MILAN – One of the most important figures of the Italian theater of the twentieth century. Giorgio Albertazzi passed away at the age of 92 while he was in the house of Pia De ‘Tolomei in Tuscany. The last appearances in the theater in The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest and Memoirs of Hadrian. As the family announced, announcing the death of the “greatest Italian actor, Albertazzi for some time” was suffering and his heart stopped beating at 9 “. THE BEGINNINGS– He made his stage debut in 1949 in Shakespeare’s Troilo and Cressida, directed by Luchino Visconti at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Despite having made about thirty films (including a Resnais film Last year in Marienbad) and having worked extensively on television, especially as an interpreter of successful television dramas in the sixties (including L’idiota and Jekyll), Albertazzi and above all a great theater actor, often also director of his own shows. In 1964, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, he made his debut at the Old Vic theater in London with Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and with female protagonists Anna Proclemer and Anna Maria Guarnieri. The show that remains on the bill for two months,THE MAIN STAGES IN THEATER– At the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1969 and Oedipus in Oedipus re (Sophocles) with incidental music by Andrea Gabrieli directed by Giorgio De Lullo, with Anna Proclemer, Renzo Palmer, Gualtiero Tumiati, Mario Erpichini, Gabriele Lavia, Alfredo Bianchini, Roberto Rizzi and Tonino Pierfederici. In 1974 he takes part in the television series Philo Vance, where he plays the part of the investigator created by SS Van Dine. At the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1980 he directed and adapted Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg and a reciting voice with Anna Proclemer, Elisabetta Pozzi and Bianca Toccafondi directed by Piero Bellugi. Since 1994 he has founded and directed, together with the Associazione Progetto Citta, the Scenic Arts Laboratory Citta di Volterra Il Verso L’Afflato Il Canto from which dozens of young actors and actresses will emerge.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PRIVATE LIFE– In 1997 he collaborates with the singer Giuni Russo in Verba Tango, a contemporary music and poetry show that sees the production of Ezio Trapani. In 1999 he brought Borges on the stage in tango with the students of the Volterra School. Since 2003 he has been director of the Teatro di Roma, a role then abandoned years later. His partner on stage and in life (after a sentimental relationship with the actress Bianca Toccafondi) starting from 1956 was Anna Proclemer. To crown a very intense and still active career, in 2004 the Italian public honored him with the Gassman Award for his career. At the same time, he brings on stage, together with Dario Fo, a series of shows-lessons on the history of theater in Italy, subsequently broadcast by Rai 2. On 10 February 2006 he interpreted the Canto di Ulisse, from Dante, during the opening ceremony of the XX Winter Olympic Games in Turin. On 12 December 2007 he married in Rome, through a civil ceremony, with the Florentine noblewoman Pia Tolomei di Lippa. The two are 36 years apart: 84 Albertazzi, 48 the new wife.THE LAST APPEARANCES – In 2009 at the Ghione Theater and interpreter of American Lessons by Italo Calvino, directed by Orlando Forioso, and at the Greek Theater of Syracuse by Oedipus in Colono by Sophocles, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. Also in 2009, for Rai 2, he recorded a reading of the Divine Comedy in the ruins of the historic center of L’Aquila, following the earthquake of April 6. On 1 September 2013 he received the honorary citizenship of Ricadi. In the 2014-2015 season at the Ghione Theater and interpreter of Il mercante di Venezia together with Franco Castellano.
