Considered the greatest Italian rocker and, now from more than forty years old, one of the most beloved voices of our songwriting, Edoardo Bennato brings his unmistakable sounds to the Due Mondi stage. For the occasion, he is joined in his usual lineup, by the Quartetto Flegreo, four musicians, whom the singer-songwriter has already used in the past for both "live" and record collaborations, and who do not simply to perform the artist's songs in a classical key, but accompany him and blend with the band, thus uniting classical instruments to rhythmic and electric ones for a memorable sound.

from years, both conscience and fantasy of this country of ours, of Italian music he has been and still remains, a revolutionary: he has taken it, changed it, shaped it to his image and likeness, mixing his folk matrix with 1950s rock'n'roll, with an edgy and ironic vision of reality, borrowing the symbolic language of fairy tales and playing with it, being damn serious. He sang about his personal revolution, but always distanced himself from from all those who would have wanted to pigeonhole him into a definition, a position, a line-up.

The backyard of Bagnoli, on the outskirts of Naples. It is the classic suburban backyard, in an area, the Phlegraean Fields, endowed with immense thermal, archaeological and scenic riches; lots of greenery and even a small island, Nisida, joined to the mainland by an artificial pier. But also with toxic air, an unnatural sky and a sick sea. The big factory, Italsider, has polluted the environment making it as insane, desolate and equivocal as that of a metropolis undone by industrial wars.

That courtyard was Edward's first stage.

It was their mother who indulged the musical aptitudes of Edward, Eugene and George by sending them to lesson from an accordion teacher one summer day.

At that time - in the heart of the 1960s - to the Neapolitan melody of the various Sergio Bruni and Mario Abbate, Edward preferred the sounds of the new America as a boy from New York, London or Milan. The jukebox excited his imagination. Elvis, Paul Anka and Neil Sedaka his idols.

It was 1970, the year in which the first two forty-five records of Edward Marylou and 1941 were released. This was followed about ten months later by the third, Good bye Copenhagen, all recorded for Number One.

In 1973 he released the first among his historic albums, Don't let your arms fall off, which was followed by I buoni e i cattivi, Io che non sono l'Imperatore, and La Torre di Babele, albums perfectly in tune with the climate that was being established, mockingly mocking the Manichean culture of bourgeois respectability and mocking the powerful. Mass success then came with the allegorical retelling of the fairy tales of Pinocchio and Peter Pan in two concept albums, _Burattino senza fili _and Sono solo canzonette.

Edoardo's immense popularity was measured during a triumphant tour that, first among the Italians, saw him land at Milan's S. Siro stadium for a memorable concert in front of to 70,000 people and that later took him back to Europe, with exciting concerts at Zurich's Hallenstadium and Vienna's Prater.

In 1983 came the combined l.p. + mix of E' arrivato un bastimento, an album this time inspired by the fairy tale of the Pied Piper, and the first live album entitled E' goal. In 1985, the release of Kaiwanna marked a turning point in Edoardo's career, which moved decisively toward electronics. This was followed by _O.K. Italy _and the second live album entitled Edoardo.

In 1987 he played at the Apollo Theater in the heart of Harlem to New York.

His love for rock'n'roll permeates the album released in 1989 Abbi dubbi. The same year saw the release of the collection Renegade, an album in which Edoardo reintroduces many songs from his now substantial repertoire in a strictly unplugged key, once again anticipating future trends.

to Twelve years later come out_ E' asciuto pazzo 'o padrone_ and Il paese dei balocchi. In 1993, the anthology video-album Persone Pulite is released, with an ironic title that relates well to the current events of the Italian tangentopoli.

The following year came Se son rose fioriranno, and in 1995 Le ragazze fanno grandi sogni was released. Edoardo's most suffered album, certainly one of the most beautiful.

After two years of intense live activity with the Solis String Quartet, Quartetto d'Archi was born in 1996: a collection of sixteen recorded and rearranged pieces that highlight the particular adaptability of the artist's repertoire in a classical key.

It is called Sbandato, Edoardo Bennato's new CD, processed and recorded between December 97 and April 98 at Megaride studios on Via S. Lucia in the heart of Naples.

In 2000 and 2001, Sembra ieri and Agrarare una stella were released, two splendid collections of Edoardo Bennato's greatest hits, bringing emotions and memories to life as if they were the soundtrack of the last 30 years.

2001 releases the soundtrack for Leonardo Pieraccioni's film The Prince and the Pirate.

In 2003, to almost five years after his last studio album, Edoardo Bennato released a new work of unreleased songs entitled L'Uomo Occidentale.

In December 2003, together with his brother Eugenio, he made the soundtrack for the animated film Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza.

In October 2005, the album La Fantastica Storia del Pifferaio Magico was released. Released by Warner Music, it represents the third episode of a hypothetical trilogy of rock-fables that have made Edoardo one of the most beloved Italian artists ever. This new record has its own unique feature: for the first time ever in Italy, Bennato has managed with the help of 18 great artists who collaborated with him on the project to to create the first Italian opera rock, a project of great artistic depth not only musically but also culturally.

In May 2006 he released the single Midsummer Night written to four hands together with Alex Britti.

In November 2006, after successes in Buenos Aires, Madrid, London and New York for the first time in Italy comes Peter Pan Il Musical, based on James Matthew Barrie's masterpiece: a totally Italian production featuring an exceptional cast of 25 artists, directed by Maurizio Colombi.

In 2010, Le vie del rock sono infinite was released, which broke a from five-year recording silence and saw Bennato return to sounds typical to his style, spontaneous rock and songwriting.

In the same year he performed, along with other great artists, in _Storytellers _at Officine Meccaniche in Milan: an unforgettable evening in which he played and "told his story," giving the audience comments, insights, and anecdotes about his world and the origin of his songs.

In 2011 Edoardo Bennato returned with a new to all rock song: La mia città (My City). The song is dedicated to his Naples and is extremely topical, a true act of love.

Edoardo Bennato is from always a "traveling companion," all the more precious as the years go by because precious remains his point of view, which is that of one who has remained suspended in time, and from his "Isolachenonc è" continues, from time to time, to to send postcards of love and rock to us, who in the meantime have become "grown up." Postcards in the form of songs that still make us turn our heads, and lift our eyes to the horizon, to imagine something different.