Giovanni Raboni e i tragici greci: dalla traduzione alla riscrittura

[Autom. eng. transl.] Giovanni Raboni's first direct contact with the Attic tragedy dates back to 1994, when at the invitation of Luca Ronconi he translated Ecuba by Euripide, directed by Massimo Castri, in the 1994/95 season of the Teatro di Roma (the debut was on November 29th Argentina Theater). Six years later the National Institute of Ancient Drama, on the occasion of the 36th Classical Theater Festival, commissioned him to translate Sophocles' Antigone, which was staged at the Greek Theater in Syracuse in June 2000, directed by Patrice Kerbrat, then, in September of the same year, at the Olimpico in Vicenza, as part of the 53rd cycle of Classic Shows. In 2002 it was finally published, in the series 'The elephants' by Garzanti, Alcesti, or The recitation of exile, originally intended for a performance in the same Olympic and later, having failed this hypothesis, staged at the Teatro Santa Chiara in Brescia on 7 January 2004, directed by Cesare Lievi, then Director of the Centro Teatrale Bresciano. In the dichotomy, typical of the Greek tragic theater, between consciously or unconsciously destructive female characters of the oikos (Clytemestra, Medea, Elena, Deiainira, etc.) and mythical heroines whose drama originates from philia towards oikos, Raboni appears having preferred the latter: the mother par excellence (Hecuba), the sister par excellence (Antigone), the wife par excellence (Alcestis). That it is not just a matter of chance, but of a meeting between the client and the author's interests, he was led to believe it by his letter of 2003 to Pietro Carriglio. The contribution analyzes the various stages of the meeting of Raboni with the Attic tragedy, from the translation activity to the original rewriting, always with interest to ethically 'strong' female characters.