Massimo Ranieri, La Traviata, La Festa di Montevergine and many other theatrical performances not to be missed on stage in Naples in May 2018!
Alla domanda "What is the theater?", the French artist Eugène Delacroix replied: “One of the most certain testimonies of man's need to experience as many emotions as possible at once”. A phrase that makes us reflect on how deep, and sometimes unconscious, ours is human desire for theater, our need to witness a story or the evolution of a state of mind that come to life before our eyes, participating directly in the emotions.
We are now at the end of the 2017 / 2018 theater season but there are still many opportunities to get excited by watching best performances on stage in Naples in May 2018. Many proposals in the program, both for fans of light comedies, both for those who like to attend prose performances, or those of opera.
Among the masterpieces on the bill: for those who love the work will not lose La Traviata al Teatro San Carlo, while for those who want to spend a few hours of carefree there is The Festa di Montevergine al Sannazaro Theater.
But many others are the shows staged in May 2018 in Naples, you just have to choose! And for true fans, in the month of June 2018 the appointments with the theater in Naples will continue with the eleventh edition of Naples Theater Festival and, in the months of June and July 2018, with the kermesse Pompeii Theatrum Mundi.
Teatro Diana
You have not told me I love you anymore
An ironic comedy that tells the story of an Italian family Contemporary struggling with a sudden traumatic change that will cause many changes. At the end of a difficult and intense human journey this family nucleus made up of a father, mother and children in their twenties, will find itself completely transformed and perhaps more prepared to survive, beyond the single roles labeled by society. In the role of parents the unparalleled Lorella Cuccarini e Giampiero Ingrassia.
Date: from 9 to 20 May 2018
Price tickets: from 17 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show You have not told me I love you anymore
Neapolitan Malia. Naples: 1950 - 1960
Great return for the beloved Massimo Ranieri at the Diana Theater that proposes, at the end of the theater season, his show that offers a fascinating journey into the past of Neapolitan songs. Protagonists of the musical show the songs and songs that made Naples famous in the years 50 and 60, those of a magical city to the point of enchant and fascinate.
Date: from 25 to 27 May 2018
Price tickets: from 28 to 55 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Neapolitan Malia
Teatro Mercadante
Arrevuoto 2018
Thirteenth edition of the theater and pedagogy project that operates between the suburbs and the center of Naples with many teenagers and young people who meet with the world of theatrical languages.
The theatrical text brought this year is Knock or the triumph of medicine di Jules Romains, a hilarious and caustic comedy that deals with the damage caused by medicalization. The protagonist of the story is Dr. Knock, an alleged doctor who arrives in a provincial town where nobody ever resorts to the doctor. He will be able to turn this sad town into a crowded health care center.
Date: from the 12 and 13 May 2018
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Arrevuoto 2018
Teatro Bellini
Caipirinha, Caipirinha!
Sarasole Notarbartolo She is the author and director of this funny comedy that tells the story of three friends from birth, Bob, Walter and Vincenzo, also linked by the love for the same woman, Wilma. The pièce explores love, sex, competition, social dynamics, from the male point of view, among unspoken, contents subtended in looks, silences, trivial or articulated metaphors with which we always escape from the truth.
Date: from 8 to 13 May 2018
Price tickets: from 10 to 18 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Caipirinha, Caipirinha!
Why are you looking at me?
Angelo Duro presents his one-man-show at the Teatro Bellini in Naples, which reinvents the theater, making us laugh, reflect and which will perhaps change a little. This now famous "atypical" Palermitan comedian will tell us how, as a child, as a "good boy" as he was, he has been forced to react to the cheats and injustices of life, choosing to become "bad". He will take the opportunity to analyze the society in which we live, the reality of yesterday and today, man and woman, the present and the future and the stereotypes (too many) that unknowingly influence us.
Date: 10 May 2018
Price tickets: from 16 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Why are you looking at me?
