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The Fondazione Teatro Donizetti aims to promote a strong civic sense that aims to put the need for education in theatrical culture at the center along with quality. This mission must be combined with the goal of reaching ever new audiences, particularly young people, to whom it gives tools for reading the theatrical experience.

The Donizetti Theater Foundation is pleased to present educational projects related to the Prose Season and Other Paths 2026-2027 aimed at young high school audiences. This section has always stood out for the care given to educational projects aimed at schools, young people and its own audience.

THE SEASON AT A SUBSIDIZED PRICE

TICKETS

The Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, as every year, offers schools in the City and Province of Bergamo the opportunity to make a discounted reservation for purchasing tickets to evening performances included in the Prose Season and Other Paths program.

PROSA at the Donizetti Theater
STALLS AND BOXES € 16.00
BALCONY AND NUMBERS OF 1st AND 2ndGALLERY € 11.00

OTHER EXHIBITIONS
ALL EXHIBITIONS €11.00
, with the exception of “Lebensraum” and “L’angelo del focolare” €16 .00

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Please note in particular that this year, as well , you can purchase discounted season tickets for the “ALTRI PERCORSI” season at a price of €70.00, and for the STAGIONE DI PROSA season at €90.00 in the 2nd-sector stalls or €54.00 in numbered seats in the 1st gallery or balcony, and in numbered seats in the 2nd gallery.

An opportunity this, offered to both classes and individual students, for them to begin a journey that familiarizes them with the world of theater.

Students who subscribe to the Altri Percorsi Season will have the opportunity to participate in some post-show meetings with actors and directors of the plays on the bill and will be accompanied in their viewing by Maria Grazia Panigada, Director of the Season.

CONVENTION WITH ATB

For performances at the Teatro Sociale, the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, in collaboration with ATB, in order to make it easier to get to the performance venue, offers users free access to ATB urban public transportation (including funicular), exclusively on the service lines, to and from Città Alta on performance days, starting 2 hours before the start of the performance and up to 1 hour after leaving the theater.

