Mauro Gioia
By Stefano • May 18th, 2008 • Category: People 
Mauro Gioia was born in Milan but at the age of 4 his family moved to Naples. He attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti and he graduated in stage design. Later he got interested in traditional Neapolitan songs.
He also studied the Futurist movement in Naples and he carried on researches on cabaret shows. His first work was “Piedigrottagioia” where he was a mechanical puppet.
The show, a homage to his city and forgotten traditional songs, is immediately a hit staged also abroad.
In 1996, his show was also staged at the famous “Salone Margherita”, a theater which had been closed for thirty years.
In 1997, he presented his show Napoli Muta, produced by the Théâtre de la Ville, and directed by Gigi Dall’Aglio. The show was also presented at the Festival Settembre Musica in Turin, at theFestival di Parma, at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples, at the Teatro Central in Seville, at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon, at Teatro Vascello in Rome, at the Festival di Vittoria in Spain.
In 1998 , he set up another showOggi Sposi Ferdinando e Miranda, freely inspired to La Tempesta by Shakespeare, with Neapolitan folk songs. The show is co-produced by Festival delle Ville Vesuviane and the Festival di Maubeuge, and it is directed again by Gigi Dall’Aglio.
In 1998, he staged in a ship in Naples Cantasirena, inspired to the legend of Partenope.
In 1999, again in Naples at Castel dell’Ovo, he staged a lively French show Naples au Baiser de Feu with the music by Renato Rascel. In the cast, Marisa Laurito and Leopoldo Mastelloni.
In 1999, he is again in Paris with the French version of “Cantasirena” performed in an old circus, the Magic Mirror, produced in cooperation with the Théâtre de la Bastille.
In April 2000, he is at the Teatro San Carlo with the dancer Carla Fracci in the ballet by Beppe Menegatti, Filumena Marturano. The show has been also staged in Rome at the Teatro dell’Opera.
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