The Taverna Est Teatro theatre company, founded by director and playwright Sara Sole Notarbartolo, inaugurates a new line of shows dedicated to the meeting between cultural tourism, theatre and the history of the city.
From August 30th to September 1st, with a further appointment on September 6th (starting at 21 pm), the AMULETI festival will be held at Maschio Angioino, as part of “Estate a Napoli”, four shows set in the castle courtyard and produced by Taverna Est Teatro. The magical character that unites many biographies, real or imaginary, of the men and women who lived in the city of Naples is the common thread that ties all the stories together.
Engaging and entertaining, the shows written and directed by director Sara Sole Notarbartolo, are created with actors and musicians of great and recognized talent. A journey into the imagination that intertwines with the ancient and powerful history of a city always balanced between legend and reality. Words and music, irreverent characters, memories and mysteries.
AMULETS are objects considered bearers of protection, luck and magic, a symbol of connection with the past, of defense from negative events, in the constant search for prosperity and happiness. The name of the AMULETI project was born from the desire to leave a precious memory in the Neapolitan public and in the tourists who visit the city and the region, so that the memory itself becomes a form of protection and happiness.
The protagonists are historical actors and musicians of the company supported by new artists, who interpret the more and less known stories of characters who have influenced the history of Naples with their lives: from Gesualdo Da Venosa to Lucrezia D'Alagno passing through Ferdinando di Borbone, Lucia d'Amore, Giacomo Leopardi, the Ciulla della Pignasecca, up to a phantom false son of Ria Rosa and Enrico Caruso.
On stage: Fabio Rossi, Gennaro Monti, Ivan Virgulto, Antonella Esposito, Chiara De Martino, Cinzia Musella, Gennaro Falconetti, Bruno Toro, Teodoro Delfino in theatre, storytelling and music shows.
AMULETI is realized with the support of the Municipality of Naples and with the support of some Neapolitan entrepreneurs, in love with tradition, art and the territory. Among the main sponsors we find Januarius - The miracle of good taste, a prized innovator of the Neapolitan culinary tradition, the Caffè Arabo, a historic place of exchange, meetings and cultural embraces between Naples and the Middle East and the historic perfumery Pepino, which will accompany the project with the launch of "Acqua Classica di Napoli" a very precious fragrance dedicated to the city.
THE APPOINTMENTS
30 AUGUST AT 21 PM
GUARDIANS
With Fabio Rossi
Musician and narrator Gennaro Monti
Text and direction by Sara Sole Notarbartolo
The protagonist is Giacomo Leopardi, his memories, retraced through the soul of a caretaker of one of the Neapolitan houses where the poet lived, who, even in life, had the ability to chat with the deceased.
31 AUGUST AT 21 PM
CAPUZZELLE
With Chiara De Martino, Gennaro Falconetti, Cinzia Musella, Bruno Toro
Texts by Sara Sole Notarbartolo and Bruno Toro, directed by Sara Sole Notarbartolo
The show is a small carillon, funny, evocative, moving. The stories are narrated by the four mysterious characters, through the trick of a gathering of souls waiting to leave purgatory: they are those of Ferdinand of Bourbon, of the Ciulla della Pignasecca, of Carlo Gesualdo and of the bride Lucia of the Church of the souls of Purgatory.
1 SEPTEMBER AT 21
DONNA LUCREZIA tale and song of a secret queen
With Antonella Esposito
Musician and narrator Gennaro Monti
Text and direction by Sara Sole Notarbartolo
Donna Lucrezia D'Alagno was the favorite of King Alfonso of Aragon. Her effigy is in the bas-relief that stands out on the portal of the Maschio Angioino in which she is portrayed in the act of a dance. She remained, it seems, devoted to her king while waiting to be married and in the meantime she supported him in the government of the city. But on the day she understood that the marriage would never happen she took a courageous, carnally liberating decision.
6 SEPTEMBER AT 21
JONNY RAGUSO musical show on the story of the fake secret son of Ria Rosa and Enrico Caruso
With Ivan Virgulto and Teodoro Delfino
Text and direction by Sara Sole Notarbartolo
At the beginning of the 900th century, relations between Naples and the city of New York were very close: incredibly, and in fact it is not true, a fleeting love was born between two great artists in a foreign land and a son gifted, by artistic heritage, with the greatest Italian-American voice that has ever appeared on the face of the earth: Jonny Raguso.
Article published on 17 August 2023 - 12:33
