I remember with Manuelita Baylon 17 theater

La Terrazza di Michelangelo is pleased to make public, putting it online freely, the full video made with 17 clips from various theatrical works interpreted from the nineties to 2011 Manuelita by actress Florentine Baylon, who died prematurely in March 2014.

The video was screened for the first time on Saturday 4 October 2014 the Theatre of basket, in Florence, at an event organized to remember that there Manuelita starred several times, but above all there kept for decades, his theatrical lessons, forming new generations of actors and actresses, many of which still treading the scenes.

“He has left a great woman – Manuelita Baylon said, recalling last 2 March, The Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella - Manuelita Baylon, has given a lot to the Florentine theater, Tuscany and not only. Actress highly appreciated by audiences and critics, and a great connoisseur of Florentine traditions, it is thanks to her that the city was founded the first school of theater in the vernacular ".

The actress has gone off at the age of 74 years in the late evening of Saturday, 1 March, following a serious illness that has moved away from a few months from the stage and the public commitments.

Manuelita Baylon, in his long career has been so loved by the public.

His story, with a long resume, binds to the Florentine theater, and its most important theaters, and to national production of the first floor.

Manuelita began his career as a young girl, with comedian Raphael Certini.

In the company of Dory Cei, where he was a character actress young and young, met Remo Masini, with whom he shared, as wife, the rest of life.

In the nineties he founded the Theatre of basket, with the director Oreste Pelagatti, the first school of theater in the vernacular in Florence, whose courses has continued until December 2013, along with his Remo.

Honorary fellow of the Florentine traditions, Manuelita was divided, in recent years, between theater engaged, comedies of Italian and foreign authors and the rediscovery of the texts of the noble Florentine vernacular.

Shy personality and loving scene Manuelita Baylon, even courted by the cinema, has always refused important roles on the big and small screen, although occasionally it is granted some "escapade".

Selection by the husband, l’attore Remo Masini – who starred in several of the 17 works chosen in memory of Manuelita – mounting by Claudio Cirri.

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Frank Mariani

By the number 34 – The Year of 8/10/2014