"Antonio and Cleopatra", "Otello" with the music of Verdi, "A Clockwork Orange" and "I Menecmi" by Plautus staged in the theaters of Naples for the month of April 2014
Spring is almost upon us, and the theatrical season is coming to an end. In Naples, in the month of April 2014, there are some theaters that continue to offer high-quality, high-quality prose, opera and ballet performances, to end the 2013/2014 theater season “with a flourish”.
Among the "gems" not to be missed in Neapolitan theaters, the shows Antony and Cleopatra at the Teatro Stabile in Naples e Othello by Shakespeare, in the magnificent setting of the Teatro San Carlo, and the unprecedented theatrical adaptation of Clockwork Orange, in the national premiere at the Teatro Bellini, directed by Gabriele Russo and music by Morgan.
If, however, you want to laugh at the theater or attend a musical, consult the our dedicated section!
Stable Theater of Naples
The director Luca De Fusco he signs the direction of a stage version of Shakespeare's tragedy characterized by impact visual effects, strong contrasts between light and shadow and the presence of projections, which make the show a musical-visual dramaturgical reading, a continuous dialogue between music and words. Theater, cinema, music and acting are contaminated to create a total work with a strong emotional charge.
When: 26 from March to April 6 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Antony and Cleopatra
Gabriele D'Annunzio between loves and battles
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Vate d'Italia, poet and writer, a show taken from L'amante guerriero, written by Giordano Bruno Guerri, the most authoritative biographer of D'Annunzio, is staged at the Mercadante Theater. A play that tells us about the loves, passions, infidelities, political and worldly adventures of one of the most important and discussed Italian characters.
When: from 11 to 13 April 2014
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Gabriele D'Annunzio between loves and battles
Teatro San Carlo
Othello
The psychological tragedy of Shakespeare, one of the most famous of the world theater drama, will be staged at the Teatro San Carlo in the version of Giuseppe Verdi of 1886, with the original music he composed fifteen years after theAida, on the “solicitation” of Arrigo Boito and Giulio Ricordi. The orchestra and choir of the San Carlo Theater in Naples will accompany the opera.
When: from 13 to 29 April 2014
Price tickets: from 30 to 160 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Othello
Teatro Bellini
The theatrical adaptation of Clockwork Orange, a dystopian novel written by Anthony Brugges in 1962, but also a "cult" film shot by director Stanley Kubrick in 1971. Directed by Gabriele Russo, music by Morgan, which transform Brugges' text into a real sound score able to dialogue with the action and with the rarefied and dreamlike world of the nightmare of the protagonist Alex, and to rework the classical music of Beethoven in a modern key.
When: from 1 to 13 April 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Clockwork Orange
Little Bellini
The Italian director and actor Fausto Paravidino brings his funny comedy to the Teatro Bellini Exit, the story of a couple crisis with pressing and “cinematic” rhythms and full of moments of direct confrontation with the spectators, up to the showdown.
When: from 1 to 13 April 2014
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Exit
Augustan theater
The Menecms, two Neapolitan twins
The famous director Tato Russo proposes on stage at the Augusteo Theater an unprecedented version of The Menecms of Plautus, merging it with contaminating it with the version of Shakespeare and with the great comic art of the Neapolitan theater school. Set in ancient Neapolis, the story tells of the adventures of two twins, whose roles are entrusted to a single actor, amidst jokes, misunderstandings and moments of hilarious comedy. Two hours of laughter guaranteed.
When: from 4 to 13 April 2014
Price tickets: from 25 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The Menecms
Troisi Theater
A theatrical homage to Coco Chanel, one of the most undisputed icons of our times, told by Milena Vukotic and David Sebasti, in all his contradictions and most intimate aspects, his strong but love-hungry character, tenacity, ambition and creative intelligence. A refined and ironic show of the woman who contributed to the independence and emancipation of customs and women from all over the world.
When: from 11 to 13 April 2014
Price tickets: from 15 to 22 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show C as Chanel
