The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Emma Dante, Eduardo De Filippo, Isa Danieli and Lina Sastri among the protagonists of the December 2014 shows in the theaters of Naples
For the month of December 2014 and for the Christmas holidays the theaters of Naples offer a rich program of quality shows that will delight those who choose to spend the cold evenings of this period in the company of art and culture.
Fans of classical ballet and opera will be able to witness an original version of the Sleeping Beauty quality The magic Flute at the Bellini Theater, while at the Teatro San Carlo they will be staged Trovatore of Verdi and The Nutcracker. For prose lovers, instead, will be represented pièce by Emma Dante, Eduardo De Filippo, by Lina Sastri, Luparella by Enzo Moscato with Isa Danieli.
Napolike will advise you the best theatrical performances not to be missed for the prose, opera and ballet genre, while if you love comedy and musical consult this article.
Teatro Diana
The scene
Lucia and Maria, two femininities compared for a comedy of misunderstandings where one is forced by circumstances to have to play the "part" of the other in front of a thirty-year-old boy who has just met. Until the game between them, under the boy's hallucinated gaze, no longer holds up and the two reveal themselves to him in their true identities. And who is the boy? A young man raised by an imperious and absolutist mother. The two women and the boy discover they live in the same world all to be redone because “The past are only gutted walls, earthquake-stricken houses from which we must escape”. On stage the famous ones Angela Finocchiaro e Maria Amelia Monti directed by Cristina Comencini.
Date: until December 14 2014
Price tickets: from 18 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The scene
Teatro Bellini
The magic Flute
THEOrchestra of Piazza Vittorio, the most multi-ethnic in Italy, celebrates 150 replicas of its own The Magic Flute with a tour that will also stop in Naples. The original version of Mozart becomes a musical fable set in a multiracial society of these times and in an imaginary place, without references to real geography. Classical music also finds other paths: from folk, to reggae to classical to pop and jazz, full of references to other cultures. Each musician brings his culture, his language to the Opera: Arabic, English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Wolof, Italian.
Date: from the 9 14 2014 December
Price tickets: from 16 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The magic Flute
Sleeping Beauty
The famous story written by Perrault becomes an original ballet choreographed by Fredy Franzutti, one of the best known choreographers on the national scene, representing the misadventures of the beautiful princess Aurora in the south of the country. But the spindle sting is replaced by a bite from the Salento tarantula. Princess Aurora, a fresh Mediterranean girl, has no choice but to live her atrocious fate. It will be the magic of the lilac gypsy and the kiss of love of a prince-anthropologist in the footsteps of the legend that will awaken the girl from her centenary sleep ...
Date: from the 26 28 2014 December
Price tickets: from 16 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Sleeping Beauty
Little Bellini
Some Girl (s)
The comedy of. Is back at the Teatro Bellini Neil LaBute which tells of a young man, teacher and aspiring writer, who decides to take a trip before marrying à rebours in his own life, looking for his ex to try - in a paradoxical attempt to atone for the mistakes of previous lives - to fix, as the author himself says, "The mess he has combined in his love life along the road to his own maturity".
Date: from 11 to 28 December 2014
Price tickets: from 6 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Some Girl (s)
Stable Theater of Naples
The mayor of the Health District
Marco Sciaccaluga leads to San Ferdinando Theater a tribute to the great Eduardo. On stage Eros Pagni in the role of the protagonist, acting for the first time in Neapolitan.
Date: from 26 December 2014 to 11 January 2015
Price tickets: from 13 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The mayor of the Health District
New Theatre
Luparella
Fifteen years after the first debut Enzo Moscato reproposes one of his best known pièce reciting alongside the talented Isa Danieli. Protagonist of the drama is Nana, the white and outcast soul, young-very old creature in the "minute" service of the women of a bordello perched on the Quartieri Spagnoli, in Naples, desolate and dejected, of the Nazi occupation, at the end of the summer of 1943. Moscato himself defines Nanà as "Symbol of a Naples-resentment and not a folkloric postcard, voice and face of redemption action, in the face of the infinite lies and lies about a people, delivered to us by those who pass it down to us as inert and sluggish, loafers and turncoats, to become , in the story, the violent author of a crime, a kind of catharsis, sudden and bloody, carried out in defense of a victim, of someone more subject and weaker than her: of Luparella, in fact: the other body-not body on stage, pure ghost, evocation of memory, faithful shadow of Nana in the obscene and foul-mouthed rosary of the martyrs ”.
Date: from the 12 21 2014 December
Price tickets: from 12 to 25 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Luparella
Toledo Gallery
Ballarini
Emma Dante he takes his last theatrical work to the Galleria Toledo theater. The story of two elderly lovers who, at the stroke of the new year, evoke memories of a past life together. The work stages the experience of choosing to build a life of two, the memory and the stages of this journey. The two elders then forget the ailments, “They take off their old masks, put on their glasses and start dancing again. On the notes of old songs, he and she celebrate the arrival of a new year by dancing their love story backwards ”.
Date: from the 4 14 2014 December
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Ballarini
Nummere, very striking Neapolitan bingo
The traditional appointment with the theatrical and interactive Neapolitan tombola is back, which will make the spectators real protagonists of the game / show. A busty Neapolitan commoner, a bit of a bewitchment, weaves around the numbers drawn an inexhaustible phantasmagoria of inventions and founds. Everything turns into a fun happening that celebrates a rite-game where the actor and the public have fun together with the old bingo with an ancient flavor.
Date: from 25 to 28 December 2014
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Nummere
Teatro San Carlo
Trovatore
The famous work of Giuseppe Verdi, which is part of the Popular Trilogy together with La Traviata ed The Rigoletto, inaugurates the opera and ballet season 2014/2015 of the San Carlo Theater. On stage the orchestra, choir and corps de ballet of the Teatro di San Carlo, directed by Michał Znaniecki, conductor Nicola Luisotti, choir master Marco Faelli.
Date: from 12 to 20 December 2014
Price tickets: from 30 to 400 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Trovatore
The Nutcracker
Back to the Teatro San Carlo the classic Christmas ballet par excellence, music by the famous Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij who meticulously followed the directions of the choreographer Marius Petipa and, later, those of his successor Lev Ivanov. The story, inspired by the story Nutcracker and the king of mice of Hoffmann tells of little Clara who, on Christmas Eve, receives a nutcracker in the shape of a toy soldier as a gift. In her dreams, everything around her begins to come to life and she lives a fantastic adventure in the company of the Confetto Fairy and the King of Mice who want to steal her nutcracker, who comes alive becoming a Prince.
Date: from 30 December 2014 to 5 January 2015
Price tickets: from 20 to 80 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The Nutcracker
Delle Palme Theater
The Aeneid
The extraordinary epic work of Virgilio becomes a new boom in musicals with twenty artists among actors, singers and dancers, directed by Domenico Maria Corrado. An imposing and majestic show, full of music and choreography worthy of the best musical comedies, to tell the story of the pious Enea sung by Virgil in the Aeneid. In a formula that combines the classic text with the irony of the Neapolitan language, it returns to the spectator a mix of culture and entertainment that is very useful especially from the didactic point of view.
Date: from the 10 21 2014 December
Price tickets: from 20 to 80 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The Aeneid
Lina Sastri - Travel notes
Lina Sastri reviews her career and the encounters that have studded her. From Eduardo to Patroni Griffi, to cinema, to music, to the invention of his musical theater, from Filumena to Pirandello, passing through De Simone and Pino Daniele, to Ninetta's house, by the same actress / author.
Date: from 25 December 2014 to 4 January 2015
Price tickets: from 35 to 40 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Travel notes
