Monday 24 July and Monday 31 July an original Elizabethan concert with music and words entitled SHAKESPEARE'S SONG will be staged for the first time at the Silvano Toti Globe Theater in Villa Borghese. A journey into the world of the bard through the music and songs that the great author used in his works and which for the occasion will be brought to the stage by the Renaissance ensemble with ancient instruments "Musica Antiqua Latina" directed by Giordano Antonelli. The reading and interpretation will be entrusted to Pamela Villoresi, the dramaturgy to Michele Di Martino and the direction will be curated by Francesco Sala.
The 2017 season of the Silvano Toti Globe Theater – the only Elizabethan theater in Italy, born in 2003 thanks to the commitment of the Capitoline Administration and the Silvano Toti Foundation following a brilliant intuition by Gigi Proietti – is promoted by the Department of Cultural Growth of Rome Capital with the production of Politeama srl and the organization and communication of Zètema Progetto Cultura. The Glober will be active again this year on show nights.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
We will follow a concert that is a journey through the most beautiful texts, the most famous comedies, renowned tragedies such as "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello", "King Lear", "A night's dream of Midsummer", "Twelfth Night", "The Tempest", "Anthony and Cleopatra", up to sonnets and Christopher Marlowe's Dido. Between life and dream, love and memory, poetry and music, a narrator/director will accompany the audience in understanding the texts, in the unfolding of their plot, together with an acrobat dancer, a sort of surreal orderly page boy who will mark the changes of scenes and settings. The costumes are by Susanna Proietti. The instruments played live on stage are: rebec, kemenche, lute and Renaissance guitar, Viola da Gamba, psaltery and percussion. The tenor is Andrès Montilla Acurero.
With this show we want to offer the public a more complete and intense fruition and contact with Shakespeare through the contribution of songs and musical compositions that the great playwright used for his works. One of these was certainly Robert Johnson who composed the incidental music for the Bard and then: William Byrd, Thomas Morley, John Wilson. Here is Langham's review of these legendary Elizabethan tunes: “melodic lines so sweetly voiced, dexterous player; each line rendered by the right instrument, played with perfection and cleanliness; each instrument produced an unsurpassed harmony; all this at nightfall. What joy, what acuity of concept, with what lively pleasure this music pierces the hearts of the spectators. Please imagine it."
