The best theatrical performances in Naples, February 2018 | Prose, Opera and Ballet

Peter Brook, Sergio Rubini with "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevskij, "La Traviata" and many other shows staged in the theaters of Naples in February 2018!

In our critical age, filled with misunderstandings and suffering that affect every level and dimension, both personal and universal, it seems that theater is the only solution to confront reality. The performances on stage in Naples this February 2018 demonstrate that theater can be a key to interpreting the world's ills and a useful tool for reflection.

Like the famous English director Peter Brook , on stage at the Teatro Bellini with his Battlefield , in which he brings us to life a story of violence with an ancestral spirit that reflects the suffering of our times; or like Here and Now at the Teatro Nuovo , in which the director and author Mattia Torre recounts the critical issues of our country through the verbal clash between two men on a scooter, but who are none other than two victims of the same system.

Also not to be missed is a prose classic such as Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky , transformed by Sergio Rubini into a two-voiced story that addresses the internal conflicts of human beings, torn apart by guilt and by having contributed to the collective good by committing a murder, and two opera classics such as My Fair Lady and La Traviata at the Teatro San Carlo.

If you want to attend the best shows on stage in the theatres of Naples in the month of February 2018 for the genre Prose, Opera and Ballet , all you have to do is choose from the proposals of Napolike!

Teatro Bellini

Battlefield

The great English director Peter Brook brings to the Teatro Bellini in Naples his celebrated play based on the Mahabharata , the seminal work of Hindu literature, written over the course of approximately eight centuries (between the 8th century BC and the 9th century AD) and which, with its over 100.000 stanzas, represents the largest saga in world literature. Peter Brook adapts his Battlefield, which debuted in 1985 with a monumental nine-hour version, into a smaller theatrical event that continues to open our eyes to reality.

Date: from the 20 to the 25 February 2018
Price tickets: from 15 to 32 euro

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Crime / Punishment

Sergio Rubini directs and stars, alongside Luigi Lo Cascio , in Dostoevsky 's most famous work , Crime and Punishment , transformed into a two-voice story. The audience will experience firsthand the inner torment of the protagonist , Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, a poor young man in debt who decides, to solve his problems, to kill an old loan shark. But feelings of guilt and terror surface in his soul, combined with the clear conviction that he has acted for the collective good.

Date: from the 27 February to the 4 March 2018
Price tickets: from 15 to 32 euro

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New Theatre

We kiss it

At the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, a play by Manlio Santanelli is being performed. It tells the story of the encounter between two opposing worlds, a "lazzara" and a Jacobin , against the backdrop of the Neapolitan revolution of 1799. These two worlds, as director Giovanni Esposito stated , are "immersed in a context of war where desperation builds weapons with the deadly mechanics of anything goes ." But, far from reality and judgmental gazes, their perspectives change, and certainties disappear, in a small revolution of points of view sealed with a kiss on the hand.

Date: from the 16 to the 18 February 2018
Price tickets: from 12 to 15 euro

Information on times and tickets for the show Il baciamano

Here and now

A unique theatrical performance, directed by Mattia Torre , recounts an accident involving two scooters on a secluded street on the outskirts of Rome. The two injured individuals, lying on the ground just a few meters from each other, awaiting help (which never arrives), collide, expressing the cynicism and sense of struggle of contemporary Italy, a country always ideally on the brink of civil war. A performance that reflects the crisis of our times , "where the theater can and must emit desperate cries, exorcise terrible events, and issue silent, playful calls for concord . "

Date: from the 21 to the 25 February 2018
Price tickets: from 10 to 20 euro

Information on times and tickets for the show Here and Now

Teatro San Carlo

My Fair Lady

In the evocative setting of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, a musical theater classic based on George Bernard Shaw's opera Pygmalion is performed. Celebrated by cinema with the film directed by George Cukor and starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, the story tells the story of cynical phonetics professor Henry Higgins who accepts a challenge to transform the uncouth and uneducated flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a refined socialite. Featuring the orchestra, chorus, and ballet company of the Teatro di San Carlo.

Date: from the 6 to the 14 February 2018
Price tickets: from 20 to 150 euro

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La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi 's famous three-act opera, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, is based on La Dame aux Camélias , a novel written by Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired by his brief affair, in his twenties, with Marie Duplessis, one of the most refined and desirable courtesans in Paris. The operatic version of La Traviata tells the love story between Violetta Valéry and Alfredo Germont. This new production at the Teatro di San Carlo is conducted by Lorenzo Amato, with the orchestra, chorus, and ballet company of the Teatro di San Carlo.

Date: from the 6 to the 14 February 2018
Price tickets: from 20 to 150 euro

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Toledo Gallery

The Embers

A performance written and directed by Laura Angiulli, based on the 1942 novel by Hungarian author Sándor Márai , titled Le Embers – The Candles Burn to the End . The play is set during the transition marked by the First World War. Its characters, the soldier Henrik, characterized by honor, pride, and discipline, and the fugitive Konrad, with his melancholic artistic temperament as a poet, reflect the decadent values ​​of the late nineteenth century. In a profound reflection on the meaning of life, expressed in the questions: "Should we be true to ourselves or respectful of others? The meaning of life lies in the bond of love that unites us to someone. The disenchantment of the answer makes it impossible for wounds to heal. But it allows us to die at peace."

Date: from the 16 to the 25 February 2018
Price tickets: from 10 to 15 euro

Information on times and tickets for the Le Braci show

New Health Theater

Soulbook

The young director, actress, and writer Fabiana Fazio brings to the stage a play that explores the contemporary world through one of its darkest and most ambiguous aspects: the disconnection from reality through new technologies. Specifically, it focuses on Soulbook, a new virtual dimension in which we all exist, where we can find answers to all our questions, but where, to exist, we must lapse into real life. To the point of confusing our very identity with that of Soulbook.

Date: from the 23 to the 25 February 2018
Price tickets: 12 €

Information on times and tickets for the Soulbook show