Agenda

"This woman is ill, this woman is alone, her husband dead, her son in prison— pray for me.” On the 60th anniversary of her death, Scenari DiVersi dedicates its third event to the tense and resonant voice of Anna Akhmatova, the Russian poet who became a symbol of resistance to Stalinism. Akhmatova’s poetry invites us into a world shaped by pain—pain born from the brutal intrusion of History into the poet’s private life. The arrests of her husband Nikolai, and above all of her son Lev during the years of the Stalinist Great Terror, were not merely personal tragedies, but wounds shared by thousands of wives and mothers. It was in the endless waits outside the prisons of Leningrad, amid enforced silence and daily terror, that poetic language was transformed into a powerful space of testimony. Voices and Silence evokes Akhmatova’s experience of suffering as it took form in Requiem. A voice that becomes memory – for herself and for the other women condemned to share the same anguished vigil of grief – resounds beyond its historical moment, remaining clear and necessary for all those who found in it a voice against enforced silence. The event is part of Scenari DiVersi, a student-led project that brings poetry to the stage through theatrical events combining interpretation and storytelling. With the support of ESU Venezia, from November 2025 to March 2026 students from the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies will present a series of monthly events hosted at Teatro Ca’ Foscari Santa Marta, dedicated to poets and authors from different linguistic traditions.

Scientific coordinator for this event:
prof. Alessandro Farsetti