Music & Theatre

Dramatodía (“acting with singing”) is a company of actors and musicians born in Bologna, founded by Alberto Allegrezza. It revives early theatrical works and explores musical productions to accurately recreate comic performances in 16th and 17th-century Italy. The stagings are made through a study of late Renaissance representational modes and the creation of costumes inspired by coeval iconography.

Over the years, Dramatodía has staged madrigal comedies by Adriano Banchieri and Orazio Vecchi, texts by Giulio Cesare Croce and other seventeenth-century authors, counting prestigious collaborations, such as the one with actor Enrico Bonavera, Harlequin of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro.

The group has performed in Italy and abroad, always enjoying considerable success with audiences and critics, taking its shows to some of the most important Early music festivals: among others, Festival Urbino Musica Antica, Antiqua – Bolzano Festival Bozen, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Grandezze&Meraviglie (Modena), Spazio e Musica (Vicenza), Segni Barocchi, La Voce e il Tempo (Genoa), Trento Musica Antica and Concentus Moraviae (Czech Republic).

The company also took part in the revival of Gli Intermedi della Pellegrina organized by Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, which was staged in the Boboli Gardens – Palazzo Pitti (Florence), directed by Valentino Villa and conducted by maestro Federico Maria Sardelli. A DVD was made of the performance for Dynamic.

Dramatodía’s latest record release is the exhilarating version of Adriano Banchieri’s Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso for Tactus, enriched with texts by Giulio Cesare Croce.