Santa Rosalia in Palermo: puppets, cunti and triunfi for the 400th anniversary of the Festino is the title of the project, supported by Municipality of Palermoconceived byAssociation for the conservation of popular traditions – ETS.
Until July 2nda rich man is expected program of shows and educational meetings that will be of interest the three neighborhoods of Palermo of the Northern Expansion Zone – ZEN; Brancaccio-Ciaculli and Settecannoli, the district of Sferracavallo and the municipalities of Cefalà Diana and Bolognetta.
The program to celebrate Santa Rosalia
TodayTuesday 25 June, L’ZenInsieme Laboratory association will host a double appointment: at 5pm we will start with the meeting U triunfu: between sacred and profane. At 18 will be staged there performance of music, singing and storytelling Triunfu a Santa Rusulia – texts, stories and songs from the one-eyed repertoirewith Arturo Di Natale, Sebastiano Zizzo and Christian Pancaro.
The triumph – traditional devotional celebration of music, singing and narration deeply felt by the peopleor, in the past handed down by ninariddari and by blind storytellers (the so-called blind) – is intertwined here with the narration about Santuzza.
A violinist, a guitarist and a singer-storyteller they will perform the rhagiographic account of Santa Rosalia: the hermitage on Quisquina and Monte Pellegrino, to move on to the story of the plague and the discovery of the bones. Traditional words and music will also narrate the birth and history of the Festinotaking inspiration from the descriptions of Giuseppe Pitrè to close with the famous oneAbballu of the Virginsthe ejaculatory and the Sunata to the compliment.
Thursday 27 Junestill at Zen (in the square between via Antonio Cannatella and via Primo Carnera) space at imeeting with the puppeteer, at 17 and at 18, at the puppet opera show Rosalia’s lifefrom the Brigliadoro Company.
This time it will be Nofrio, a characteristic character of the farce, who will tell the story of Santuzza’s life in a tavern: Fusiddu, another popular character, has never heard of her.
Then begins a passionate narration that will take the viewer to the Royal Palaceto large hunting tripsto the young Rosalia’s refusal to marry to anyone other than Christ, a decision that will lead tohermitage and prayer.
This is how Nofrio ends the story of Rosalia’s life. But before the curtain closes he recalls the story of an old woman, named Geronima La Gattuta, to which, a few centuries later, the Madonna appeared one day. After healing her from malaria, the Virgin asked to go to Mount Pellegrino: she would find the bones of Rosalia Sinibaldi and he should have delivered them to the cardinal Giannettino Doria. From those bones carried in procession, Palermo will begin the journey of deliverance from the plague.
Puppet shows, the daily magic of the Marionette Museum
A magic that repeats itself every day, which knows how to welcome adults and children and which never ceases to amaze with its its immense heritage of stories, tales, characters, twists and turns. A baggage made of ancient wisdomwhich needs to be in order not to be forgotten alive, participated, shared.
On stage, here the daily shows of puppet operas every Monday at 11 And from Tuesday to Saturday at 5pm in Theater room with episodes taken from the timeless History of the paladins of France Of Right I say it.
Get ready to see him burst onto the stage Charlemagne, Orlando and Rinaldo, Angelica, the magician Malagigi and many other characters, who will live together with you wonders and falling in love, duels and battles, mistaken identity, mysterious journeys!
Ticket: 10 euros (full) – 8 euros (reduced)
