Marco Mengoni brings the complexity of the Greek tragedy on stage and conquers Napoli on his first tour in the stadiums

The beginning of Marco Mengoni’s concert in Naples has an almost epic atmosphere: the singer stands between the heaps of rubble of a destroyed civilization and, like a new messiah, he is preparing to capture his audience. The songs parade, from I really loved you to You know thatand and He becomes an Aedo hypnotic who, as in the Greek tradition, tells his story. In the almost two and a half hours later, Mengoni takes the Classic concept of Greek tragedy and reminds him To offer a show in which the opposites are described: to destruction, the beauty of the rebirth follows which, however, is fragile as a crystal or elusive palace like water, as the scenography suggests behind it. And the same also applies to music: among the moments of introspection, as in Everyone is afraid, The essential or Two livesthe most light -hearted ones are inserted No stress, Crazy music or The Azul house.

The singer, for this tour in the stadiums that began on June 26 by the Maradona of Naples, he decided to be ambitious and to show all his artistic maturity. The show is, in fact, conceptual and divided into documents (Prologue, parodo, episodes, stasimi, exodus and catharsis), each of which introduced by a short monologue in which the artist reflects on himself and society. “Egoism has destroyed our idea of ​​society: thinking about the other as an enemy grows distrust and fear. […] With what courage we complain of those who governs us if we do not go to vote, do not manifest, we do not make ourselves heard? », He says at the beginning of the parodo, unleashing the applause of the public from which, instead, at the end of the concert, saying:” […] We walk over the rubble aware of what they represent: the past from which to start again every time. We are complex, aware, but also fragile glass buildings ». Mengoni knows well that what he is proposing to his fans – exalted by the scenography that change to each act, as well as by the outfits that underline, when needed, strength and vigor or fragility and introspection – it is not that easy and immediate and, in fact, on several occasions It turns to the Neapolitan public by thanking him because he manages to grasp the nuancesemphasizing every step with enthusiasm.

Nicolò Salvatori

If the construction of the show is great, worthy of an international artist, The music, on the other hand, is dry, without frills so that it shows the whole skill of the singer who never misses a note and performs each song perfectly, despite the rearrangements all new in which space has also been given to short segments of cover of successful songs such as Ordinary World of the Duran Duran, Black Hole Sun of the soundgarden or, to stay in Italy, I trust you by Jovanotti. And, it is no coincidence that, At least in this first stage, there have been no guests: Mengoni wanted to test himself, showing that he can manage a One Man Show In which he sings, dances, he enjoys and entertains the public alternating, always in the same logic as oppositions, moments of lightness to others more serious. The singer is in fact the same who, of blue dressed and with smoke bombs in hand, pays homage to the Neapolitan audience by celebrating, together with theirs, the success of the Scudetto, but it is also the one that, wrapped in a flag of Palestine, says: “There is enough in my stop show to this horrible thing that the man continues to do. We continue to make us feel, maybe the message also reaches those cazz’s heads*».

Communicate it

It is no coincidence that To close the show there is Human being: Marco Mengoni greets his audience after sharing with them all his emotions e receiving in return the affection and vibrations of a stadium that sings in unison every song. The singer arrives at the end, cleaned up from the dust of his rubble – the mourning linked to his mother’s death, the criticisms for his looks and the wait that becomes more and more pressing for the release of a new album that has been missing for more than two years – and is finally free. Or, as he sings in this song, “splendid in his fragility” and ready to fill other stadiums.