Theater Sannazaro
Built on the area of the ancient cloister of the Spanish Mercenary Fathers, adjoining to the church of Sant'Orsola in the street Chiaia, on project of Fortunate Nicolini to want of Don Giulio Mastrilli duke of Marigliano, the Theater Sannazaro was inaugurated with a " Gran " " Soirée " the December 26 of 1874. In scene" You petite Marquise" of Mehilac with the company Her Roy-Clarence. And from immediately, both for the wealth of the golds and the plasters and for the decorations of the Palliotti that adorned the structure, but, also for the show offered by the nobility all, hastened in a competition of elegant toilettes, sparkling jewels and crews; the Sannazaro was a " Jolie " " bouquet " with the vocation to the tall prose. As to forget the divine Eleonora Duse or Tina Of Lawrence, the greatest interpreter of the works of Roberto Bracco. And it was still in this theater that Eduardo Scarpetta began with his most known" Na Santarella" and that dams voluntarily his long artistic career introducing for the last time to the public in the comedy" Or miedeco of and crazy". But for the theater of street Chiaia Ermete Novelli, Emma Gramatica, Anthony Gandusio, Roger Ruggeri and others great also passed of the scene. After the management of the Duke of Marigliano and that, less fortunate, of the count Luca Cortese, touched to Armando Ardovino risollevare the fates of the most elegant theatrical room in Naples bringing his brothers De Filippo (Eduardo, Titina and Peppino) that they gave life to their Humorous " Theater ". From 1934, for the theater Sannazaro began the slow decadence that brought him to become cinema of doubtful fame. In the 1969 Nino Veglia and Luisa Conte they started the jobs for the restructuring of the theater; a dream, that day after day, with enormous sacrifices, it became reality. Friday November 12 1971 reopen the" bomboniera of street Chiaia", the living room in Naples; the Neapolitan Stable Company of Nino Veglia puts in scene" Annella of Portacapuana", comedy in three actions of Gennaro Di Avino in writer Michele Prisco's reduction. One first unforgettable, on the stage: Ugo Di Alessio, Luisa Conte, Pietro De Vico, Lucy Valeri, Enzo Turco for the regal one of Gennaro Magliulo. The scenes are of Tony Stefanucci, the customs of Maria Consiglio and teacher Eduardo Ensigns' beautiful music. And so, between a success and the other, the theater Sannazaro brings Naples and his culture in the world. To the death of Nino Veglia the management of the theater and the Company stays to Luisa Conte, placed side by side by her daughter Brigida Veglia and from the I produce Mario Sansone, up to its disappearance the January 30 of 1994. From that day Brigida Veglia and Mario Sansone, with their daughters Lara and Ingrid, bring forth the theatrical discourse that, initiated in that distant Saint Stephen of 1874, lands to the recent stamped seasons, as always, to the purest Neapolitan cultural tradition squeezing the eye to bleats reality of some new author. From the season 94/95, the Neapolitan Stable Company, in which Ugo Di Alessio, Enzo Turco, Pietro De Vico, Vittorio Bottone, Michael Abruzzo, Guido Lentini, Memmo Carotenuto, Lucy Valeri, Rossella Comò of drawers, Nino and Charles Taranto, Giacomo Rizzo up, Enzo Cannavale and numerous other protagonists of the Neapolitan scene have served in the military, quotes in the name his founder to which dedication every job, changing in" Neapolitan Stable Company Luisa Conte" directed by the young niece Lara Sansone.