Tosca and the Women: Franca Valeri

It has been a long, magnificent career for Franca Valeri, actress.

A special high-mark was when she established, together with Alberto Bonucci and Vittorio Caprioli, the memorable company at the Teatro dei Gobbi. This occasion proved to be one of the most lively, creative and determinative moments of Italian theater of the second half of the 20th Century.

Many will always link the unforgettable character of Signorina Snob to Franca Valeri - she performed this role in the theater, on the radio, on TV and on film. This character has come to represent Italian customs, the way Italian men and women think of and see themselves.

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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