Mauro Gioia’s Conferenza cantata

Pictures from rehearsals and show at ICBSA, Rome, Italy. The Conferenza cantata is a live performance – accompanied by the piano by Giuseppe Burgarella – shaped as sung lecture. It narrates the story of the Neapolitan song and the history of vinyl record reconstructed by writer Antonio Pascale and Neapolitan music historian Anita Pesce. On the wall screen a projections of photos and video from Era d’oro, by Giovanni Ambrosio, a commissioned work between stage photography, documentation, creation and video. With singer Mauro Gioia, pianist Giuseppe Bulgarella, writer Antonio Pascale. The performance has been created to launch the new Portale della canzone Italiana.