The best theatrical performances in Naples, May 2017
Massimo Ranieri, Biagio Izzo, Alice in Wonderland, La Traviata and many other theatrical performances not to be missed in Naples in May 2017!
Even if in the month of May the theatrical season comes to an end, as always, there are still many shows on stage in the theaters of Naples to be able to attend.
An opportunity to spend the spring evenings that still separate us from the real summer in the company of theatrical art, culture but also relaxation. There is something for everyone: from brilliant and entertaining comedies to ballet, from prose to opera.
We remind you that also in the month of June there will be many theatrical performances not to be missed thanks to the appointments scheduled for the tenth edition of the Naples Theater Festival, the famous Neapolitan event that this year will be inaugurated the 5 June 2017 dal free concert by Franco Battiato in Plebiscito Square.
Here are what they are theatrical performances not to be missed in May 2017 in Naples!
Augustan theater
I dream and I am awake ... traveling
Massimo Ranieri returns to the scene after the successful editions on Raiuno TV. A journey through the most famous Neapolitan songs, stories and some theater pills that will make the spectators dream.
Date: from 13 to 21 May 2017
Price tickets: from 35 to 55 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show I dream and I am awake ... traveling
Teatro Diana
Independent entrance
Serena Autieri e Tosca D'Aquino will be staged at the Diana Theater with a funny comedy written by Maurizio de Giovanni which, through small misunderstandings and moments of hilarity, makes us reflect on the reality of their lives and on the true value of relationships.
Date: from 2 to 21 May 2017
Price tickets: from 17 to 35 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Independent entrance
Happy Auar - Sitcom at the theater
A theater is staged at the Diana Theater theatrical format with aperitif designed to entertain the spectators after work, offering entertainment and during the Italian ritual of the aperitif (hence the “Italianized” name Happy Auar). Also, like sitcoms, this 70-minute theatrical formula brings seriality to the stage, making the audience grow fond and curious about the characters' lives and their stories.
Date: 12 May 2017
Price tickets: 12 €
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Happy Auar
San Ferdinando Theater
Arrevuoto 2017
Twelfth edition of the theater and pedagogy project that operates between the suburbs and the center of Naples with 150 boys and girls.
This year it will be staged "The suicide", a masterpiece of the 900th century written by the Russian Nikolaj Ėrdman and staged for the first time in the Soviet Union in 1928 by Mejerchol'd but, due to Stalinist censorship, only replicated in 1990 after costing its author imprisonment and ostracism. A text that makes us reflect on how we can speculate on the misfortunes of others, such as social injustice or natural disasters, as happens especially in the South.
Date: 6 and 7 May 2017
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Arrevuoto 2017
Politeama
Death of Danton
Mario Martone directs an interesting show taken from the famous masterpiece of Georg Büchner which tells of the last days of the Terror: the fall of Georges Jacques Danton in the 1794 and the antagonism that opposed him to Robespierre. The text is focused on the contrast between the two protagonists of the French Revolution, first companions and adversaries later, both destined to the guillotine a few days apart from each other.
Date: from April to 26 7 May 2017
Price tickets: from 9,50 to 29 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Death of Danton
Teatro San Carlo
La Traviata
"The Traviata" of the great director Ferzan Ozpetek returns to the San Carlo Theater after last autumn's success.
One of the most famous operas taken from the play by Alexandre Dumas "La dame aux camélias ", a melodrama in three acts on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave was personalized and revisited by moving the action to 1910, in an oriental and fascinating Paris thanks to the scenography of the Oscar Prize Dante Ferretti and with an emotional background music, which changes according to the scenes, emphasizing the pathos, pain and sensuality.
Date: from April to 23 5 May 2017
Price tickets: from 28 to 110 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show La Traviata
Alice in Wonderland
Massimo Partenopeo will perform an original ballet inspired by the famous novel by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" based on an original choreography by Gianluca Schiavoni performed by the San Carlo dance troupe. This show was born on the impulse of the National English Ballet which in 1995 commissioned a ballet based on the story of Lewis Carroll to music by Pëtr Il'ič Čajkovskij and Aram Ilich Khachaturian.
An opportunity to immerse yourself in Alice's fantastic world of "wonders".
Date: from 14 to 25 May 2017
Price tickets: from 24 to 95 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Alice in Wonderland
Cilea Theater
Daddy's beautiful
Back to great demand at the Teatro Cilea a funny and hilarious comedy written and directed by Vincenzo Salemme and starring Biagio Izzo in the role of Antonio Mecca, a conservative and fearful man of change who does not want to have children but who, paradoxically, is forced to receive a peer of his age at home who needs to become a child again ...
Date: from 3 to 7 May 2017
Price tickets: from 22 to 33 euros
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Daddy's beautiful
Palapartenope Theater
And here it is ... Pino I teach
Pino I teach brings to the Palapartenope Theater in Naples a comical and entertaining show that tells of a man who, while zapping in a rather bored way, like magic, is catapulted into the television and thus begins a journey between the programs of the 60-70s- 80, their legendary myths, songs, dramas ...
Date: 5 May 2017
Price tickets: from 25 to 30 euro
Information on schedules and tickets on the show And here it is ... Pino I teach
New Health Theater
Peter and Alice through the mirror
What happens when the guy who inspired Peter Pan meets the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland? A story to be discovered by attending this splendid show set in 30s London!
Date: from 12 to 14 May 2017
Price tickets: reservations at 3396666426
Information on schedules and tickets on the show Peter and Alice through the mirror