Fiorenza

About the show

Set in Florence in 1492, Thomas Mann’s play makes Fiorenza an allegory of the city and the mistress of the dying Lorenzo de’ Medici. The preacher Girolamo Savonarola, who had once courted and been rejected by her, now preaches asceticism; Fiorenza confronts Lorenzo with her inability to escape Savonarola’s influence, while Lorenzo recognizes the religious leader as his equal.