Tomorrow evening, the Napoli Teatro Festival's calendar features the highly anticipated event featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, unanimously considered one of the greatest dancers of all time, who offers a moving journey through the complex compositions of his friend and poet Joseph Brodsky, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who died in 1996. The performance has been named to symbolize the friendship between two Russian exiles who met in the United States, recognizing in what was a second homeland for both those "elective affinities" that are now reinterpreted under the direction of Latvian director Alvis Hermanis of the New Riga Theatre. What takes place tomorrow evening at the Teatro Politeama is one of the flagship shows of the eleventh edition of the festival. Napoli Teatro Festival directed by Ruggero Cappuccio, a world premiere in Italy. The show takes place in a dilapidated and dusty place, surrounded by glass, a now abandoned “winter garden” of the Belle Époque, an ideal image of a world that no longer exists and exists only in memory and art. Performed in Russian, with Italian surtitles in the translation by Matteo Campagnoli, Baryshnikov recites a selection of the touching and eloquent works of his long-time friend. Brodsky/Baryshnikov is the meeting of two legends: the dancer who in 1974 chose to become principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre in New York and the poet who, expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, after a very short period in Vienna, chose this city as his new home. The show premiered on October 15, 2015 in Latvia, at the New Riga Theatre in Riga, which co-produced it with Baryshnikov Productions, under the general direction of Huong Hoang.
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