DI/BY FEDERICO BUFFA, EMILIO RUSSO, PAOLO FRUSCA, JVAN SICA
CON/WITH FEDERICO BUFFA PIANOFORTE ALESSANDRO NIDI
FISARMONICA/ACCORDION NADIO MARENCO
VOCE/VOCALS CECILIA GRAGNANI
REGIA/DIRECTED BY EMILIO RUSSO, CATERINA SPADARO
DIREZIONE MUSICALE/MUSICAL DIRECTION ALESSANDRO NIDI
COSTUMI/COSTUME DESIGN PAMELA AICARDI
LUCI/LIGHT DESIGN MARIO LOPREVITE
PRODUZIONE/PRODUCTION TIEFFETEATRO MILANO
date/dates 20, 23 giugno/june h 23.00
luogo/venue teatro di san carlo
durata/running time 2h
lingua/language italiano/italian
paese/country italia/italy
in regione/in campania
21 giugno/june h 21.00 teatro verdi (sa)
22 giugno/june h 21.00 teatro gesualdo (av)
24, 25 giugno/june h 21.00 teatro comunale (ce)
The play is set in Berlin in 1936; both Hitler and Goebbels want to transform their Olympic Games – or rather, what they consider as “their” Olympics – into an apotheosis of the Aryan race and the “New Order”. Those Olympic Games, however, were to become a burning torch for equality. On the first day, two black athletes on the podium for the high jump: Cornelius Johnson and Dave Albritton. Jesse Owens went on to win 4 gold medals, two world records and an Olympics record, all documented live by the images of Leni Riefenstahl. Through her creative freedom, she was able to show mankind the extraordinary grimace of disappointment of Hitler at Owen’s third gold.
That same summer of 1936, while the world was silent witness to the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, peace was being eroded in the Rome Berlin Tokyo axis; the Olympics illuminated the sky with a somewhat more incredible story.
