Between song and theatre — Interview with Lalla Esposito
The voice of this interview
Lalla Esposito
- Profession
- Actress and singer
- Country of origin
- Naples, Campania, Italy
Lalla Esposito, actress and singer, is at the heart of this conversation on the theme: between song and theater. The dialogue retraces experiences, choices and reflections that emerged during the interview, leaving room for the guest’s voice.
Music and words
What journey will be what you will play with the music of Nino Rota?
Esposito: “It will be a dreamy journey because Nino Rota was the magic friend of Fellini. Fellini is my dream. Maybe those dreams that we never dare to do.”
Would you have liked to play a role in a Fellini movie?
Esposito: Sure. The Nights of Cabiria
Alessandro how does it feel to play next to a beautiful artist like Lalla?
Esposito: “Lalla was a beautiful discovery. So for me it is a dream as well as a pleasure to accompany her to the piano”.
“I infinitely thank Lalla Esposito for having honored the world of Italian cinema the true and pure, especially that of Fellini and I wish her to continue, with her beautiful art, to make us dream again and remember”
What work did you find difficult to manage your role?
Esposito: “The role of Teresa Sorrentino, my penultimate theatrical show. A monologue of a woman who could interact with visionary people. So I happened to talk, acting at the same time with 20 people so it was very tiring. Also because this show has happened in a not easy period of my life”.
The cinema and its stories
What's the director you've learned more from? What did she teach you to become a great actress?
Esposito: Armando Pugliese with whom I made Masaniello and the Spoleto Festival. He really taught me the sense of the body
Alessandro for which other actors or actresses you played/accompanied in addition to Lalla?
Esposito: Yes before Lalla I accompanied the floor for many shows Gloriana
“Even because this show happened in an uneasy period of my life”
Nino Rota was a great music composer. Who would you like to make a song for yourself?
Esposito: Alexander first. Then Ivano Fossati
What qualities a theater actor must have in order to be considered such?
Esposito: Health, patience and talent
The path and ideas
Lalla, with whom do you dream to duet in the next events?
Esposito: “With Massimo Masiello at the Cortese ai Colli Aminei theatre on weekend 31-2. It will be a show on the humorous songs on the stains of the 1920s, texts that treat men's battles against women".
What are your future projects?
Esposito: One in particular to resume the show “Festa al Celeste nubile sanctuary” with Enzo Moscato made at the Teatro Stabile di Napoli several months ago
MARCO STILETTI
NOTE OF DIRETTRICE:
I thank Lalla Esposito infinitely for having honored the world of Italian cinema the true and pure, especially that of Fellini and I wish her to continue, with her beautiful art, to make us dream again remember
