The Prima di Otello at the San Carlo. A First More Before the others that also has the flavor of redemption after the attack of Le Figaro in Naples

by time news

Superb cast of singers. Otello on stage with all his frailties and his blinding jealousy. With great fanfare First, Second and Third Republics: De Mita, Bassolino and Fico. Governor Vincenzo De Luca and the new mayor Gaetano Manfredi finally arm in arm. A Prima that for Mattarella has the flavor of the Ultima as President of the Republic. Also for this he deserves a standing ovation on the notes of Mameli’s anthem. Between the first and the second act Manfredi isolates himself with The President, at the Mattarella exit: “For now we accentuate one night, but Naples must always be the capital”. Figaro here Figaro there we didn’t talk about it… So as not to spoil the Great Party. The French newspaper had described Naples as a Third World city of Europe. As if their suburbs were better than ours. Exactly, we do not talk about it. Just don’t call them cousins ​​from beyond the Alps anymore, some comments arise from the parterre.

In the audience the star is Toni Servillo, the actor greets the French ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset (“You are a legend”, he tells him): he is expected in Paris on 7 December to present Paolo Sorrentino’s Oscar-nominated film. To do the honors of the house the superintendent of the Neapolitan Massimo, formerly of the Teatro Alla Scala, Stephane Lissner (its 2021/2022 bill is a scream) and the General Manager Emmanuela Spedaliere. The parliamentarian Gennaro Migliore without Maria Elena Boschi anymore (she does not miss her) invited to the previous pre-Covid inauguration. On the balcony sit one hundred university and conservatory students and the students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples engaged as interns of the new “On” platform for a training project on digital crafts.

Jonas Kaufmann, the number one tenor in the world, is the “Moor” without the black face: “I couldn’t do it anymore and I wouldn’t want to do it anymore ”, says Mario Martone, who signs the direction.

And in the center is her, Desdemona in camouflage, an innocent victim. Otello was presented in Prima alla Scala in February 1887. After a century and a half, the condition of women is partly unchanged. “The passing of time reveals to us that no progress stops the brutal drive of too many men to attack women they say they love to the point of killing them “, is the bitter reflection of Martone.

Current, very current. The last drama of jealousy takes place in the same hours as the first, and not far away, in the Vicaria district. In four days, The international day against violence against women. “Perhaps, Desdemona today is no longer passive and fragile but resists”, says Stéphane Lissner ..

The drama of jealousy, triggered by the diabolical personality of Iago, leads to the tragic epilogue that condemns Desdemona and Othello himself, with an inexorable dramaturgical mechanism.

Seven in all the performances of the show that will be staged until December 14th.

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