Last week before the opening !

Lost between strings and trees...

photo : Raffaella Gardon

EURIDICE E ORFEO
 
BY VALERIA PARRELLA

WITH MICHELE RIONDINO, FEDERICA FRACASSI, DAVIDE COMPAGNONE, RAFFAELLA GARDON  
LIVE MUSIC GUIDO SODO, RAFFAELLA GARDON  
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN TIZIANO FARIO  
ORIGINAL MUSIC GUIDO SODO  
DIRECTED BY DAVIDE IODICE  
PRODUCTION FONDAZIONE TEATRO DI NAPOLI

DATES 23, 24 JUNE (H. 21.30)  
VENUE TEATRO BELLINI  
RUNNING TIME 1H 30MIN  
LANGUAGE ITALIAN

Valeria Parrella has elaborated the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with a contemporary key; a new production to be directed by Davide Iodice. In her notes, the author writes: «Gluck, Anouilh, Cocteau, but also Bufalino, and Pavese: each of these authors has given a different explanation why Orpheus turned to look at Eurydice when leaving the underworld. Rilke’s words on this theme, perhaps inspired by a bas-relief here in Naples in the archaeological Museum, are also moving. Respexit is the verb traditionally used (by Virgil in Eclogues and Ovid in The Metamorphoses), a verb that has no equivalent in Italian as it means “to turn around”, but also embodies the root “respectum”, pertaining to respect. Thus, I also give my respect to this gesture, just like that bas-relief in which Hermes appears together with Eurydice and Orpheus. I wrote a novel which then became theatrical text. A story which is not real, but more oriented towards the philosophy and psychology of loss, and coming to terms with death. This text has three voices, but many other view-points».


http://www.napoliteatrofestival.it/2015-edition/euridice-e-orfeo-en/