Naples Theatre Festival

Neapolitan musicologist Roberto De Simone is a most remarkable person. He was the artistic director of the San Carlo Theater in the late 1980s and was appointed director of the Naples Conservatory in 1995. He has spent his professional life rejuvenating the cultural history of his city. This includes collecting folk tales and music, and reviving a number of seldom- or never-performed pieces from the vast repertoire of 18th-century Neapolitan comic ...

Fuensanta "La Moneta" was born in Granada on January the 16th 1984. At eight years of age she began her career as a flamenco dancer in the dancing school of "Mariquilla" and later with the well known teachers Antonio Vallejo, Juan Andrés Maya and Manolete. Still at a very early age, she performed on the television show "Veo, Veo", produced by the Seville-based TV network Canal Sur, where she was awarded ...

Alvis Hermanis, born in Riga in 1965, is one of the most significant directors of his generation in European theatre. Since 1997 Hermanis has been the Artistic director of the New Riga Theatre, a lively young theatre with a contemporary repertoire in the centre of Latvian capital. His productions differ from each other quite markedly in terms of style and content, however, they are consistent in being orientated around the work ...

Yoshimoto, daughter of Takaaki Yoshimoto (also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, one of the most famous and influential Japanese philosophers and critics of the 1960s), was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964. Along with having a famous father, Banana Yoshimoto's sister, Haruno Yoiko is a well-known cartoonist in Japan. Growing up in a liberal family, she learned the value of independence from a young age. She graduated from Nihon University's Art College, majoring in ...

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 ...

Tiziano Scarpa was born in Venice in 1963. He is a poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He has written a number of acclaimed novels including Eyes On the Broiler and Western Kamikaze. His radio play Pop Corn, received international critical acclaim and was aired by the BBC and other European radio stations. He regularly speaks at creative writing conferences and writes as a journalist for national newspapers. In 1997 he won the 49th Italia Prize for ...