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Roberto Gatto and Danilo Rea with Joseph Lepore

December 3, 2007 Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Produced by KIT in collaboration with Enzo Capua
From the New York Times, Sunday December 2nd, 2007
“DANILO REA/ROBERTO GATTO TRIO (Monday) The pianist Danilo Rea and the drummer Roberto Gatto are two of Italy’s most accomplished jazz musicians, with a shared history stretching back more [...]

TOTÒ’S POETRY IN WORDS AND MUSIC

With & directed by
Laura Caparrotti
With the BIG Neapolitan help of Principe Antonio De Curtis
TOTÒ: There is no opposition between my job – that I adore – and the fact that I am composing songs and sometimes I write melancholic verses as well. I am Neapolitan, and Neapolitans are very good at switching from laugh [...]

Le Macchiette di Eduardo Migliaccio “Farfariello”

KIT – Kairos Italy Theater presents

Le Macchiette di Eduardo Migliaccio
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FARFARIELLO

A theatrical reading by Laura Caparrotti
Neapolitan-born Eduardo Migliaccio (1892-1946), (his stage name Farfariello meant “Little Butterfly”) was one of the most popular and greatest entertainer of Little Italies. He emigrated to the United States in 1897 and got a job in a New York [...]

A Tour In Rome

Living in Rome

A 40 minutes tour of the Eternal City with voices from the past, from the present and from the future…
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray
Visits these eyes, waking at one I cry,
Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me?
And from within a thrilling vice replies,
Thou art in Rome! A [...]

Accattone in Jazz – A Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini

December 4th, 2007 – 9 pm
Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center
165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Plaza Level, NYC
A one-of-a-kind concert/reading based on Accattone’s screenplay

Valerio Mastandrea (voice)
Roberto Gatto (drums)
Danilo Rea (piano)
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s celebrated screenplay for Accattone is revisited by Italian movie star Valerio Mastandrea, as he weaves a unique interplay of words [...]