On Friday, Jan. 20, and Saturday, Jan. 21, Italian contemporary theatre company Teatro delle Albe will perform “fedeli d’Amore,” or “Love’s Faithful,” at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The company comes at the invitation of both Penn Live Arts and the Center for Italian Studies collaborating with the Italian Studies section of the Department of Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies.

The performance, featuring Ermanna Montanari and the music by Luigi Ceccarelli, is an extension of the 2021 anniversary of Dante’s death, and a direct result of a visit from the theater company to Penn in February 2019. Company founders Marco Martinelli and Montanari visited to conduct workshops with students and explain their three-year, three-part staging of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” in Ravenna, Italy, organized in the parts of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.