È Tempo di Miracoli e Canzoni
Translated from the Italian. Titles, names, venues and press headlines are kept as originally published.
ALESSANDRO HABER andROCCO PAPALEO
in
È TEMPO DI MIRACOLI E CANZONI
byGIOVANNI VERONESI and ROCCO PAPALEO
orchestra
Sasà Flauto guitar
Giovanna Famulari violoncello
Gianluca Mirra batteria
Carlos Sarmiento piano
Luigi Sigillo contrabbasso
allestimento scenico
BRUNO BUONINCONTRI
lighting design
GIANNI NETTI
musical director
SASÀ FLAUTO
production photos
ORESTE LANZETTA
assistant director
FELICE PANICO
directed by
GIOVANNI VERONESI
working on a stage text for the first time. A brand-new show led by two exceptional performers – Alessandro Haber and Rocco Papaleo – and by Giovanni Veronesi, directing for the theatre for the first time. The artistic meeting of two actors much loved by audiences and critics, here as singer-songwriters. Music and words for two extraordinary Italian performers.
Two exceptional artists, two stage and screen actors loved by audiences and critics, but also two talented singer-songwriters: Alessandro Haber, on his third album, and Rocco Papaleo, winner of the last edition of the Festival Gaber, bring to Italian stages a brand-new show, the sum of the many successful musical-theatrical experiments they have staged in their years of working together.
“È tempo di miracoli e canzoni” is a concert but, above all, a story that gives voice to their love of music. It is from this passion, and from an irrepressible urge to sing, that the performance takes on the uniqueness of a concert and the creative imagination typical of the theatre. “It's an unusual show,” says Giovanni Veronesi, “mixing a bit of drama, a bit of cabaret and live music.” The two actors will let their emotions go, guided by a musical path that takes them on a journey through their memories, their history and their careers.
Written by Papaleo himself with Giovanni Veronesi, the show features the two Italian performers as 'singing actors', accompanied by a group of fine musicians, to chat, shout, tell stories, move and be moved, with the aim of communicating through music. Haber will duet with the band in his unmistakable voice, drawing the audience into classics of Italian songwriting made his own through original arrangements. Papaleo will accompany him with his own ironic compositions and some previously unreleased songs.
Haber and Papaleo will take us by the hand and seat us on their 'coach' of songs, memories and dreams, on a journey that is perhaps not only theirs.
Director's notes
It's an unusual show that mixes a bit of drama, a bit of cabaret and live music. I was fascinated by working on something so hybrid and so mixed.
I would never have directed a classic text, nor would I ever have sat down to write a proper play myself. “È tempo di miracoli e canzoni”, instead, was a kind of work in progress.
Together with Haber and Papaleo we invented the text and wrote it on the spot, and this new way of working fascinated me: improvising, having room for improvisation on a written text – that, in my opinion, is what theatre really is. It's working on improvisation, trying to make the actors understand that they mustn't just respond to the other's line, but try to think they can answer something different every night.
I really envy both Haber and Papaleo, because this is a show in motion, evolving from one performance to the next. Paradoxically, the audience could always be the same and never get bored: they would see a different show every night.
Giovanni Veronesi
LO SPETTACOLO VISTO DAI DUE PROTAGONISTI
“I'd like to be a driver of songs by profession, so that if someone asks me 'what do you do?', I answer 'I drive songs'. Of course I'm a learner driver, one who doesn't check the rear-view mirror before setting off – probably crashes – but then, danger averted, off we go, off towards something, though not a real place, because you can live in that place but you can't photograph it: it's the place where all songs go, even the bad ones, the unfinished ones, the hummed ones, all of them…”
Alessandro Haber
“I'm doing this show because one day my son, on his first plane journey, looking out of the window, said to me: 'The world seen from up here looks like a big toy… that belongs to nobody.'”
Rocco Papaleo. Photographs are free of publication rights for press use. Please always credit the photographer: ph. Oreste Lanzetta
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