Starting Friday, June 28, the Music section of the 12th edition of the NTFI, directed by Ruggero Cappuccio, kicks off. Twelve performances will take place in various venues throughout Naples and other locations throughout the region. The program kicks off with music by Roberto De Simone, who orchestrated three concerts in Casamarciano, Naples, and Pietrelcina. These performances alternate with a rich program of events, featuring, among others, Raffaello Converso, the small orchestra Neaco', Carlo Morelli, the Choir of the City of Naples and M'Barka Ben Taleb, Avion Travel, Giuseppe Vessicchio, Angelo Smimmo, Capone & BungtBangt, and the Solis String Quartet with Iaia Forte, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, the ensemble Le Mani Avanti, Enzo Mirone's project, and a special performance with Alice. The program will open on June 28th (9:00 PM) with the world premiere of "Songs and Sounds of Forgetfulness" by Raffaello Converso and orchestrations by Roberto De Simone at the Cloister of the Badiale Santa Maria del Plesco Complex in Casamarciano. This anthological and musical project ranges from 16th-century villanelles of "gentle Naples," excellent arias from Opera buffa, and much more – a NTFI performance for the 2019 Naples Universiade (tickets can be purchased at the General Affairs Office/Secretariat of the Municipality of Casamarciano; for information: +39 3427519203; email: segreteria@comune.casamarciano.it). A repeat performance will be held in Naples at the Church of Santa Maria della Colonna on July 7th at 9:00 PM.
Roberto De Simone's orchestrations will also be the protagonists of Travestimenti spirituali: da Bella Ciao a Padre Pio by Raffaello Converso, scheduled for July 13 at 21.00:XNUMX pm at the Teatro Naturale in Pietrelcina. The work is the result of research conducted by De Simone together with the anthropologist Annabella Rossi at the end of the 60s, when it was discovered that at the Sanctuary of San Michele del Gargano there were some verses of a Lauda for Padre Pio and for the Archangel Michael, whose melody resembled the well-known "partisan song" performed at the end of the Second World War and linked to a traditional Jewish song discovered in America in 1919, which in turn referred to a song composed in memory of Jewish stokers who perished in the sinking of the famous transatlantic liner Titanic. On June 30th at 21.00:XNUMX pm, the unmistakable and evocative Amalfi Cathedral will be the backdrop to the musical project, Il viaggio di Neacò. Fairy tale in concert form by Antonio Carluccio, Luigi Carbone, Giovanni Imparato and Aldo Perris. The show tells the story of a journey undertaken by a Neapolitan percussionist who leaves his family to travel the world: a journey in which he brings a fragment of his Naples, contaminating it with the musical styles of each country he visits. Voices of the Mediterranean is the title of the concert taking place at the Cortile d'Onore of Palazzo Reale on July 4th at 22.00:XNUMX pm, with arrangements and musical direction by Carlo Morelli, the Choir of the City of Naples and M'Barka Ben Taleb. A fantastic journey from classical Neapolitan song to Neapolitan soul, from the nuances of villanelle to Mediterranean blues. Maestro Morelli's arrangements enhance and color the musical program with modern pop and soul sounds, presenting reworkings of timeless songs, such as Tammurriata nera, Luna rossa, Tu vuò fa' l'americano. A performance that speaks of Naples through the notes of traditional authors, but also enhances the deep cultural and musical connection between Tunisia and the Neapolitan capital. The show is scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Napoli 2019. On July 7th at 22.00 pm in the Cortile d'Onore of the Royal Palace of Naples, there will be the performance of V Viaggio barocco, subject, choreography and direction by Angelo Smimmo, with Giorgia Cinciripi (soprano), Luciano Di Pasquale (baritone), Manuela Formichella (soprano) Damien Pass (bass), with the participation of Fernando Montaño (soloist dancer of the Royal Ballet Covent Garden of London) and with the Orchestra Da Camera Irpina conducted by Piergiorgio Del Nunzio. V Baroque Journey is a performance that combines opera, dance and theatre, depicting the adventures of two Western couples from different social backgrounds but with similar problems, who mirror the crisis between the two hemispheres of our planet. Through Neapolitan opera buffa and Venetian opera seria, he explores the concept of emigration of the body and soul, of those who, out of necessity or dream, seek a way out. Show scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Naples 2019. Music is also taking place in the province of Caserta: Avion Travel – Privé is scheduled for July 7 at 21.00:XNUMX pm. The voices of Peppe Servillo and Avion Travel will resonate in the panoramic location of the Belvedere di San Leucio. Privé is the album made fifteen