Teatro Stabile di Torino Study Centre
THE MEMORY OF LIVE PERFORMANCE
Created in 1973 with the acquisition of Il Dramma magazine’s archives together with the library of its founder Lucio Ridenti, and with the original collection of materials relating to the Drama Season programmes at Turin’s Teatro Stabile, the Study Centre has been expanding over the years, acquiring many other important collections of books and other sources relating to the theatre.
Since its establishment it has been systematically adding to its archives of documents on various stagings of Italian drama productions, and analytically cataloguing the library’s books (not including monographs and periodicals). The Study Centre offers consultation services to the public and has become a point of reference for the study of live performance in Italy for students and researchers as well as professionals working in the field.
Theatre library of 25,000 volumes: Lucio Ridenti Collection, Armando Rossi Collection, Gian Renzo Morteo Collection, Study Centre Library updated regularly. Historic and current theatre periodicals.
Consult the online catalogue
(search by author, title of dramatic text, subject).
Documentary archive of performances (over 30,000 folders): press clippings, photographs, theatre programmes, playbills and posters, audio and video recordings. Originally based on the material collected by Lucio Ridenti for the historic magazine Il Dramma (Turin, 1925-1973), and regularly updated since, it has become one of the major Italian archives on 20th-century drama.
It also includes the Teatro Stabile di Torino historical archive (from 1955), the Gruppo della Rocca Archive (1969-1999), the Laboratorio Teatro Settimo Archive (1982-2002), the Cabaret Voltaire Archive (1975-1994), Vittorio Gassman’s Teatro Popolare Italiano Archive (1959-1964), the Misa and Febo Mari Collection, Eugenio Salussolia’s scripts, Renato Simoni’s correspondence, the Gigi Cane Donation, the Davide Peterle Collection, the Alberto Blandi – Osvaldo Guerrieri Collection, the Gualberto Ranieri Donation, the Carla Bizzari Donation, the Rizzi-Trabucco Donation, the Edmo Fenoglio Donation, the Giorgio Calcagno Donation, the Giorgio Cattarello Collection and the Nuccio Messina Collection.
Turin’s Teatro Stabile Study Centre
Via Rossini,12 | 10124 Turin | biblioteca@teatrostabiletorino.it
Open to the public
from Monday to Friday, 9.30 am – 1 pm / 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm,
by prior reservation only
call +39 011 5169 405
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