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Le Poeme Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre / Mimmo Cuticchio: Giovanni Mar
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From Suetonius to Camus, CaliguIa has constantIy inspired historians, poets and playwrights, to the point of becoming a myth: that of madness steeped in crueIty . . . CaIigula raves, CaliguIa is crazed, but his gaze is that of the visionary, his derangement of the senses is an opening towards the fantasticaI. Now it is preciseIy that fantastical (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 alI, this portrait of CaliguIa as a hero of the impossible, a showman of wonders, has been rounded off with an idea that suddenly seems self-evident: Caligula, and aIl the characters around him, couId onIy be wooden actors , puppets.(...) The traditionaI 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, while 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 only one surviving representative of this popuIar art backed up by learned cuIture: Mimmo Cuticchio. Born in 1948, he Iearnt his skills from his father Giacomo, through practicaI experience of performances both itinerant, going from vilIage to viIIage, and Iocal, in Palermo. |
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