GLI ULTIMI GIORNI DI VAN GOGH
Il diario ritrovato
Spettacolo teatrale con Marco Goldin
Tratto dal suo romanzo, “Gli ultimi giorni di Van Gogh. Il diario ritrovato” (edito da Solferino)
Musiche di Franco Battiato
Regia di Marco Goldin
The new theatrical show by Marco Goldin starts from Salsomaggiore and Trieste. It recalls, with music by Battiato, the last days of Van Gogh.
11 dates already scheduled in November and December. For a tour that will continue in 2023 throughout the national territory. The protagonist is Marco Goldin in “Gli ulitmi giorni di Van Gogh. Il diario ritrovato” (which draws inspiration from the novel of the same name published by Solferino, already in its second reprint 15 days after its release in the bookstore).
The “zero-day” evening of the tour – produced and distributed by International Music and Arts – will be on November 5, at the Teatro Nuovo in Salsomaggiore Terme (PR), while the national premiere will be proposed on November 8, in Trieste by the Politeama Rossetti. Followed by Bologna, Verona, Ancona, Turin, Bergamo, Milan, Udine, Padua, San Donà. With this grandiose show, of which he is the protagonist but also director and creator, Goldin returns to the theater after the successful 2018/2019 tour with “La grande storia dell’impressionismo”.
Official promo video of the show: https://youtu.be/V22f4un9yD0
“Gli ultimi giorni di Van Gogh” is part of a vast project with the same title, consisting of the novel, the five episodes that inaugurate the Treviso scholar’s podcast channel and obviously the theatrical representation with the exceptional contribution determined by the music of Franco Battiato.
Following the rhythm of his recently released novel, Goldin takes the stage to tell, with his usual passionate and engaging narration, the last weeks of Vincent van Gogh‘s life.
In the book at the base of the show he imagines that Van Gogh could have kept a diary in those final weeks and for this he lends him his voice. Obviously never detaching from the real events and yet dilating many voids and as many silences of the painter. In those final weeks, among other things, the Dutch artist wrote fewer letters than usual and talked about less than half of the more than seventy paintings he created. The novel and the show are therefore a continuous game of mirrors and references, between the colours, the words and the silences in which Battiato’s music almost rests.
That diary (“a somewhat tattered notebook, in dark green leather, with gold embroidery and a black spine”) is found by chance by Arthur Gustave Ravoux, the owner of the inn where Vincent lives between the end of May and the end of of July 1890. There are two weeks left before the painter’s death and Ravoux goes up to his attic room to make his bed and finds the drawer of the desk barely pushed. He opens it and discovers that diary that no one knew existed, but he doesn’t even tell Theo.
The theatrical action also starts from this narrative expedient, in talking almost to himself that Goldin does as if he were the one accompanying Van Gogh, and therefore observing him he tells it. All the scenography focuses very much on an effect of amazement in front of the images of the paintings, their details and also vintage photographs. In addition to a large and suggestive part of the film specially shot in Van Gogh‘s places in Provence, between Arles and the Crau plain, the beloved Alpilles and the mental health institute of Saint-Rémy in which he chose to stay for a year, but also in his native Bramante. It is a real show within a show. To be savored while sitting in the theatre, “immersed” in the images relaunched on the three screens positioned on the stage, with very high definition laser projections. The filming of the locations was done in Holland, Belgium and France by Luca Attilii and Fabio Massimo Iaquone. The editing and video animations are by Alessandro Trettenero.
The splendid music by Franco Battiato, exceptionally granted for this occasion, contributes to conveying the spiritual, yet dense atmosphere of the flesh and dreams of Van Gogh’s life. They are half taken from his “Gilgamesh”, released just thirty years ago, then from “Telesio” and from that particular and new album that was “Joe Patti’s experimental group”. Battiato loved Van Gogh and in front of his works he found himself talking about them with Marco Goldin.
A continuation of emotion, up to the final scene, when Van Gogh, on the verge of dying, sees his past full of enchantments as if on parade, next to Theo who holds his hand.
At that point it will just be the cornfields and starlight coming in from the small skylight above a man about to leave. Before returning again.
The show “Gli ultimi giorni di Van Gogh. Il diario ritrovato” enjoys the support of the Euromobil Group of the brothers Antonio, Gaspare, Fiorenzo and Giancarlo Lucchetta, who declare: “We are truly happy to return to support, after a few years, a new Marco Goldin’s work. Gruppo Euromobil was by his side for a long time in the long season of major exhibitions in various Italian cities, but he had never done so for a theatrical project. The importance of this show, which will be on tour for over a year with dozens of dates, and is enriched among other things by the wonderful music of a master such as Franco Battiato, has naturally moved us to resume a journey together. In fact, the beauty that manifests itself through the ancient art of theater remains something magical for us, a source of perennial emotion. Precisely what prompted us to link, from the beginning, the name of Gruppo Euromobil to the highest forms of culture”.
The first part of the theater tour will run from the beginning of November to the beginning of December 2022, to then resume from March 2023.
These are the first eleven replicas
For information and tickets: www.internationalmusic.it
November 5 2022, Salsomaggiore Terme (PR), Teatro Nuovo (day-zero), 9.00 p.m 
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November 10 2022, Bologna, Teatro Duse, 9.00 p.m vivaticket.it
November 13 2022, Verona, Teatro Filarmonico, 6.00 p.m ticketone.it
November 15 2022, Ancona, Teatro delle Muse, 9.00 p.m ticketone.it
November 20 2022, Torino, Teatro Colosseo, 6.00 p.m ticketone.it
November 23 2022, Bergamo, Teatro Creberg, 9.00 p.m ticketone.it
November 29 2022, Milano, Teatro Lirico “Giorgio Gaber”, 08.45 p.m ticketone.it
November 30 2022, Udine, Teatro Giovanni da Udine, 9.00 p.m ticketone.it
December 2 2022, Padova, Gran Teatro Geox, 9.15 p.m ticketone.it
December 7 2022, San Donà di Piave (VE), Teatro Astra, 9.00 p.m vivaticket.com
January 17 2023, Trieste, Politeama Rossetti, 9.00 p.m ticketone.it
March 17-19 2023, Castelfranco Veneto (TV), Teatro Accademico 08.45 p.m / 5.00 p.m vivaticket.com
March 22 2023, Genova, Politeama genovese, 9.00 p.m www.ticketone.it
March 25 2023, Mantova, Teatro Sociale, 9.00 p.m www.ticketone.it
March 26 2023, Trento, Teatro Auditorium Santa Chiara, 6.00 p.m www.ticketone.it; www.boxol.it
March 31 2023, Firenze, Tuscany Hall, 08.45 p.m www.ticketone.it
April 4 2023, Reggio Emilia, Teatro Romolo Valli, 9.00 p.m www.ticketone.it
April 14 2023, Perugia, Teatro Morlacchi, 9.00 p.m www.ticketone.it; ticketitalia.com
April 20 2023, Gorizia, Teatro Comunale G. Verdi, 08.45 p.m www.vivaticket.com
May 3 2023, Ravenna, Teatro Alighieri, 9.00 p.m vivaticket.com
