Review of Marina Abramović, “7 Deaths of Maria Callas” (2020)

Antonio Pizzo teaches Dramaturgy of the Performance at the University of Turin (DAMS). He directs the CIRMA Interdepartmental Center for Research on Multimedia and Audiovisual, where he developed the computational ontology for the drama Drammar (Applied Ontology 2019). He founded the Officine Sintetiche project (www.officinesintetiche.it). For years he has been conducting research on the contamination between entertainment, technology, and digital multimedia. He studies virtual characters and their dramaturgical implications, and has published several papers for the Acting Archives Review. He has carried out research on the relationship between theater, algorithmic procedures, and artificial intelligence, with numerous contributions on journals and at conferences in both the IT and theatrical fields (TDR/The Drama Review 2019). He studies LGBT+ drama and has published on such topic (Mimesis Journal; Sinestesieonline / Rifrazioni). He is the author of

Materiali e macchine nel teatro di Remondi e Caporossi (1991), Teatro e mondo digitale (2003), Scarpetta e Sciosciammocca. Nascita di un buffo (2009), Neodrammatico digitale: scena multimediale e racconto interattivo (Accademia, Torino 2013), Teatro gay in Italia. testi e documenti (2019). He is co-author (with Vincenzo Lombardo e Rossana Damiano) of Interactive Storytelling (2021). He has edited the Italian translation of Alan Sinfield, Out on Stage. Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century (2020).

Marida Rizzuti is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Turin. She has published books on Kurt Weill’s musicals and several essays on the history of musicals, film musicals, and musical TV shows, theory of adaptation and audio­vision, music criticism in periodicals and the internet. In the last few years, she has been the recipient of several grants from institutions such as the Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel), The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (New York), and by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (Venice). Her primary interests are XX and XXI centuries American musical theater, exile and diaspora studies, film music, music criticism in the XX Century (US and Italy). She is the author of Il musical di Kurt Weill. Prospettive, generi, tradizioni (2006), Kurt Weill e Frederick Loewe. Pigmalione fra la 42ma e il Covent Garden (2015), Molly Picon e gli artisti yiddish born in Usa (2021).