MEETINGS IN SCHOOLS

Project around the play The other side
Prose Season – Donizetti Theatre
THE PROJECT
We have developed so many strategies to defend our peace of mind… What if the question was not how to hide from conflict, but rather how to learn to manage it? How do we build peace without hoping that, simply, it will happen? Being peaceful and being at peace are two conditions that cannot coexist in our world; living together is exhausting.
Levana and Atom, the two elderly protagonists of The Other Side, inhabit – literally – the conflict. They live on a war boundary, collecting and burying corpses from both sides. When peace is declared, a guard breaks through their cabin and draws a physical boundary across the room: the bed becomes a border zone, the bathroom belongs to one state, the kitchen to the other. The border then becomes an existential theme not so much in the struggle to exercise a right to property, but as a place that requires exchange, proposals and renunciations in order to continue to exist and – somehow – to love each other. A place that requires intelligence and humanity to stay there, seeking life and not death.
The proposition we are immersed in is one: put up walls, separate, isolate. At best: flee. We don’t know how to put up the boundaries, we don’t have the strength to deal with conflicts, and things end up going unbridled. Irony and the pleasure of play are the keystone and tools of the job.Levana and Atom are not tragic heroes. They are two stubborn old men who argue, negotiate, poke each other and love each other-what better solution than fun do we have?
What can be done, then? What if we discovered that borders are possibilities for construction instead of exclusion? Certainly not to get used to war. On the contrary: to rediscover that peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to manage it. That peace is an exercise, a practice. Making peace is more tiring than making war, but it is worth it in the end.
The meetings will be taught by Erica Nava and Yesenia Vitenko.
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours To be agreed with faculty
(between February and March 2027)		 school free max 1 class per meeting
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with the company 2 hours April 15, 2027, 3 p.m. Donizetti Theater free reserved for classes participating in the project
(subject to availability)
The tour concludes with a viewing of the show The Other Side, on stage from April 10 to 18, 2027 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from € 11.00 to € 16.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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Project around the show Fire was the cure
Season of Other Paths – Social Theater
THE PROJECT
To accompany girls and boys to the viewing of the play, the workshop delves into reading the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury in order to lead the class to question the symbolic meaning of “burning books.” Fahrenheit‘s science fiction, imagining a society in which critical sense is eliminated and the view of the world restricted to one’s present so that the link with the past is erased, becomes a historical and civic reflection on being a community.
Full reading of the novel is mandatory for the workshop to take place.
The two-hour workshop will consist of three parts:
– Participatory presentation of the novel with the class
An Isrec staff member will hold the thread of a dialogue in which girls and boys will take the floor. This will be an exercise to share knowledge, themes and curiosities about the book.
– Group work
The class will be divided into groups and each group will be given an excerpt from the book to reflect on, of which girls and boys should highlight the most significant lines and summarize them in one word.
– Construction of a concept map
Each group will be asked to connect the theme extracted from the quotation to both the past and the present, trying to search their own memory for something they have studied and to search their own experience for something that everyone is experiencing personally or that we are experiencing as a collective. Not all the boxes will be filled in, but the discussion among the groups, led by Isrec staff members, will help to drop the themes raised by the book into each person’s schooling and life experience.
The goal of the workshop is an active reading of the book, to rediscover memory as a connection between experiences and knowledge, deposited in books, as a possibility to make our imagery and sensibility more elastic and less stereotypical.
The meetings will be held by Isrec Bergamo
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours first half of February 2027 school free max 1 class per meeting
PERFORMANCE and MEETING DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with the company 90 minutes performance
+ meeting afterwards		 February 17 and 18, 2027
from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.		 Social Theater €11.00 all classes present at the performance
The journey concludes with a viewing of the show Fire was the cure, staged on Feb. 17 and 18, 2027 at the Social Theater.
Tickets € 11.00 | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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Project around the show Eumenides. All, all of the father’s I am
Season of Other Pathways – Social Theater
THE PROJECT
Eumenides. All all of the father’s I am by ATIR and directed by Serena Sinigaglia, is inspired by Eumenides, the last tragedy of theOresteia by Aeschylus, in which the passage from an archaic justice, embodied by the Furies – monstrous, ancient beings, “old girls” dominated by the need for revenge and the sacredness of blood ties – to a new justice, based on order, law and the institution of the court, is recounted.
It is the clash between two principles, the feminine and the masculine, present in every human being: two forces in perpetual conflict, on whose unstable balance our societies are still founded today.
Eumenides stages the first courtroom in Western history. At the center of the trial is Orestes, little more than a boy, accused of matricide. Orestes represents the fragility of the human being, his fear, his survival instinct. He cannot really take responsibility for his actions: he only seeks to save himself.
The birth of democracy thus coincides with an ambiguous and deeply political act: the acquittal of a matricide and the establishment of a new patriarchal order, which replaces the logic of blood with that of law and power.
During meetings with students we will address the big questions that run through the text, looking at its relevance and political force. We will try to understand why this tragedy continues to speak to us today and try to approach it through theatrical play and improvisation.
How is anger controlled? What happens when the desire for revenge is repressed? What do we give up in the name of order and peace? What force is silenced and where does it continue to manifest? What does it mean to transform from Erinyes to Eumenides?
The workshop aims to offer students a space for reflection and direct experience, in which theater becomes a tool for interrogating the present through one of the foundational texts of our culture.
The meetings will be held by. Matilde Facheris, actress of the show
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours between March and April 2027 school free max 1 class per meeting
The tour concludes with a viewing of the show Eumenides. All, all of the father’s I am , staged on April 22 and 23, 2027 at the Social Theater.
Tickets € 11.00 | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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Project around the play Hamlet
Season of Prose – Donizetti Theatre
THE PROJECT
To be or not to be “sick” of Shakespeare today? Tight tights, stern gaze, set voice and skull in hand: Shakespeare’sHamlet is not only probably the Bard’s most famous and quoted play, but a true symbol (or stereotype?) of his entire output. Between film transpositions of all kinds and more or less faithful staging, the “sacred text” of English theater is still an ideal starting point for discovering themes and languages of the Elizabethan stage and its playwright par excellence. More: the anxieties, doubts, but also the great moral strength of the Prince of Denmark, are often considered a faithful mirror of a timeless youth, in which every student will inevitably end up finding himself. The meeting with operator Stefano Benedetti, an expert on Shakespearean dramaturgy, will therefore be a journey of discovery, contextualization and actualization of the text and its representations, from the days of the Globe Theatre to Leonardo Lidi’s surreal and visionary interpretation staged at the Donizetti Theatre. Moments of critical analysis, scenic reading and socio-historical framework will accompany the classes beyond all clichés about William Shakespeare, to fully immerse themselves in a founding drama of live performance, capable of renewing itself through the centuries, without ever losing its identity and storytelling power.
The meetings will be held by Stefano Benedetti
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours between April and May 2027 school free max 1 class per meeting
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with the company 2 hours May 13, 2027, 3 p.m. Donizetti Theater free reserved for classes participating in the project
(subject to availability)
The tour concludes with a viewing of the play Hamlet, on stage from May 8 to 16, 2027 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from € 11.00 to € 16.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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Project around the play Hamlet
Season of Prose – Donizetti Theatre
THE PROJECT
To be or not to be. We have all thought about it at least once, sitting on the bed or on a bench in the park. Yet standing next to those who think this now, at 14, 15, 16, is difficult. We tell ourselves it’s just the confusion of adolescence, that we all go through it and we all (almost) survived. But what happens when embodying those same anxieties is the Prince of Denmark?
Hamlet is a son, he is in love, he is alone. Two opposing and devastating forces animate him: love and the desire for revenge. Is it at once doubt and fundamentalism, to be willing to do anything to…? As long as doubt inhabits him he remains human – he questions, hesitates, suffers. But as soon as he is certain of the truth all that thinking takes away, giving way to blind action. It is he alone who knows, he alone who sees what others ignore: loneliness radicalizes him. Hamlet turns into a war machine. The love that moves him – for his father, for Ophelia, for a justice he feels is his – becomes in time indistinguishable from revenge. In the end they all die. He who stops doubting stops being free. Doubt is not weakness: it is the only chance we have to remain human.
The meetings will be held by Lucia Limonta
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours between April and May 2027 school free max 1 class per meeting
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with the company 2 hours May 13, 2027, 3 p.m. Donizetti Theater free reserved for classes participating in the project
(subject to availability)
The tour concludes with a viewing of the play Hamlet, on stage from May 8 to 16, 2027 at the Donizetti Theater.
Tickets from € 11.00 to € 16.00 depending on the sector chosen | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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IN-DEPTH PATHS

