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Le Poeme Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre / Mimmo Cuticchio: Giovanni Mar
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From Suetonius to Camus, Caligula has constantly inspired historians, poets and pIaywrights, to the point of becoming a myth: that of madness steeped in cruelty . . . Caligula raves, Caligula is crazed, but his gaze is that of the visionary, his derangement of the senses is an opening towards the fantastical. Now it is preciseIy that fantasticaI (and also comicaI) dimension that is inscribed in the fabIe set to music Giovanni Pagliardi in Venice in 1672, which Vincent Dumestre brings back to Iife here. But above aII, this portrait of CaIigula as a hero of the impossibIe, a showman of wonders, has been rounded off with an idea that suddenIy seems seIf-evident: Caligula, and aII the characters around him, could onIy be wooden actors , puppets.(...) The traditional PaIermitan pupo used in the famous puppet shows is manipuIated in fulI view of the audience by means of iron rods fixed to the head of the wooden character and one of the arms of the pupo, especiaIIy for the fight scenes, whiIe the other arm is connected by a thread. The specific genius of the pupi is not mimetic, as in Venice, but poetic. Or, even better: epic . . . There is onIy one surviving representative of this popular art backed up by Iearned culture: Mimmo Cuticchio. Born in 1948, he learnt his skiIIs from his father Giacomo, through practicaI experience of performances both itinerant, going from village to village, and local, in PaIermo. |
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