How to introduce fascinating but little known archaeological sites to the general public? With live shows: that’s why the Theaters of Stone network, active for over twenty years in the enhancement of a very rich heritage, proposes for this summer over one hundred appointments that will bring on the scenes of sixteen archaeological sites in Italy (from Tuscany to Lazio, from Campania to Sicily, passing through Basilicata) theater, music and dance performances.
It starts on Friday 25 June in the area of archeological museum of villa Ferrajoli in Albano Laziale, in the province of Rome; they begin instead Thursday 8 July the shows at the amphitheater of Sutri, not far from Viterbo, while Saturday 10 is the turn of the Roman theater of Volterra. But scheduled (until the end of September) there are also shows, among others, in Modica, Pantelleria, Teano, Milazzo and Caltanissetta.
Aurelio Gatti, director of the Teatri di Pietra network, explains: “Today as twenty years ago, Teatri di Pietra expresses a planning aimed at restore dignity to the live show and its workers: the Network has rediscovered and legitimized places of extraordinary beauty and historical value, whose relevance had often been overlooked by administrations, politics and tourism operators. It all started in the province of Caserta at the Campano Amphitheater, from which the Spartacus revolt was born, located just three kilometers from the Royal Palace and yet unknown to the citizens themselves. And then afterwards we entered Teano, Calvi Risorta, Sessa Aurunca, up to the Imperial Villa of Pausilypon in Naples; these the first sites were opened and inaugurated with a program entirely dedicated to the themes of the Mediterranean and classical culture “.
This year the calendar brings together different productions, from the story of Daphne, taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ai Infiniti Mondi by Giordano Bruno, from the Dyskolos (the grumpy) of Menandrianus to the Journey of the Meschino of Gesualdo Bufalino, and then again Plautus e i Carmina Burana, Dante and Medea, Bach and Jazz, Socrates and Novecento by Alessandro Baricco.
The calendar
Albano Laziale (RM) – Civic Museum, from 25 June to 4 July
Sutri (VT) – Amphitheater, from 8 July to 5 August
Volterra (PI) – Roman Theater, from 10 July to 13 August
Santa Maria Capua Vetere (CE) – Amphitheater Campano, from 15 to 30 July
Teano (CE) – United States Roman Teanam Sidicium dal 17 July to 6 August
Maddaloni (CE) – Archaeological Museum of Calatia, from 18 to 25 July
Palazzolo Acreide (SR) – Akrai Ancient Theater, from July 17th to August 6th
Cattolica Eraclea (AG) – Eraclea Minoa archeology area, from 30 July to 25 August
Modica (RG) – Church and cloister of Santa Maria del Gesù, from 22 July to 6 August
Caltanissetta (CL) – Palmintelli Archaeological Park, from 28 July to 26 August
Pantelleria (TP) – Punta Spadillo, from 18 August to 22 September
Marsala (TP) – Lilibeo Archaeological Park, from 18 July to 16 August
Milazzo (ME) – Monumental complex of Milazzo castle, from 17 July to 24 August
Santa Croce Camerina (RG) – Archaeological parks of Kamarina and Cava d’Ispica, from 29 July to 12 August
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