raise the bar with help from UR’s award winning director Paolo Emilio Landi . GayRVA.
  27. News Central - Roman Holydays - July 22, 2004
  28. Saratov Panorama - Not such a nonsense as they say - Oct.1.2010
  29. Saratov Regional Magazine - The novel appears... - May 22, 2014

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