CAST:
Jessica Pratt (Daria)
Simon Bailey (Procolo)
Christian Senn (Biscroma
Strappaviscere)
Vincenzo Taormina (Agata)
Aurora Tirotta (Luigia)
Leonardo Cortellazzi (Guglielmo)
Asude Karayavuz (Pippetto)
Chae Jun Lim (Cesare
Salzapariglia)
Jong Min Park (Impresario)
Eugeniy Stanimirov (Stage
Manager)
Riccardo Massi (Un ispettore)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Conductor: Marco Guidarini
Staging: Antonio Albanese
Sets: Leila Fteita
Costumes: Elisabetta Gabbioneta
Running time:
2 hrs. plus one intermission
Sung in Italian with English
subtitles
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Viva la Mamma,
or Le convenienze ed
inconvenienze teatrali is a
mad-cap farce about opera singers
behaving badly and stage mothers
behaving even worse! Rehearsals are
underway for the very serious opera
Romolo ed Ersilia, but the
unruly performers, and their even
more unruly egos, prevent any actual
rehearsal from taking place. The
prima donna Daria insists that her
part is too small—even when Luigia,
the seconda donna (the second-most
important soprano), the German Tenor
and the Musician all insist that the
prima donna’s part is far too large.
Luigia’s domineering mother Agata
(the “mamma” of the title) arrives
on the scene, and insists that her
daughter’s part be bigger. Soon the
Tenor and the Musician fume off,
only to be replaced by Agata in the
Musician’s role and Daria’s husband
as the tenor. The stage manager,
impresario and composer are helpless
to quell the raging self-absorbed
demands of the performers, so the
police are called in to stop the
chaos. Rehearsals finally begin, but
are soon interrupted again by the
announcement that the production has
been called off. All of the
performers sneak out of the theatre,
in an effort to avoid having to
repay all the money that has already
been invested in the production.
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