“Il caso Tenco”, a show by Dino De Angelis, a narrator and writer from Basilicata, was staged on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 March at the Teatro Stabile Santa Filomena in Castellammare di Stabia, as part of the 2024 festival.
The author, supported by images and films of the time, with a powerful narration lasting about two hours, emotionally involved the large audience present, going through the tormented life of Luigi Tenco up to the tragic epilogue that occurred on January 27, 1967, after a disastrous singing performance on the first evening of the 17th edition of the Sanremo Festival.
“We’re going to take a long walk through his life this evening. We’re going to raise a lot of questions, maybe even some answers.”
This is how Dino De Angelis began in the first minutes of the show about the Genoese singer-songwriter and, in fact, continued by sharing a detailed reconstruction of the events that characterized the complicated plot of a judicial case, hastily dismissed as suicide, but crossed by objective inconsistencies that even today, after a good fifty-seven years - in the absence of irrefutable evidence - do not allow it to be freed from motivated suspicions. A circumstance that has also legitimized the request to reopen the case, with consequent counter-investigation, in 2013.
There are too many errors in the analysis conducted in the brief investigations into Tenco's disappearance, too many anomalies that can be found through the details of the time and that reinforce the author's idea regarding the unreliability of the alleged suicide.
Such an end does not seem plausible for a character – who goes against the grain and has a propensity for the pain of living, probably dictated by family vicissitudes – but with immense talent and proven intelligence.
Based on his own research, consultation of biographies and interviews with the main protagonists of the sad story, and in light of current events, Dino De Angelis, with his analytical deductions, skillfully dominated the scene, triggering the lively interest and participation of the audience present, who sometimes interacted with him through brief interruptions of the heartfelt monologue, revealing its objective value even more.
The work of the Lucanian author, in 2021 - in the period in which the inhibition of live shows and meetings was in force - was preceded by the series entitled "Nessuna lacrima vada rifiutita - Il caso Tenco", visible on his Facebook or Linkedin channels, still available on the web.
A tool that proves to be an interesting opportunity for fans of the late singer-songwriter to delve deeper into the issue, but also a valid approach to the artistic caliber of Dino De Angelis.
Article published on March 4, 2024 - 13pm
Video Chronicles
