drecently inaugurated, Naples to Paris. The Louvre invites the Capodimonte Museum brought over 70 Capodimonte masterpieces in the halls of the Louvre. The Neapolitan warmth and theatrical spectacularity thus burst into the Grande Galerie «without seeking a balance» but, as explains Capodimonte director Sylvain Bellenger: «by introducing a dramatic element into the grace of the French gaze».
The dialogue expands from today 28 June to 3 July with The ghosts of Naples by Eduardo De Filippo, show created and directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota. Project born from the collaboration between the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and the Theater of Tuscany on dramaturgy by Marco Giorgetti, Director of the Teatro della Toscana. That explains: «These ghosts are the imponderable with which we have to confront, in a mysterious dialogue between the living and the dead about eternity. The show is an encounter between languages, authors and different generations, on a stage where you never stop rethinking art and its infinite variations».
It is the unforgettable words of Eduardo De Filippo, between music, songs and quotations from Luigi Pirandello and Fernando Pessoa that ignite this particular polyphony, hymn to the city of Naples, cosmopolitan capital of a universe in reconstruction with its imaginaries, during the post-war period.
Ernesto Lama. (Nunzia Esposito)
The ghosts of Naples at the Louvre Museum
It is precisely in the Grande Galerie that the first part of the representation takes shape, between magical realism and everyday poetry, with poetic wanderings along the itinerary of the exhibition, animated by some artists of the Troupe de l’Imaginaire of the Théâtre de la Ville. The second part is instead set in the Cour Lefuel, never open to the public.
Mariangela D’Abbraccio. (Press office)
Many interpreters of a representative group who will recite in French, Italian and Neapolitan. Ernesto Lama, veteran of the Edwardian repertoire, Francesco Cordella as Pulcinella, and Mariangela D’Abbraccio: «This encounter between Italy and France offers new perspectives – says the actress – and takes Eduardo to a land where it has not been represented as frequently as in the rest of the world, it gives even more satisfaction. I will sing Bad woman And Oh seaa poem by Eduardo that I intertwine with the notes of Pino Daniele. However, what moves me in a particular way is the reading of the speech De Filippo made during his last public appearance in Taormina, in 1984, a few months before his death».
Words full of emotion, which carry within the sense of a profession: «Doing theater seriously means sacrificing a life. The heart always trembled, every evening, at all the first performances. Even tonight my heart is beating and will continue to beat even when it stops.
From Napule is to Black Tammurriata: in the cast also Lina Sastri, who together with the guitarist Filippo D’Allaio, brings to the stage «a declaration of love to her master of life and stage, that Neapolitan Moliere by Eduardo, one of the founding fathers of contemporary theatre, who saw his first opera outside Italy, These ghosts!» staged at the Théâtre de la Ville in 1955. With her, during this “creative and choral operation”, Filumena Marturano and all the passion of Neapolitan music.
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