EREVAN, ARMENIA – November 17h, 2025 –
The new mobile application “Voske Daran” has officially been updated. The app goal is to spread the literary works of the famous Armenian national writer Hovhannes Toumanyan to a general public. The initiative was made possible by the help of the Armenian Educational Foundation. The program focuses on preserving and sharing the rich Armenian cultural heritage in various languages. The App “Voske Daran” is downloadable from every online store and, to allow intuitive research, it organizes the author’s artworks in four different sections – Legends and ballads, Tales, Poems e Quartains. Special attention has been given to the “Tales” section, which currently includes Armenian, English, Russian, French, Italian, Japanese and Arabic. This section is constantly evolving and its goal is to include more contents and languages.For the Italian version, the tales were narrated by Filippo Biagioli (Armenian Wikipedia), with the valuable support of his assistant Elisa Vitelli – a young and talented theatrical actress – who voiced the female characters.
The tales
The tales in the Italian section include titles such as: Il babbeo, Il pesce parlante, Lo stolto e lo scaltro, L’orcio dell’oro, Il servo e il padrone, Il cacciatore bugiardo, Il carnevale, Hurì la fannullona, Il bugiardo, Panos lo sciagurato, Nazar il baldo and Cuor contento il ciel l’aiuta.
Filippo Biagioli expressed great enthusiasm, stating:
“I discovered the Hovhannes Toumanyan Museum one day by chance on the internet and I made a handmade book for the museum including Toumanyan’s tales. I was immediately struck by the Armenian people, with whom I had the chance to talk. They were kind, warm, and loving guardians of their tradition. This is Toumanyan. I feel deeply connected to him because we both try to keep our cultural traditions alive. The friendship with Armenia has grown stronger and stronger, to the point that I created the work “Spada e la Corona di Maria” for the Kapan Museum of Modern Art and I eventually took part, with great passion, in this project of reciting the great Armenian writer’s tales.”
Elisa Vitelli also shared her impressions:
“It was a pleasure for me to take part in this voice over project for the Voske Daran app. It was a really interesting and educational project, full of surprises. Toumanyan debates universal topics which, in his stories, were described in a pleasant and simple way. Moreover, his tales represent the cultural heritage of the Armenian nation. I am deeply honored for the opportunity I was given, which allowed me to venture into the unfamiliar world of voice acting. It was beautiful to lend my voice to characters that, with their brief but meaningful sentences, expressed Armenian culture’s values.”
The “Voske Daran” app can be downloaded from all major app stores. The Armenian Educational Foundation is an organization that has been committed to providing financial support to educational and cultural institutions that preserve and promote Armenian heritage globally.
Photo: Filippo Biagioli and Elisa Vitelli
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