RAPUNZEL
crazy baroque neapolitan tales…
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TRAILER
THE
Show
Rapunzel is Margherita Pupulin’s first educational show, created with the aim of of completing the range of Il Violino Fantastico’s recitals and reaching out to young audiences with baroque music.
It brings to the stage some baroque neapolitan tales, performed by an actress and two musicians, who act and mime at the same time as they play! The result is a funny mishmash of roles, costumes, stories, that also includes audience participation, both of adults and children.
THE
Tales
Few people know that some of the world’s best-known fairy tales (Rapunzel, Cinderella, Puss in Boots) were invented by a witty writer from 17th century Naples.
Giambattista Basile’s Lo Cunto de li cunti (“the tale of tales”), published between 1634 and 1636, is a collection of 50 extraordinary, humorous and lively fairy tales, which were to inspire Perrault, the Grimm brothers and many others.
THE
Music
The program includes some of the most famous tunes of 17th century Italy (La suave melodia by Andrea Falconieri, Folle è ben chi si crede by Claudio Monteverdi…) and then chaconas, gallardas, passacaglias from all over the peninsula. Not to mention a colorful Neapolitan tarantella of the period!
ABOUT
ME
Margherita Pupulin
Born into a family of musicians, Margherita has followed a multifaceted musical path since her childhood. From baroque violin (which she studied with Riccardo Minasi, Pablo Valetti and Fabio Biondi, among others), to traditional music (mainly South American), Margherita’s sound universe has been enriched by a long experience within the ensemble La Chimera (from 2011 to the present day), which focuses on the fusion of ancient and popular music, with a good part of improvisation.
After having the opportunity, from 2014 to 2018, to travel around France and England as part of Irina Brook’s Peer Gynt show, both as a violinist and as an actress, her approach to music and musical interpretation has radically changed. Her artistic research now focuses on multidisciplinary performances and experimentation with new ways of conveying music and concepts, including staged concerts and original theatrical creations.
She is regularly invited as solo violinist, chamber or orchestral musician by ensembles such as l’Arpeggiata (dir. Christina Pluhar), Café Zimmermann (dir. Pablo Valetti and Céline Frisch), La Chimera (dir. Eduardo Egüez), Pulcinella (dir. Ophelie Gaillard), I Gemelli (dir Emiliano Gonzalez Toro), with which he has performed in the main European halls and Festivals (Bozar Bruxelles, Salle Gaveau, Barbican Centre London, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Radio France, Concertgebouw Bruges, Auditorium de Lyon…).
With her recitals project Il Violino Fantastico she has been invited to relevant institutions such as the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, the Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza, the Pietà dei Turchini Foundation in Naples, the Pergolesi Theatre in Jesi among others.
Her first theatrical creation, Il Palazzo di Atlante, featuring 9 musicians, an actor and a dancer, was premiered at the Namur Music Festival (Belgium) in July 2022.
The piece (written and directed by Margherita) is a free and contemporary reinterpretation of Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly, an open questioning of the value of irrational, dream and mystery, challenging the very contemporary cult of control and rationalization.
