Santospago, for the first time in history in three operas at the Greek Theater of Syracuse

(from the correspondent Enzo Bonaiuto) “I am the first in the history of theater to interpret three roles in three operas that take place in the same cycle of classical shows at the Greek Theater of Syracuse: I can say that I have beaten the record, which was stopped at two with Luca Ronconi as director of both “. This is what the actor Stefano Santospago, protagonist in the season of the Inda, the National Institute of Ancient Drama directed by the superintendent Antonio Calbi, is amused to underline at AdnKronos, in Euripides’ Baccanti with the direction of Carlus Padrissa, in ‘Coefore-Eumenidi’ by Aeschylus directed by Davide Livermore – who will be attended by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella on 19 July – and from August also in ‘Nuvole’ by Aristophanes directed by Antonio Calenda. On stage, every evening without solution of continuity and for three different directors: a not indifferent actor’s rehearsal … “Now I act alternately in ‘Baccanti’ and in ‘Coefore-Eumenidi’ from eight in the evening to eleven and in the morning I the rehearsals of ‘Nuvole’, which will then be moved from midnight to two in the morning: we hope to avoid the risk of entering with a line of one performance in another … so far I have succeeded! “, Santospago jokes. adiuvandum ‘, there are three directions by three very different directors. “Exactly, there is nothing more different between one and the other and in this sense the professional and artistic stimulus is immense – affirms the ‘triple’ actor – I am not professionally categorized in a genre or in a sector : I acted in musical comedies at the Sistina as in Pasolini’s ‘Orgia’ or in Ronconi’s tragedies in Syracuse. Moving between different modules and languages ​​is really stimulating for an actor, even if tiring “. In this sense, this season at the theater Greek “there are three directions that speak three different theatrical languages. Padrissa is very interested in the general composition of the show and the interaction between the elements it assembles, causing a strong emotional effect in the audience. Livermore is a director who instead works a lot on acting and on an organic relationship between text and space, with overlapping levels of reading. Calenda has an incredible vitality and a vast knowledge of Greek literature, with a tradition of recovering the classical culture “. And then, the thrill of acting at sunset in the Greek theater of Syracuse, looking the audience in the eye …” It is truly an emotion and a unique professional and artistic challenge. At the beginning – he confesses – whoever comes to act here for the first time is faced with a frightening situation, but then the strong desire is to go back to acting, because a crazy energy is released, where fear and strength coexist happily: it is truly a magical space “.