The last appointments of the twenty-first edition Autumn Festival are dedicated to Naples, to its unique musical soul and to pop music with the long-awaited return of Irene Grandia friend of the event conceived and directed by Antonietta Santacroce.
Supported by the Calabria Region/Calabria Extraordinaria; Chamber of Commerce of Catanzaro, Crotone and Vibo Valentia; Municipality of Catanzaro, Carical Foundation, as well as various private bodies, the Festival will close its programming with some major events dedicated to Neapolitan culture. The 2-day event will open on Wednesday 30 October at 9.00pm at the Politeama Theater with the record-breaking musical “Mare Fuori” directed by Alessandro Siani and inspired by the successful television series which in recent years has captivated millions of spectators not only in Italy but also throughout the world. Rosa Ricci (Maria Esposito), Dobermann (Enrico Tijani), Totò (Antonio Orefice), Micciarella (Giuseppe Pirozzi), Milos (Antonio D’Aquino) are the beloved characters of the TV series that will be on stage in Catanzaro. Nunzia (Carmen Pommella), one of the guards, will also be with them. The singer-songwriter Andrea Sannino is instead among the great surprises of the main cast of the musical. The plot tells that, while the Riccis’ war against the Di Salvos rages outside, inside the juvenile penitentiary institute their respective heirs, Rosa and Carmine, find themselves against each other, but in an inexplicable way between them since a magnetic current immediately begins to flow which soon transforms into a strong and overwhelming feeling.
The following day, October 31st at 9.00 pm, again at the Politeama Theater we will continue with “Accarezzame. Canti d’amore e gelosia”, a tribute to the traditional Neapolitan song with the Brutia Symphony Orchestra directed by the pianist and conductor Francesco Perri with the participation of the singers Antonio Francesco Conti and Giada De Luca. The program includes the most beautiful songs written from the 16th century to today, alternating arrangements and unpublished rewrites of timeless songs by authors from “Fenesta vascia” to “Reginella”, “Era de maggio” and “Malafemmena”.
The concert will be preceded at 6.00 pm in the small church of Sant’Omobono by a meeting with the Catanzaro musician and writer Maria Primerano who through the pages of her book “Pergolesi anima scurdata. Opera buffa” will trace the figure of the composer and organist Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, considered among the greatest musicians of the first half of the 18th century, a leading exponent of the Baroque era and a great representative of the Neapolitan musical school.
On November 3rd there will be Music in the city: it will start at 11 am at the San Giovanni monumental complex with “Aperitif in concert… with Januaria” and continue at 9 pm at the Politeama Theater with “Fiera di me”, the concert event dedicated to the 30 years of career of Irene Grandi.
«The Festival pays particular attention to young people, dedicating them, in addition to matinees and meetings with the artists, also “Mare Fuori”, which will allow them to admire the favorites of the successful television series on stage. The meeting on Pergolesi and funny music and the Accarezzame concert are dedicated to a more adult audience, with the timeless songs that have made Naples famous throughout the world – declared Santacroce – Finally, the XXI Autumn Festival “Music in the city”, a special Sunday dedicated to pop music, with in the morning the new formula of the aperitif in concert with Januaria Carito and in the evening the concert event with Irene Grandi, who, having explored all musical genres from pop in her thirty-year career to jazz, to blues, with contaminations and collaborations with the greatest international performers, such as Pastis, Stewart Copeland, Jovanotti, Stefano Bollani, Vasco Rossi, symbolizes those cultural “Connections” that give the title to the 2024 edition of the festival”.