Glauco Mauri, master of theater, also loved by cinema, has died
Mourning in the world of cinema and of theater: he died late yesterday evening in Rome Glauco Mauri, doyen of the Italian stage. He would have turned 94 on October 1st. The news of his disappearance, anticipated by Messenger, is confirmed by the historic company Mauri Sturnofounded by the great actor and director in 1961 with Roberto Sturno, who died in 2023. Born in Pesaro in 1930, interpreter of Shakespeare, Molière, Pirandello, Dostoevsky, Goldoniwith courage and passion Mauri was on stage for seventy years: he was expected from 26 to 29 September at Vascello di Roma with the show De Profundis, by Oscar Wildecanceled due to the actor’s indisposition.
Who was Glauco Mauri, actor and director who died in Rome
As told by theHandle, which reconstructs the life of Glauco Mauri, a fifteen years faces his first leading role, with an amateur company from his city. In 1949 he entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome directed by Silvio D’Amico. Among his teachers: Orazio Costa, Wanda Capodaglio, Sergio Tofano, Mario Pelosini. He made his professional debut in 1953 in Shakespeare’s Macbeth directed by Orazio Costa. In the same year he was Sir Tobias in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night directed by Renato Castellani, and, directed by André Barsaq, achieved great personal success in the role of Smerdjakov in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, with Memo Benassi, Lilla Brignone, Gianni Santuccio and Enrico Maria Salerno. In the 1961 founded with Valeria Moriconi, Franco Enriquez, Emanuele Luzzati, to whom Mario Scaccia would later join, the Compagnia dei Quattro, an artistic group that has represented an innovative and significant force in the Italian theater panorama, with which it brings Shakespeare, Beckett, Pasolini to the stage , Marlowe-Brecht, Del Buono, Codignola, Garcia Lorca.
From the 1965after the dissolution of the Company, he worked mainly for the Stabili di Torino, Genova, Bologna, and collaborated with the major Italian directors: Luigi Squarzina, Giorgio Strehler, Mario Missiroli, Aldo Trionfo to name just a few. Directed by Luca Ronconi (1972) he is the protagonist in Aeschylus’ Oresteia at the Bitef in Belgrade, at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Venice Biennale.
Between the his most beloved authors, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Beckett. In 1981 he founded the Glauco Mauri Company with Roberto Sturno, which later became Mauri-Sturno. Since his professional debut, he has participated in all theater seasons, acting several times in classical shows at the Greek Theater of Syracuse, at the Roman Theater of Verona, and then at the Spoleto, Benevento and Asti Festivals. In his long career, he also appeared in films such as China is nearby by Marco Bellocchio (1967), The Constance of Reason by Pasquale Festa Campanile (1964), The Guest by Liliana Cavani (1971), Deep Red by Dario Argento (1975 ), Ecce Bombo by Nanni Moretti (1978). On TV he is among the protagonists of the golden age of Rai dramas, such as Dostoevsky’s Demons and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks.
It comes out in December 2023 “Duse’s tears. Portrait of an artist as an old man“, the autobiography of Glauco Mauri, in which he talks about his long and unparalleled career as an actor with lightness and sincerity: “I would like it to be clear that I don’t use life to talk about myself but I use myself to talk about life. I am over ninety years old and I have always tried to keep the antennas of my mind and heart very vibrant, to try to understand something of the great adventure of living. At fifteen I climbed onto a stage for the first time, then for seventy-two I dedicated my life to the theatre. Lights and shadows, successes and failures and I must confess that the latter were more useful to me.”
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