LA SCIANTOSA

written by Vincenzo Incenzo

set design Gianni Quaranta
arrangiaments Massimo Idà
lighting designer Claudio Zamarion
costumes Gianni Sapone
assistant to set designer Luciano Ceglia

on stage Alessandro Urso

production Engage

thanks to Angelo Fabbrini Pianoforti - Pescara for the invaluable support

Capinera (1918)

Palomm ’e notte (1906)

Popolo-pò (1917)

Fenesta vascia (1825)

Lily Kangy (1905)

I’ te vurria vasà (1900)

Guapparia (1911)

Come facette mammeta (1906)

Santa Lucia luntana (1919)

Ninì tirabusciò (1911)

’O surdato ’nnamurato (1915)

Mandulinata a Napule

’A tazza ’e cafè (1918)

Chiove (1923)

Ninì tirabusciò
(restart) (1911)

Serena Autieri and her musicians reread Elvira Donnarumma, called "a blackcap napulitana" undisputed queen of the cafè chantants of the early 1900s, nonconformist and anti-diva, loved by Eleonora Duse and Matilde Serao.

From the most popular and enthralling songs, such as’ A tazz’ e cafè and Comme facette mammeta, to passionate immortal classics as I’ te vurria vasà and Reginella, up to hidden pearls like Suonne sunnate, Io ’na chitarra e ’a luna, Canzone a Chiarastella, today listenable only with a horn gramophone, Serena Autieri enters the venues and codes of caffè concertos and variety, an actual dividing line between the music of Naples of the past, and that of the future with significant research and revaluation into the repertoire of the early 1900s, before the Belle Epoque songs give way to the patriotic hymn with Italy’s entry into war.

Between a "movement", a recited rhyme and a tear, we find those poetic and melodic nineteenth century roots and those Arab, Saracen, American scents which Naples, crossroads of local references and stimuli from every latitude, has ruminated and given back to the world in its unmistakable cypher.