featuring Italian actress Giulia Cailotto
with UC Davis lecturers in music:
   Dagenais Smiley, violin
   Susan Lamb Cook, cello
   I-Hui Chen, piano

“Ahead of their Time” is an inspirational story about Adelaide Ristori, 19th century actress and entrepreneur, as told by Italian actress Giulia Cailotto, intertwined with the music and story of 19th-century pianist and composer Clara Schumann. The stories of Adelaide Ristori and Clara Schumann were an inspiration for women of their time and continues to be an inspiration for women of all ages today.

Program

Robert Schumann: Quasi Variazioni Andantino de Clara Wieck

Clara Schumann: Trio in G Minor, op. 17

and The story of Adelaide Ristori as told by Giulia Cailotto

Free

This Shinkoskey Noon Concert is made possible with support from the Joy S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concert Endowment.

About Giulia Cailotto

Italian actress, screenwriter and trainer Giulia Cailotto specializes in theatre business and communication. A graduate of the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan and of the University of Padua, Giulia Cailotto combines professional experience in the artistic field with academic skills in the relational and psycholinguistic fields.

A professional actress since 2005, she has worked with Italian and foreign theatre companies, as well as in television. Along with her artistic activity she has developed her own and original methodology of business theatre, collaborating over the years with numerous companies and institutions on training and performance projects. Her activities range from corporate events, videos and team building to training courses — in Italian, English and Spanish — as well as the writing of specific texts on corporate theatre and film.

In 2022, she curated the project “Adelaide Ristori: the Admirable Construction of Me” sponsored by the University of Verona in which, through the biography of the great nineteenth-century Italian diva, themes of women’s empowerment and entrepreneurship are addressed. The project has taken the form of both a performance and an experiential training session, as well as a book.