“Lo Vommaro a Duello” by Roberto de Simone (Italy)
By Stefano • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 27, 2008 9:00 pm | a | June 28, 2008 9:00 pm |
LO VOMMARO A DUELLO
by Roberto De Simone
directed by Roberto De Simone
production Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in cooproduction with Fondazione Teatro San Carlo di Napoli
27th, 28th June
21.00
Mercadante – Teatro Stabile di Napoli
First night
language Italian
duration 165
Roberto De Simone’s new performance is the result of the fusion of Pasquale Starace’s play Lo Vommaro (1742), and Il duello comico, Giovanni Paisiello’s farce in music (1774).
The performance develops along two parallel tracks, including scenes played by actors and music fragments of comic opera, so as to alternate, intersect and merge the two different companies of opera singers and theatre actors. Without following a real plot Lo Vommaro a duello is actually theatre: the exhibition of materials stops just at the conclusion, without a rational or real end. As explained by Roberto De Simone, in the play «the farce in music interrupts to leave space to the play, but suddenly the latter stops as well and music starts again…».
The performance is a «contemporary work on the theatrical languages of the Neapolitan 18th hundred century»; a real Neapolitan language in constant equilibrium between baroque literary style and vernacular style, that is constantly used as a phonetic or rhythmical material to be enjoyed by everybody. This language, and its extraordinary hyperbolic wealth combines with a similarly rich music language, in which Paisiello achieves outstanding results in devising models, typical of melody, with unique rhythmic components.
Born in Naples in 1933, he studied piano and composition with Tita Parisi and Renato Parodi. Composer, musicologist, playwright, director and ethnomusicologist; he is Art Director of the Teatro San Carlo of Naples and Director, for established reputation, of the Conservatory of Naples (1996-2000). He published the following works (published by Einaudi): La Gatta Cenerentola (1997), Fiabe campane (1994), Il presepe popolare napoletano (1998), Il Convitato di Pietra (1998), L’opera buffa del giovedì santo (1999), La Cantata dei pastori (2000), Il Cunto de li cunti (2001). De Simone also directed many operas in the most important theatres of the world, including Le Zite ‘ngalera by Leonardo Vinci, La Serva Padrona, Stabat Mater and Il Flaminio by Giuseppe Pergolesi; Osteria di Marechiaro by Paisiello; Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini; Nabucco by Verdi and Così fan tutte by W. A. Mozart (conductor: Riccardo Muti); Lauda intorno allo Stabat and Requiem in memoria di P.P. Pasolini by De Simone.
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