Positano Teatro Festival kicks off tomorrow with a tribute to Luca De Filippo, the 22nd edition of the festival.

The opening night of the 22nd edition of the Positano Teatro Festival, directed by Antonella Morea, will take place tomorrow evening, Saturday, July 26th, in Piazza dei Racconti. The show, "Si te parlo me parlo...", is a tribute to Luca De Filippo. "It will be a three-day celebration, not a commemoration of the artists we wanted to honor with this edition," explained Antonella Morea. "The poetry of Eduardo De Filippo, the theatrical visions of his son Luca, the irreverent music of Fred Buscaglione, and the profound research of Roberto De Simone come together in a tale that defies oblivion. In a time of erasure, these shows keep alive the embers of memory, restoring dignity to the traces, roots, and whispers that have made us what we are today." "Si te parlo me parlo...a Luca De Filippo" is a concert recital featuring alternating writings, letters, poems, and sung poems by Eduardo De Filippo, set to music by Maestro Antonio Sinagra, who commissioned it from Eduardo himself. The performance features the virtuosity of actress and singer Lalla Esposito, a beloved figure in Positano, accompanied by acclaimed artist Lello Giulivo and singer Michele Simonelli, accompanied by Ciro Cascino on piano and Alessandro Tumolillo on violin. The evening will be hosted by actress Martina Carpi. "Si te parlo me parlo..." is a tribute to Luca De Filippo from friends who shared the stage with him. What better way to pay homage to the great Neapolitan actor on the tenth anniversary of his death than to use verses and words by his father, Eduardo. Luca said: "...Eduardo De Filippo was naturally a poet, even when he wrote his plays, for his ability to get to the heart of the profound reasons of humanity and express them with the simplicity of a 'classic'. For him, poetry was not a secondary activity, an occasional vacation on the fringes of his major work, but something born from within; it was a page from a diary that freely captured an image, an emotion, a reflection with the poetic musicality that was his own." And Sinagra wrote to Luca: "...In setting his poems to music, inspired also by the 'language' and 'sound of words' that Eduardo adopts, I took into account the Neapolitan tradition but tried to avoid anything that was 'rhetorical' or pure 'color', things that Eduardo himself categorically rejected. Convinced that poetry and music are languages born from the deepest 'I' and in need of expression, I want to imagine that music has encountered Eduardo's poetics both in its strong and immediate emotions and in its intimate and mediated explosions." "Positano, a place of timeless beauty and creativity, carries the memory of three great protagonists of theater and music to future generations: Luca De Filippo, Roberto De Simone, and Fred Buscaglione. These artists lived art to the fullest, with passion and absolute dedication, leaving an indelible mark on our culture," said Mayor Giuseppe Guida. Positano, in fact, along with the three Galli islands, were places long loved by Eduardo and Luca, who looked forward to the summer and "those months of gypsy-like freedom between the rocks and the sea while Eduardo rested, wrote, and entertained guests in a little theater he had built for himself."

The Annibale Ruccello Award ceremony followed, with actress Mariangela D'Abbraccio starring alongside Luca in Napoli Milionaria, directed by Francesco Rosi, and directed by Liliana Cavani, who is a great Filumena Marturano.