'Souls of Naples', a journey through Neapolitanness and Neapolitanisms on January 2nd in Quarto

A show that is a journey through great authors such as Eduardo, Viviani, Scarpetta up to Paolo Sorrentino.

A journey among the great Neapolitan authors and beyond. The show “Anime di Napoli” with Nio Lauro, Olimpia La Padula, Gianluca Coppola, with Pepito’s sax directed by Salvatore Piedimonte, will be performed on January 2nd at 19.30:XNUMX pm in the suggestive setting of the church of Santa Maria Nos a Scandalis, in Quarto.

The event is part of the “Quarto, in viaggio per la legalità” program, inaugurated with the first part entitled “The magic of Christmas” and which will continue with other events, including culinary ones, until September 2024.

“Anime di Napoli” is a journey through great authors, such as Eduardo de Filippo, Raffaele Viviani, Eduardo Scarpetta, up to the present day with excerpts from the extraordinary successes on the big screen by Paolo Sorrentino. These are the thousand and more “souls of Naples” that Nio Lauro, together with Olimpia La Padula and Gianluca Coppola, travels through in a show full of many moments, between “Neapolitanity and Neapolitanism” which is a bit of a subtitle. Defining Neapolitanity can be a fascinating and compelling challenge.

“Naples, like a spell – we read in the director's notes - dto listen and live, it is a magical place where dreams and reality intertwine masterfully, as if a divine hand were orchestrating this unique dance.

This mix creates a distinctive lifestyle, universally recognized and admired.

The Neapolitan people, one of a kind, are renowned not only in their homeland but are an example for the world, resisting rampant consumerism.

Here, love for simple things, friendship and human contact prevail, where life's pleasures are meant to be shared.

Neapolitanness embraces a vast panorama of cultural, social, historical and artistic characteristics.

It is a collective identity that is expressed through language, music, cuisine, art and religion.

Neapolitanisms, like linguistic pearls, include expressions of the Neapolitan dialect, which has become a universal language, set phrases, idioms and foreign words adapted to Neapolitan pronunciation, weaving a rich fabric of traditions.

The show 'Anime di Napoli' aims to narrate all this through the words and songs of great figures of the past and present. With actors and musicians on stage, characters who are at times funny, at times grotesque, Pirandello-like, "Eduardian" will come to life, immersing the spectator in a kaleidoscope of colors that draws the magic of the most beautiful and mysterious city in the world.