LA SCIANTOSA

Serena Autieri together with her musicians rereads Elvira Donnarumma, known as "'to capinera napulitana," the undisputed queen of the café chantants of the early 1900s, maverick and antidiva, beloved from Eleonora Duse and Matilde Serao.

From the most well-known and engaging songs, such as 'to tazz' e cafè and Comme facette mammeta, to immortal passionate classics such as I' te vurria vasà and Reginella, to to hidden gems such as Suonne sunnate, Io 'na chitarra and 'to luna, Canzone to Chiarastella, today listenable only with the to trumpet gramophone, Serena Autieri enters the places and codes of the café concerto and the variety show, a real watershed between the music of Naples that was and that which was to come, with a significant work of research and revaluation in the repertoire of the early 1900s, before the song of the Belle Epoque gave way to the patriotic anthem with Italy's entry into the war.

Between a "move," a recited rhyme and a tear, one finds those nineteenth-century poetic and melodic roots and those Arab, Saracen, and American scents that Naples, a crossroads of local references and stimuli from from every latitude, has ruminated and returned to the world in its unmistakable cipher.

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