A new appointment with the Campania Theater Festival. In particular, from 9 June to 9 July 2023 will host the sixteenth edition of the event, it is the seventh directed by Ruggero Cappuccio.

The event is organized by the Campania Dei Festival foundation with the support of the Campania Region and foresees a very rich programme with many outdoor shows in Naples, many of which will also take place in the park of the Villa Floridiana in Vomero.

But this will not be the only location, the shows will also take place in many Neapolitan theaters such as the politeama, Mercadante, Trianon Theater, Sala Assoli, Villa Campolieto in Herculaneum and many other places not only in Naples but throughout Campania.

There will be nine sections that will include a total of 93 events, 116 performances with 57 world premieres and 5 national performances.

The program and the sections

Here are the sections and some of the scheduled events. To know them all it will be necessary to consult the complete program on the official website of the event.

International

18 and 19 June at the Teatro Politeama national premiere of Kingdom by Belgian artist Anne Cecilie Vandalem
7 and 8 July at the Sala Assoli in Naples the world premiere of the Berlin director Lydia Ziemke. The show will be in Arabic and German with Italian subtitles
8 and 9 July at the Teatro Politeama national premiere of "In The solitude of cotton fields" by Koltès

National prose

11 June at Sala Assoli “Pinocchio/ what is a person? Studio n°1” conceived and directed by Davide Iodice
13 and 14 June at the Mercadante Theater "Circus Don Quixote" by Ruggero Cappuccio
20 and 21 June at the Mercadante Theater "The rite" by Ingmar Bergman
26 and 27 June at the Mercadante Theater "The betrothed to the test" by Andrée Ruth Shammah
29 June at Fortunato Calvino's Teatro Nuovo "Vico Sirene".
July 7 at the Roman Theater of Benevento “Aristofane

Special projects

June 12 - July 5 ” The Royal dream. The Bourbons of Naples”
16 June at the Trianon Viviani Theater “DISADIRARE. Another Iliad” by Adriana Follieri
17 June at the Trianon Viviani Theater "Melagrana" conceived and directed by Gina ferri

Music

9 June at Villa Floridiana "It snows on my hand" show of words, music and images with Peppe Servillo
24 June at Vomero "Lunaria" by the writer and director Vincenzo Consolo
July 2 in Villa Floridiana ” Shostakovic's glasses” by Valerio Cappelli

Dance

15 June at Villa Floridiana “Timelessness Dances_primo passo” choreography by Andriana Borriello
26 and 27 June at Vomero “Vanity Dark Queen-Niobe regine di Tebe”
27 June at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, Ludovica Zoina with "Fragile film - Only in mirrors"

SportOpera

20 June “Athletes (at the training camp) by Franco Arminio
22 June night radio commentary by Francesco Montanari
25 June concert by Musica da closet entitled "I wanted to be a diver"

Italian Literature

July 5 at Villa Floridiana "Brothers in verse"
July 7 at Villa Floridiana "Dalla siepe" by Rosita Copioli
July 8 at Villa Floridiana "Tu con me" by Elisa Ruotolo

School Observatory

9-11 June at the Trianon Theater in Naples, the students of nine secondary schools will bring down short shows resulting from the workshops held by the directors Manuel di Martino, Adriana Follieri, Raffaele Parisi
14 June the teachers and students of the University of Naples Federico II will give life to "Fire on Naples"

Observatory

13 June at the Trianon Theater "Afanisi" text and direction by Alessandro Paschitto
28 June "The dark reverse of things" with Alessandra Cocco
29 June "The courage of the first note" by Rocco Tedeschi

For all the other scheduled events you can consult the official site.