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the debut show of Roberto De Simone:

Roberto De Simone

The theatrical event at the Mercadante

the show debut of Roberto De Simone:
close its skirmish with Naples?

"The Vommaro to a duel" is the show of the festival which has been discussed more. And not just in Naples

NAPLES - It's definitely the show of the festival which has been discussed more. In Naples, certainly, but not all. Why 'The Vommaro a duel' which debuts tonight at the Mercadante 21 (Saturday replication), is an absolute novelty of Roberto De Simone, who several times over the past decade did not agree with the choices of the political-cultural Naples. His return to the scene, and particularly at a desired event from the field against whom he often contended, is therefore an event for which there is great expectation within and outside the city. And tonight, the first, is also expected the governor Antonio Bassolino. "This work - he explains - so look to our tradition, but in a completely contemporary.

"The Vommaro a duel"

not therefore a pleasure mannered, but experiment on different aspects of our traditional music, theatrical and literary. " The exhibition comes from a combination of comedy Pasquale Starace "The Vommaro" of 1742, and de "The comic duel," a farce with music by Giovanni Paisiello 1774. "In the first text - continued De Simone - who attributed to Benedetto Croce Starace, the theme is empowerment of the female world of that time. While the booklet 'Duel', written by Giambattista Lorenzi, Betty and tells her suitor Don polychronic, living following the fashion and the French custom, very fashionable in the 700. " The play proceeds on two tracks, and acted scenes between musical fragments of comic opera, alternating opera singers as Filippo Morace (Don Simon) Daliotti Clemente (mouse), Alessandro Spina (Don polychronic), Francesco Marseille (Leandro), Francesca Russo Ermolli (Bettina), Monica Pods (Clarice) and Filomena International Version (Violetta) , vocalists and actors, including Franco Javarone (Don Trebuzio) Close Henry (Nora), Angela Pagano (Fenizia), Renata Fusco (Rina) and Antonella Morea (Dianella).

The conductor is Renato Piemontese . "Among the songs - De Simone explains - there are also some arias on texts written by me traditional, folksy expression of a world of 700, between writing and orality, literature and the rural world. " The language of the show, in fact, is a balance between baroque and literary vernacular, used as a phonetic or rhythmic material. "It's a hybrid - concludes the author - on the language, increasingly neglected in favor of the content. But the theater can be ethical, moral, political, but to remain above the theater, or risk death. And the confirmation is that Shakespeare is timeless, with its dramatic content. The theater should never become news. "

Stefano Stefano

27 giugno 2008