with Compagnia gli Alberi di canto Teatro
original music and elaborations Mimmo Napolitano
scenes Nicola Rubertelli
costumes Marianna Carbone
light designer Guido Levi
production Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia
in collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
World premiere
Language italian
Contry Italia
running time: 1h 20min
Venue Museo Nazionale di Pietrarsa (Arena)
Dates
10/06/2013 ore 21:30
11/06/2013 ore 21:30
A symphony orchestra imprisoned for a strike against the British crown and a group of street musicians arrested for begging face off to the sound of music in the prisons of Newgate in London. This is Il maestro di cappella dei mendicanti, a work that moves from The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay and the Maestro di Cappella by Domenico Cimarosa, two sarcastic and ironic parodies of musical theater, fused and re-elaborated by Mariano Bauduin. The result is a scrathing consideration of the cultural degradation, whose dramaturgy reworks the old materials in a modern way, to emphasize that the theme, the arrogance of power towards the culture, is timeless, eternal and present.
Mariano Bauduin says «we decided to travel across diverse musical genres from different times, as if we were telling our personal Marat-Sade or our Threepenny Opera, or the terrible Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: in short, from Baroque opera to comedy to music going
