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Photographs of Maggio 'Eronte', by Giuseppe Coltelii, performed by the compagnia Piazza al Serchio at Gragnanella (LU) 19/7/1992. The Piazza al Serchio company performed regularly throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in the maggio series sponsored by the Centro Tradizioni Popolari della Provincia di Lucca. The text is based on chivalrous themes, and some of its history is traced in Barwick, L. (1994). The Filipino Komedya and the Italian Maggio: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Related Genres of Popular Music Theatre. In A. M. Gibbs (Ed.), Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts (pp. 71-108). Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities. The same company and text also performed at Agliano LB2-92PIX06, and Varliano LB2-92PIX07
Performers:
Eronte - re di Armenia - Luciano Tramontana
Fidalma - sua sorella - Barbara Bertolucci
Ernesto - fido del re - Andrea Bertei
Arcario - soldato - Silvano Fontanini
Re della Siria - Andrea Pietrini
Leonide - sua figlia - Iole Paladini
Adelmo - nipote del re - Giuseppe Malaspina
Florindo - nipote del re - Mariano Giannetti
Nildo - soldato - Leo Sarteschi
Leonetto - figlio di Leonide e di Eronte - Mariano Giannetti
suggeritore - Ferdinando Mori
violinista - Alfredo Redenti
fisarmonica - Giorgio Ennio
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