Teatro Cilea in Naples, the season begins with the first two events

TCilea Theater in Naples, begins the season with the first two events.
The 2022/2023 season of the historic Vomero theater directed by Lello Arena officially begins.
The first appointments at the Cilea Theatre are dedicated to music, narrated with: “Janis” on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the death of Janis Joplin, and played with “AVVENNE A NAPOLI passione per voce e piano” the new show by Eduardo De Crescenzo.

With a rich program consisting of 21 shows, including comedy, prose, music and dance, the 2022/2023 season of the renowned Teatro Cilea in Naples directed by Lello Arena begins. The iconic Neapolitan actor signs, for the historic Vomero hall, a review that boasts great national and international names and artists of great popularity. (here more information https://teatrocilea.it/direzione-artistica)

The artistic journey that will accompany the evenings of the Neapolitan public begins with high-profile music. The first show is the extraordinary story of the American rocker Janis Joplin, an unmistakable voice and one of the most original and unrivaled in the world rock circus. On the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of her death, director Davide del Grosso presents from 3 to 6 November (starting at 21 pm, tickets for the Gallery €11+dp and for the Platea €13+dp www.azzurroservice.net/biglietti/janis-take-another-little-piece-of-my-heart/#.Y1PnyOxByt9) “Janis – Take another little piece of my heart”. The show is created by Luca Cecchelli with the actress Marta Mungo on stage in the company of Del Grosso himself who also curated the text and videos.

Take another little piece of my heart is a journey to discover one of the greatest figures of rock and roll and still today an extraordinary reference figure for the new generations. On stage an actress and an actor evoke, in a metatheatrical dialogue, the world of Joplin through articles, intimate diary pages, letters and obviously music. The gaze is not so much historiographical as connected to the contemporary. Janis appeared in the explosive panorama of 70s music as an emblem of adolescence, capable of carrying with her both the incredible power of curiosity and expansion of youth, as well as the questions, discomfort, melancholy and risks inevitably linked to it. By dismantling the myth of excess and debauchery of the rock star with the unrivaled voice, returning it to a more human dimension, the face of a shy teenager appears, victim of the bullies of her time, of a girl in search of her own artistic and sexual identity, of a woman in contrast with the chauvinist dogmas of her time, who wants to emancipate herself, but at the same time seeks the approval of her family. A teenager of extraordinary talent who, cultivating the desire to be seen and loved by the world, runs the risk of being swallowed up both by the market and by her own excesses. A little girl blue who, in her ability to walk towards the future with uncertainty and hope, with risk and desire, seems like the avant-garde of every youth.

Tuesday 8 November (repeated on 22 November and then on 13 and 20 December starting at 21 pm, tickets Stalls € 50 + dp and Gallery € 40 + dp vivaticket.com/it/ticket/avvenne-a-napoli/193962) on stage “AVVENNE A NAPOLI passione per voce e piano” with Eduardo De Crescenzo, voice and accordion, and Julian Oliver Mazzariello on piano. Federico Vacalebre will introduce the listening.

A record, a book, a concert. These are the elements that lead Eduardo De Crescenzo, at the height of his expressive maturity, to pay homage to his cultural roots. The singer-songwriter reinterprets the classic Neapolitan song from its beginnings, around 1800, until 1950, when with the landing of the American allies jazz arrives in Italy and music changes forever. His iconic voice masterfully tackles, for the first time, 20 great classics of "a repertoire that belongs to him by DNA", as Federico Vacalebre, journalist and music critic, says in his book "Storie del canzoniere napoletano" that accompanies the publication of the album.

He searches for “the lost sound”, Eduardo, the sound that Neapolitan Song must have had in his time, before it was overwhelmed by a thousand senseless remakes, by a thousand cultural misunderstandings. Singer and performer, cultured and passionate musician and composer, he begins a work of historical and musical research. He digs into the scores, behind the scores, to grasp the stylistic intentions of a revolutionary generation of artists who invented the “song” form as it is still practiced today throughout the world, who innovated the techniques of Operatic Belcanto and marked the birth of the “interpreter” who combines singing with the ability to bring to life the verses of the great poets who wrote this repertoire. The piano is that of Julian Oliver Mazzariello, one of the most enchanting and brilliant pianists to appear on the music scene in recent years: Anglo-Italian, original and Eurocentric, like Naples at the time, a sought-after destination for artists from all over the world, the city of the four Conservatories, a beacon of reference for European culture.

As in a time machine, in search of the lost sound, Eduardo and Julian Oliver Mazzariello transport the listener into the atmospheres of an enchanted artistic world that told in verse and music, the beauty of the city and its human feeling. On some songs, Eduardo's accordion intervenes, recognizable and suggestive, an instrument that became very popular at the time, sealing the enormous success of that "Art Song", exclusive and cultured, and that still managed to penetrate everyone's homes, even those who could not afford to buy a piano.

In the setlist we find the songs "Fenesta vascia", "Luna nova", "Era de maggio", "arechiare", "'A vucchella", "Serenata napulitana", "I' te vurria vasa' " "Maria Mari' " "Santa Lucia luntana", "Silenzio cantatore", "Uocchie ch'arraggiunate", "'O marenariello", "Te amo bene assaje", "Scétate", “Canzona appassiunata”, “Passione”, “Voce 'e notte”, “Che t'aggia di'”, “Munasterio 'e Santa Chiara” and “Luna rossa”.

The CD “AVVENNE A NAPOLI passione per voce e piano” and the book “Storie del canzoniere napoletano” – in a single box set – were published on May 26, 2022 by La nave di Teseo in collaboration with Betty Wrong Edizioni Musicali di Elisabetta Sgarbi and are available in bookstores and digital stores.