Among the best theatrical performances on stage in Naples in February 2017 Shakespeare, Molière, Ibsen and performances taken from contemporary novels
In Naples, theater is an art that is always alive and in constant ferment. Every day the theaters of the city offer the public high quality shows and a varied offer, to satisfy everyone's tastes. That's why Napolike selects for you every month the best shows not to be missed in Naples, for the genre Prosa, opera and ballet, and that of February 2017 promises to be a month full of valid proposals that will make you want to spend a few hours in the name of culture and one of the noblest arts of all.
On stage this many month classical, both faithful to the originals and audaciously revisited, like Shakespeare, Molière, Ibsen, but also new pièce taken from modern and contemporary novels, and not even the work al Teatro San Carlo with the first Italian performance of "The Enchantress" by Tchaikovsky.
You just have to choose!
And if, instead, you love comedies and musicals, consult our article on best comedies and musicals on stage in Naples in February 2017.
Teatro Mercadante
Julius Caesar
On the stage of the Teatro Mercadante the stage is staged famous opera written by William Shakespeare in 1599 inspired partly by historical facts and partly by Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's “Lives of the Greek and Roman nobles”. The story is here compressed into three years, which makes the narrative a single flow, an uninterrupted conflict, both on a personal and political level. The director of this new contemporary version, Alex Rigola, turns the drama around the exercise of power, unusually personified here by a woman, Maria Grazia Mandruzzato, in the role of Julius Caesar.
Date: from 8 to 19 February 2017
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Julius Caesar
San Ferdinando Theater
Malaise
The young and talented Neapolitan director Davide Iodice conceived an original "Hamlet" in a rap key, in which the famous Shakespeare tragedy has been completely rewritten in Neapolitan by a group of five Neapolitan rappers who have adapted the verses of the Bard to the metrics and language of this musical genre and to our dialect. As Davide Iodice himself stated, on the choice of his reinterpretation of the classic: “Because Hamlet is the very emblem of making theater and it is a question of maturity. I rediscover this need now, as I find again the need to say among many others, a word of mine about Naples [...] here I feel that it is not so much a question of being or not being but of being unwell, in the double sense of our language that says together bad person but also of a profound, existential discouragement: to be or not to be evil, rather. No one better and better than the numerous rappers of our territories can express, in my opinion, this malaise today ".
Date: from the 1 to the 12 February 2017
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Malaise
Il genio dell'abbandono
The director Claudio of Palma brings to the stage and interprets the theatrical version of the novel “The genius of abandonment” by Wanda Marasco, candidate for the 2015 Strega Prize which tells the life of the greatest Italian sculptor between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Vincenzo Gemito. “Vincenzo Gemito was born in Naples in the condition of an outcast. The city, mother and stepmother, adopts him, and together with him builds hubris and arete (the great fault of arrogance and remaining faithful to one's virtues), the negative and the positive, the process of destruction and strength to be able to rise again ”.
Date: from 22 February to 5 March 2017
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Il genio dell'abbandono
Teatro Bellini
Elvira
Toni Servillo brings on stage a new and original pièce taken from Molière and the classic comedy di Louis Jouvet, which carries the public in a closed theater and confined between stalls and proscenium, to witness the extraordinary process of creating the theatrical character. The "pretext" is Donna Elvira's monologue of Molière's "Don Giovanni", masterfully interpreted by Petra Valentini. But the spectators attend the rehearsal of the monologue, discovering tricks and secrets, but also the sufferings and obstacles of identifying the actor with the character, in a continuous conflict between comédien and acteur.
Date: until February 12, 2017
Price tickets: from 14 to 32 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Elvira
Frankenstein 'or monster
The Sad Seekers, the director and lyricist Sara Sole Notarbartolo and the actors Valentina Curatoli and Rosario Giglio lead to the Bellini Theater in Naples (e also in reply to Piccolo Bellini from 23 to 26 February 2017) a hilarious musical comedy inspired by the famous novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley but which mixes in a surprising way gothic myth, Neapolitan comedy, epistolary novel and variety theater, pop music and Neapolitan song, musical and café chantant, in a crescendo of absurdities twists.
Date: from the 17 to the 19 February 2017
Price tickets: from 15 to 22 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Frankenstein 'or monster
A doll house
Filippo Timi will be staged at the Bellini Theater in Naples in the role of Dr. Torvald, star of "Doll's House", the famous opera by Henrik Ibsen what a true symbol, in the "distant" 1879, of women's emancipation in modern society. The director of this adaptation of the theatrical masterpiece is a woman, Andrée Ruth Shammah, who, while maintaining maximum fidelity to the original text, rotates the vicena around Nora, who here appears as the real manipulator, a sort of puppeteer who moves the strings of the men around her, all played by a single actor: Filippo Timi.
Date: from 21 to 26 February 2017
Price tickets: from 14 to 32 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show A doll house
Little Bellini
Frankenstein 'or monster
The musical show de The Sad Seekers makes an encore in the small experimental room of the Bellini Theater in Naples also on other dates!
Date: from 23 to 26 February 2017
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Frankenstein 'or monster
Tony Pagoda - Return to Italy
Iaia forte staged at the Piccolo Bellini a show based on the novel "They are all right" by Paolo Sorrentino, centered on the character of Tony Pagoda, alter ego of Tony Pisapia, protagonist of Sorrentino's previous novel "The man in most", interpreted in the cinema by Toni Servillo.
Tony Pagoda is a singer, as stated by the same actress “Cocaine addict, desperate and vital because it is a creature so beyond the genders that it can, in my opinion, also be embodied by a woman. I like to imagine that Pagoda's stalwart grin hides a feminine soul, a "lostness", a yearning for a lost harmony ".
Date: from the 7 to the 12 February 2017
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Tony Pagoda
Teatro San Carlo
The enchantress
For the first time in Italy it will be staged at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in collaboration with the Marinsky Theater in St. Petersburg “Charodeika (The Enchantress)”, composed between 1885 and 1887 by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky. The opera, in four acts on a libretto by Ippolit Vasil'yevich Shpazhinsky taken from his tragedy of the same name, was performed for the first time in St. Petersburg, at the Marinsky Theater, on November 1, 1887 and tells of a woman, Nastas'ja, known as "the enchantress", according to a popular rumor that every man who meets her is destined to fall in love with her.
Date: from 17 to 25 February 2017
Price tickets: from 28 to 130 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The enchantress
Toledo Gallery
Edward II
Laura Angiulli brings to the stage, at the Galleria Toledo in Naples, an adaptation of the famous work of Christopher Marlowe "Edward II", represented for the first time in 1592. The story tells the story of Edward II of England, an English sovereign whose homosexuality was revealed in the relationship with the court councilor Pietro Gaveston, among the causes of his death sentence.
Date: from 21 February to 5 March 2017
Price tickets: from 12 to 15 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Edward II
Cilea Theater
The miser
Alessandro Benvenuti will perform at the Teatro Cilea in Naples, Harpagon, the protagonist of the famous work by Molière "The miser" which tells of an inveterate stingy who uses everything and everyone, including children, to accumulate and multiply his money. In this adaptation by Ugo Chiti there will be contaminations with the commedia dell'arte but the absolute focus will be on Arpagone, with even more pronounced psychological implications, such as his paranoia, fears and obsessions adapted to the modern context.
Date: from the 9 to the 12 February 2017
Price tickets: from 16 to 25 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show The miser
