On Monday, January 6, at 18.30:24 p.m., the Nest Theater stage will host the concert Il Natale della Resistenza – Affabulazione pastorale per il Divino Avvento by Mariano Bauduin and Mimmo Napolitano. The show, sponsored by the National Association of Italian Partisans, tells the story of the world of courtly legends, popular fantasies, religious magic spells, and ancient sounds that evoke the magical time between December 6 and January XNUMX, a time when the dead mingle with the living and diabolical creatures roam the world with angels and saints, through the performance of a wide range of popular songs. The traditional Christmas songs are counterpointed by political songs that are examples of the musical expressiveness of the people captured in their most significant moments: work, leisure, entertainment, ritual, love, war, political and social protest.
“The program proposes the heritage of a culture that presents itself with an autonomous physiognomy with respect to the dominant culture, in relation to the formal transformations that occur and the need to adapt to different living conditions – explains the director and manager of the Beggars' Theatre Mariano Bauduin – For this reason the traditional concept of folklore cannot but transform itself into an attitude towards the expressiveness of the popular world, understood as the subject and protagonist of its own story that finds in singing one of the most valid forms of expression, rooted in musical ways that are strongly characterized with respect to regional origins. Proposing a show of songs is never easy, especially when the songs are of popular origin, where the erroneous attribute of “folklore” is always ambiguous. In this sense, our singing becomes the memorable object of a revolution, a revolution of the identity that wants or must rebel, the revolution of a soul that only by rebelling can hope to overturn a condition, a social state, a violence”.
On stage with the reciting voice Maria Luisa Javarone, Gaetano Amore, Armando Aragione, Diletta Bonè Acanfora, Francesca Fedeli, Maurizio Graziano, Matteo Mauriello, Barbara Milizia, Maria Livia Passaretta, Pasquale Presutti and the Choir for San Giovanni, a permanent vocal laboratory group curated by Mariano Bauduin.
Over the past four years, the Vocal Group of “Gli Alberi di Canto Teatro” directed by Mariano Bauduin has created a permanent laboratory, forming a choir made up of elderly women, men and boys with whom work on vocality has been started. This has made it possible to create the “Corale per San Giovanni”, an added element to the theatrical and vocal structure of the shows of the “Beggars' Theatre – Il Teatro dei Mendicanti”.
“The permanent laboratory is based on the principle of integrating our presence as artists in the territory of San Giovanni a Teduccio where the “Beggars' Theatre-Teatro dei mendicanti” is located – Bauduin underlines – the Choir represents for me and my collaborators the most important aspect of our entire artistic and social project. I say aspect, because being a choir made up of extremely heterogeneous individuals and with such different levels, both anagraphically and culturally, it would be wrong to dwell on the individuality of each of them. The strength of this group is in having found in singing the most authentic form of unity and collective identity”.
Ph. Salvatore Pastore
EDITORIAL TEAM
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