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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.
There is an abundance of autobiographical information on Goldoni, most of which comes from the introductions to his plays and from his Memoirs. However, these memoirs are known to contain many errors of fact, especially about his earlier years.
In these memoirs, he paints himself as a born comedian, careless, light-hearted and with a happy temperament, proof against all strokes of fate, yet thoroughly respectable and honorable.
Actors: Pier Luigi Pizzi (actor), Luca Ronconi (actor), Alessandro Bressanello (actor), Lluís Pasqual (actor), Luigi Lunari (writer), Maurizio Scaparro (actor), Alessandro Bettero (director), Lucio Scarpa (producer), Ferruccio Soleri (actor), Lucio Scarpa (producer), Federica Ravera (miscellaneous crew), Jacopo Fontana (miscellaneous crew), Emilio Briguglio (actor), Amelia Fiorenzato (producer), Francesco Wolf (actor),
Plot: In the 1700's, while the glory of Venice was to the apex of its splendor but to the beginning of its express decline, Carlo Goldoni anticipated the French revolution renewing the European theatre: it removed to the actors the mask of the comedies of the art in order to show the true face and the emotions of the bourgeois of the age of the illuminism.
Keywords: 18th-century, aristocracy, costume, gondola, paris-france, theatre, venice-italyActors: Andréa Ferréol (actress), Valérie Mairesse (actress), Luciano Vincenzoni (writer), Catherine Lachens (actress), Alain Doutey (actor), Galeazzo Benti (actor), Victor Lanoux (actor), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Luciano Tartaglia (miscellaneous crew), Vincent Spano (actor), Yorgo Voyagis (actor), Massimo Dapporto (actor), Etienne Périer (actor), Etienne Périer (writer), Etienne Périer (director),
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: Piero De Bernardi (writer), Gianni Cavina (actor), Adriano Celentano (actor), Roberto Della Casa (actor), Marco Messeri (actor), Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni (costume designer), Detto Mariano (composer), Carlo Goldoni (writer), Milena Vukotic (actress), Leonardo Benvenuti (writer), Paolo Villaggio (actor), Lucio Montanaro (actor), Angelo Curi (editor), Claudia Mori (actress), Camillo Milli (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Wolf Kaiser (actor), Fred Düren (actor), Jan Werich (actor), Ugo Pirro (writer), Harry Hindemith (actor), Norbert Christian (actor), Liana Ferri (writer), Eva-Maria Hagen (actress), Rolf Ludwig (actor), Nico Pepe (actor), Nico Pepe (actor), Heinz Schubert (actor), Christel Bodenstein (actress), Otto Erich Edenharter (actor), Gerd Biewer (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Nico Pepe (actor), Mario Serandrei (editor), Mario Feliciani (actor), Maria De Matteis (costume designer), Gino Sensani (costume designer), Pina Gallini (actress), Carlo Goldoni (writer), Ezio Carabella (composer), Achille Majeroni (actor), Angelo Dessy (actor), Rossano Brazzi (actor), Piero Palermini (actor), Egisto Olivieri (actor), Cesco Baseggio (actor), Cesco Baseggio (writer),
Genres: Drama,