years after their last album. A collection faithful to the spirit of independent production and the atmospheres of the trilogy composed of Bellosguardo, Opplà, Finalmente Fiori, born after having rebuilt the operational staff of their beginnings, with Mario Tronco in the role of artistic producer and supervisor, as well as arranger and musician. Show scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Naples 2019. On July 8th in Naples at 21.30:XNUMX pm, in the Courtyard of Honor of the Royal Palace, a special appointment with Alice who, accompanied by the piano of Carlo Guaitoli and the guitar of Antonello D'Urso, presents her Viaggio in Italia, in which she performs songs by Franco Battiato, Juri Camisasca, Lucio Dalla, Fabrizio De Andrè, Francesco De Gregori, Mino Di Martino, Ivano Fossati, Francesco Guccini, Giorgio Gaber, Claudio Rocchi, Giuni Russo and Alice. The show is scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Napoli 2019. Still in Naples, in the Cortile d'Onore of Palazzo Reale, on July 10th at 22.00 pm, Strativari by Capone & BungtBangt and Solis String Quartet will be performed with the reciting voice of Iaia Forte, directed by Raffaele Di Florio, subject and text by Stefano Valanzuolo. On stage the ensemble formed by Maurizio Capone (voice, electric broom, percussion instruments), Alessandro Paradiso (bridge bass, scatolophon, percussion instruments), Vincenzo Falco (percussion instruments, tubolophon), Salvatore Zannella (percussion instruments, percussion instruments), together with the Solis String Quartet with Vincenzo Di Donna (violin), Luigi De Maio (violins), Gerardo Morrone (viola), and Antonio Di Francia (cello). Two musical groups very different in vocation and history collaborate, with the precious theatrical complicity of Iaia Forte, to create a new show that, alternating quotes with original contributions, celebrates the unusual image of a multifaceted Naples. Seen from above, the city seems like one, but to the traveler who chooses to descend into its bowels, to cross it, Naples reveals the many layers that compose it, linked in a web of colors, smells and sounds. The show is scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Napoli 2019. In the splendid location of the Natural Theatre of Pietrelcina, on July 11th at 21.00 pm, Maestro Giuseppe Vessicchio will be our guest, with his Communio pro anima, an oratorio for three voices, 11 solo instruments, mixed choir and orchestra, which features the Coro Exultate Deo, the Solisti del Sesto Armonico and the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra. Inspired by the spiritual theme of the mystery of the soul, it uses a polyphonic technique that maestro Vessicchio has named “Natural-Armonic Music” (MAN). With Giacinta Nicotra (soprano), Salvatore Cordella (tenor), Exultate Deo choir, the soloists of the Sesto Armonico and the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Pasquale Valerio. In the Avellino area, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio will be in concert at the Abbazia di Loreto in Mercogliano, on July 12 (21.00:XNUMX pm), with L'Isola di legno, the result of seventeen years of work and a snapshot of the group's musical journey through the song form. The stories narrated are those that the artists told each other during the endless hours of travel on national and international tours. The show is scheduled by NTFI for the Universiade Napoli 2019. Tuesday is the title of the concert by the ensemble Le Mani Avanti, scheduled at the Teatro Trianon-Viviani on July 13 at 22.00:XNUMX pm, with artistic direction, arrangements and choir direction by Gabriele D'Angelo (special guest Dario Sansone from Foja). Le Mani Avanti is a proudly and loudly pop a cappella choir. Born in 2014 as a choral laboratory directed by Gabriele D'Angelo (Gabriele Dorme Poco; Anonima Armonisti, Occhi Chiusi In Mare Aperto), between 2015 and 2016 it took the form of a real choir with the sudden increase in the ensemble, which currently consists of approximately 35 members. The repertoire ranges from pop, soul and rock: from Michael Jackson to Florence and the Machine, from Sia to Frank Sinatra, from Ivano Fossati to Stevie Wonder. The music section of the 2019 Naples Theatre Festival will close on July 14 at the Galeria Toledo (20.00:XNUMX pm), with Ho stretto i pugni e sono nato… Poemetto in musica e video fragmenti per automazioni elettromechaniche e Giocattoli di Risparmio, a project by Enzo Mirone (also curator of the texts, music and videos), with Marco Di Palo, Massimiliano Sacchi and Angelo Cavaliere. Talking toys, toy (and non-toy) musical instruments, and musical machines conceived, designed, built, and automated through electronic and mechanical engineering represent the "characters," the orchestration of whose voices/actions triggers and supports the narrative that unfolds across different sensory levels.
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