Tosca and the Women: Adriana Asti

Adriana Asti has worked with Giorgio Strehler, Luchino Visconti, Luca Ronconi and Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, as well as with Susan Sontag, Alfredo Arias and Harold Pinter, and together with Vittorio Gassman and Romolo Valli. Her presence on the Italian stage has been, and is continues to be, at the first level.

She acts on the stage as she does in conceiving her own work, leading it with her own initiative. We should not forget that when in France, she performed in French, introducing a number of Italian authors, such as Natalia Ginzburg, who was inspired by her. Critics have always pointed out the intelligence in Adriana Asti's performances. It's surprisingly original how she connects her acute and educated intelligence with the sensitivity and the gift to express the psychological variety and deeply human essence of character.

Her qualities as a writer for the stage have come to light only recently, but her works already carry a literary authority in their comic and linguistic fantasy.

She has acted in more than fifty films, directed, among others, by Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Bolognini, Brass and Bunuel. Franca Valeri does have of sense of the reality and no lack of withering moralistic instinct. But she is more; she is a complete actress, who often spends all her energy without sparing anything. Her generosity as an actress, authoress, and as a shrewd director and director of lyrics, the primary passion of her life makes her a true Lady of the contemporary theater.

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