Teatro Due Mondi on tour in Germany with the new show
Teatro Due Mondi theatre company has always been engaged in an artistic research aimed at the creation of a "cultured" and "popular" theatre, rooted in traditions but able to speak a universal language and to reach the most diverse audience at all latitudes, and the creation of street theatre shows is one of the paths that characterize this 'identity'.
The new production Rossini Flambé - Opera buffa in the kitchen is part of this line – a popular art theatre where singing, music, and comedy are ingredients for a "rich dish".
The show debuts abroad in Germany, where it is presented in a tour that will reach Schwerte (July 3), Münster (July 5), Unna (July 7), and Ahlen (July 8).
Like an elaborate recipe, Rossini Flambé blends themes ranging from cooking ingredients to love, from wine to the pleasures of life.
The background is the unlikely and fortunate discovery of a manuscript by young Gioacchino Rossini, lost somewhere in the lands of Romagna, where he lived his youth. The setting is a restaurant, run by two "twin" brothers but absolutely not similar to each other, in which two assistant cooks and a servant also work. The unveiled story takes on tones well suited to the composer's imagination: love, music, cooking ...
Rossini flambé is a show for young and old that tells about Italy and its flavours and sounds, and brings out the passion for life and its pleasures as a characteristic feature of Italian popular culture.
The masks worn by the actors recall another world-famous Italian art – the Commedia dell’Arte –, while from scene to scene, the unbridled cooks draw the audience into a whirlwind of unforeseen situations, skirmishes, spites, culinary disasters, successes and triumphs of taste and pleasure.
The original music and arrangements composed by Antonella Talamonti (Giovanna Marini's historical collaborator) starting from the sounds of opera buffa, alternate with Rossini’s most famous overtures.
Teatro Due Mondi will be back in Germany with Rossini flambé in September, on occasion of the Venezianische Messe in Ludwigsburg.