Project around the show Green Days
Season of Other Paths – Social Theater
THE PROJECT
In the history of mankind, never have as many generations coexisted as those who inhabit the planet today: never have we been so many, never have we been so old.
Often, when we talk about the climate crisis, we think with intention about the future: about the adults we will be, the children we (won’t) have, what world will remain in the hands of those who remain. Yet, sometimes the feeling is that more than a forward-looking talk, it is an attempt to postpone the change a little further, to pass the potato – the Earth – hot potato to someone else: because in the present there are more important things to think about, because environmentalism is something you learn as a child and forget as an adult.
It is no coincidence that Green Days is the story of two generations comparing: Marco and Emma, father and daughter, Millenial and Gen Z. On one side an adult with a precarious life, on the other a girl with a passion for ecology: at the center is a job offer for a fossil company that will change their lives. The ideological conflict between an environmentalist and a realist turns into that between daughter and father, bringing with it contradictions, accusations, unspoken words, and misunderstandings. The play then becomes an opportunity to explore questions often central to the debate around the climate crisis: what space of responsibility do individual choices have in collective fates? How many complexities and interconnections are linked to the climate crisis? What are the reasons for the need for radical activism? How much does the desire to save the world burn and how easily can it be extinguished when the prevailing feeling is that there is no alternative, that a choice is not really possible? And it is from these and other questions that we would like to start.
Resuming the work started in the last two years around The Trials and Ilva Football Club, a path is proposed to students and students that, starting from the themes at the center of Green Days, develops a shared reflection through different stages of in-depth analysis and activation, to stimulate the development of greater awareness and a critical spirit towards the social and environmental issues addressed.
In the first class meeting, starting with references to current events and the insights offered by the form and content of the play, an initial activity will be proposed in preparation for the viewing of Green Days. We will ask how this small story of family conflict and love tells us about much larger, yet very close, choices and destinies: what color is the future of our world in the shadow of the climate crisis? And we, what trace can and will we leave on the canvas?
The experience will then continue with an activity in collaboration with a local entity engaged in environmental protection, from social gardens, to entities dealing with circular economy or sustainable agriculture. Projects will be proposed as close as possible to individual institutions to enable students to learn, mainly through a hands-on activity, what the area is doing to stop the climate crisis and to respect the environment and the rights of individuals.
The Viewing of the Performance Will be Followed by a Meeting with the Company, to Delve Deeper into the Process of Creating the Show Itself and Stimulate a Dialogue between Students and Artists.
The Project Will Conclude with a Meeting of all Classes Together During which the Students, Assisted by Trainers and the Artistic Director and Stimulated by Dialogue with Students from other Schools, Will Together Activate a Moment of Reflection and Re-Elaboration of the Journey Taken.
The meetings will be held by Anna Marinoni
Project in collaboration with Legambiente
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with expert 2 hours April 2027 school free max 1 class per meeting
VISIT TO AN
EXTERNAL REALITY		 DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with experts 2 hours April 2027 Area realities selected on the basis of proximity to the school free max 2 classes per exit
PERFORMANCE AND MEETING
WITH THE COMPANY		 DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with the company 65 minutes show
+ meeting with the company		 May 6, 2027
from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.		 Social Theater €11.00 all classes present at the performance
FINAL MEETING DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
with experts 2 1/2 hours May 11, 2027
from 9:30 a.m.		 Donizetti Theater free all classes in the project
The itinerary includes a viewing of the show Green Days, staged on May 6, 2027 at the Social Theater.
Tickets € 11.00 | there is one free ticket for the accompanying teacher for every 15 pupils.
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Project Related to the Performance The Angel of the Hearth
“Altri Percorsi” Season – Teatro Sociale
THE PROJECT
Schools are invited to attend an in-depth session where they will have the opportunity to learn about the experiences of staff members at CUAV La Svolta—a support center for men who have committed abuse—and of staff members at the Aiuto Donna anti-violence center, which works alongside women to raise awareness and combat gender-based violence.
Project in collaboration with the La Svolta Association and the Aiuto Donna Anti-Violence Center
MEET DURATION DATA PLACE COST PARTICIPANTS
in partnership with the La Svolta association and
, the Aiuto Donna anti-violence center		 1 hour May 4, 2027 “M. Tremaglia” Music Hall,
, Donizetti Theater		 free up to 4 classes
The program includes a performance of *L’angelo del focolare*, which will be staged on April 29 and 30, 2027, at the Teatro Sociale.
Tickets: €16.00 | One free ticket is provided for the accompanying teacher for every 15 students.
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Edited by Maria Grazia Panigada
Artistic director of the Season of Prose and Altri Percorsi.

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