Glauco Mauri brings to the stage a sort of mosaic crossed by a thin and coherent thread, so that each piece is connected to the next, to form a single song.
Glauco Mauri brings to the stage, from Thursday 16 November 2023 at 21.00 pm (repeats until Sunday 19) at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, Il canto dell'usignolo, poems and theatre by William Shakespeare, a tribute to the great English poet, a genius of European culture who for over four hundred years has spoken to us about the human being in its essence.
Presented by Compagnia Mauri Sturno, The Nightingale's Song is a short fable by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, in which a shepherd asked a nightingale why it had stopped singing, thus depriving it of the pleasant company of its melodious voice.
The little bird replied sadly that the loud croaking of the frogs had put him off singing. The shepherd reiterated that he too was annoyed by the croaking of the frogs, but that it was the silence of the nightingale that condemned him to hear it.
So far the fable of the German man of letters and philosopher, whose metaphor has sparked the imagination of Glauco Mauri, who with Marco Blanchi, accompanied by the music composed and performed on stage on the piano by Giovanni Zappalorto, the percussion by Marzio Audino, the scenographic elements by Marta Crisolini Malatesta, gives voice to the immortal works of Shakespeare, "the nightingale" who with his song narrates our life.
A kaleidoscope that draws from the most beautiful pages of the Bard's masterpieces, from the love expressed in the Sonnets, a universal feeling beyond genres, to Henry V, from As You Like It to Macbeth, from Richard II to Timon of Athens, from Julius Caesar to King Lear and the magic of Prospero in The Tempest.
Between worries, questions, insinuations, doubts, Mauri, on stage, warns against banality and vulgarity, with the metaphor of frogs compared to chattering and noises that annoy, have no meaning and suppress the "twittering of the nightingale".
A song of poetry and humanity that William Shakespeare entrusts to his characters, between love, death, revenge, forgiveness, brutality, urging, without ever judging and condemning.
After more than four centuries since his death, Shakespeare does not cease to amaze with his complexity, beauty, variety and modernity of characters and plots. Poetry, philosophy, the thought of the great author supported by live music and the voice of the actors become body, to revive Shakespeare through his protagonists
Article published on November 13, 2023 - 11:04
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