“Rendez-vous chez Nino Rota” by Mauro Gioia (Italy)
By Stefano • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 12, 2008 | ||
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RENDEZ-VOUS CHEZ NINO ROTA
a show by Mauro Gioia
with Mauro Gioia, Maria de Medeiros, Martirio, Misia and Catherine Ringer
production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in collaboration with Gioia corporation
12th June 9.00pm
First night
duration 80
location: Teatro Diana
arrangemenìts Tonino Esposito
light design Cesare Accetta
texts by Bruno Roberti
piano and direction Fabrizio Romano
clarinet and sax Gianni Minale
violin Gennaro Desiderio
trumpet Gianfranco Campagnoli
guitar and mandolin Claudio Romano
doublebass Luigi Sigillo
percussions Salvatore Minale
keyboards Ciro Cascino
technical direction Gianni Caccia
sound direction Fabrizio Longobardo
production assistant Sara Laguni
administration Alessandro Dittura
For a long time now, Mauro Gioia, retraces the steps and poetic tracks to this obvious “songbook” of our times, exploring the enchanted labyrinth of the music of Nino Rota.
The show presented at the Festival convokes the spectator to a rendez-vous at home of the «Amico Magico», as Fellini called the inseparable musician and mysterious charmer. The chords of Nino Rota, the words and the notes of his musical collection, make up the spell «orchestrated» by Mauro Gioia, that makes appear – for the first time together on-stage – four extraordinary women of show business, and is reflected in their voices. Maria de Medeiros, Martirio, Misia, Catherine Ringer, among the greatest and singular casts of our time, are the sirens of an elegant living room, each on the face of a different music/woman. Misia, with her liquid voice, unites the melancholy of Fado with the tenderness Amarcord, numbs the pain in soft yearning. Maria De Medeiros, with enthralling impertinence and humour, launches with La pappa col pomodoro! the capricious and rebel cry of all “enfants terribles”. The erotic and nocturnal voice of Martirio, soaked with delirium of the “movida” madrilène our cinematographic and affectionate imagery. The French rock diva, Catherine Ringer, modulates the devilish notes of Belfagor Stomp, which Fellini writes to hypnotize his Juliet visited by spirits.
Mauro Gioia, Neapolitan, has tied his creations and his career to the recovery of the melodious memory of his city and to the evocative return of its theatrical traditions tied to variety, to the cabaret artists and to the twentieth-century state-of-the-art. Among his shows: Piedigrottagioia (inspired by Buster Keaton and Caravaggio), Napoli Muta (explores the relationship between silent movies of the 1920s and Neapolitan songs, debuted at the Théâtre de la Ville di Parigi), Cantasirena (a kind of Neapolitan music-hall), Naples au baiser du feu (composed by Renato Rascel and followed by twenty musicians, eight actors and twelve solo dancers of San Carlo), Lunga, la strada. Chi era Alekandr Vertinskji? (homage to one of the most controversial Russian personalities of last century). The works of Mauro Gioia – ever suspended between pop culture and intellectual “divertissement” – have explored the relationship between “scene” songs and theatre, introducing an “acting/singing” between glamour and exoticism, between cinematographic fascination and pictorial mentions.
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