Teatro San Carlo
The straw hat of Florence
At the Teatro San Carlo there is the musical farce written in the 1945 by Nino Rota but staged only ten years later. This small masterpiece, characterized by lightness and musical genius, is set in the magical atmosphere of Paris and its plot is built on the basis of a paradoxical and colossal misunderstanding. To make the show even more interesting a score in which the author of the famous music of the film Federico Fellini has fun to quote and self-mention.
Date: from 10 to 13 May 2018
Price tickets: from 20 to 150 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The straw hat of Florence
La Traviata
On the stage of the Teatro San Carlo back on stage one of the most beloved works by the public of all time: La Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi. The opera in three acts on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is inspired by the famous novel by Alexadre Dumas son La dame aux camelias, Namely La Signora delle camelie. The story tells oftormented and impossible love between the young Dumas and Marie, one of the most refined and desired courtesans of Paris and died of tisi only 23 years in 1847, a year before the publication of the novel.
Date: 20 from May to June 20 2018
Price tickets: from 20 to 130 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show La Traviata
New Theatre
The tampering of words
The writer Gianrico Carofiglio leads to New Theater of Naples a text taken from his novel of the same name that proposes a literary, political and judicial investigation on the importance of words, addressing quotes from Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, Pirmo Levi, Calvino, but also Obama and Bob Dylan. An interesting result emerges reflection on the use of terms and words, on their function and on the value they have in our ethical and civil life. The only way to restore dignity to words is, for Carofiglio, per with itthat is, disassemble them and reassemble them in their original direction.
Date: from 10 to 13 May 2018
Price tickets: dai
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The tampering of words
Sannazaro Theater
The Festa di Montevergine
A 21 years since the death of Luisa Conte il Sannazaro Theater reproposes one of his most ambitious artistic productions. The Festa di Montevergine, written by Raffaele Viviani, is the Neapolitan historical show par excellence but it is also one of the biggest parties in Southern Italy. Lara Sansone, grandson of Luisa Conte, returns to the scene with this beloved and engaging show to revive the habits and customs of ancient Naples, the vocabulary of the Neapolitan language, the traditions and the theater of the past, that of the famous playwright Raffaele Viviani.
Date: from 11 to 20 May 2018
Price tickets: 30 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The Festa di Montevergine
New Health Theater
Act of faith
Act of faith is the title of the show based on the novel by Maurizio De Giovanni The rest of the week, interpreted and directed by Paolo Cresta. The protagonist of the pièce is the football, in particular the passion that the city of Napoli has for his team and the passion for an indisputable myth of football, acclaimed and revered as in a real "act of faith".
Date: from 12 to 13 May 2018
Price tickets: 12 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Act of faith
The return of the Mammasantissima
The show is a project by Luciano Saltarelli that takes its cue from the The Mammasantissima, film by 1979 directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring Mario Merola who played Don Vincenzo Tramontano, a much loved neighborhood ward because he administers the district according to his moral code, on the side of the weak and against the bullies. The theatrical rehabilitation, after forty years after the release of the film and after the birth of the Neapolitan scene, offers a more benevolent and almost abstract look towards the mythical figures, "Plastered in their expressiveness, like the Sicilian puppets or tribal masks".
Date: from 18 to 20 May 2018
Price tickets: 12 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The return of the Mammasantissima
Flat 401
The protagonist of the story is Alice, a young worker who lives in a rented apartment, inside a skyscraper of 101 pani. Everything changes when the owner intimates her to leave the apartment without motivation, based on unwritten condominium laws. In front of this forced eviction Alice has two choices: continue working and losing the house, because sooner or later someone will come in and will let her find the suitcases made; stay in the apartment and lose your job. The show will make you think about daily injustices suffered by all of us, on the arrogance of power and on the impossibility of man to defend himself against criminal acts against those who are part of a civil society.
Date: from 25 to 27 May 2018
Price tickets: 12 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Flat 401
