Don Camillo & Peppone

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Don Camillo & Peppone is a German-language musical in two acts by Michael Kunze (book and lyrics) and Dario Farino (music). It is based on the novels by Giovannino Guareschi and the film adaptations with Fernandel and Gino Cervi . The musical premiered on April 30, 2016 in the St. Gallen Theater. The Austrian premiere followed on January 27, 2017 at the Ronacher . The first performance in Germany will take place on June 21, 2019 as part of the Tecklenburg 2019 open-air theater .

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Don Camillo is the pastor of Boscaccio when the communist Peppone is elected as the new mayor of Boscaccio. The year is 1947, and the place is a village in the northern Italian Po Valley. In the small village in the Po Valley, a representative dispute is now being fought between the old supporters of fascism and the former partisans. Camillo and Peppone fought side by side in the war against fascism, but Don Camillo regards communism, which Peppone now represents, as an enemy. If necessary, he wants to fight the comrades with the rifle that he has hidden in the sacristy. So they compete against each other: cunning and eloquent one, stubborn and unyielding the other. On Don Camillo's side are the rich landowners and conservative churchgoers, behind Peppone are the poor farm workers and representatives of the “progressive intelligentsia”. As long as the following arguments are only about words, ideas and claims, the dispute will only cause unrest in the locality. But a devastating flood makes it clear that in an emergency one depends on one another, that the unconditional confrontation will plunge the village into misery, that cohesion and cooperation are what is needed now.

But only a young couple in love leads to real rethinking. Gina, the daughter of the landowner Filotti, loves Mariolino, the son of a farm laborer. The classic Romeo and Juliet story follows: two warring families try to prevent their children from connecting with each other. The lovers find no other way out than death together. Fortunately, Don Camillo and Peppone found out in good time that they wanted to go into the water. They alert the residents of the village, and together the village community tracks down the desperate couple at the very last minute. The shock leads to insight. Boscaccio will never entirely belong to either Don Camillo or Peppone. Instead of fighting one another, one will have to come to an understanding and endure one another. The wedding of Gina and Mariolino does not end all the quarrels in the village. But it will be a festival of tolerance that the residents celebrate together. "

Creative team

Book and lyrics music Director Musical supervision & orchestration Stage design Costume design choreography Lighting design Sound design Doll design
Michael Kunze Dario Farina Andreas Gergen Koen Schoots Peter J. Davison Yan Tax Dennis Callahan Michael Grundner Thomas Strebel Stefan Fichert

Cast

Cast World premiere St.Gallen 2016 Occupation Vienna 2017 Occupation Tecklenburg 2019
Old Gina Maya Hakvoort Barbara Tartaglia
Don Camillo Andreas Lichtenberger Thomas Borchert
Peppone Frank Winkels Patrick Stanke
Gina Jaqueline Reinhold Milica Jovanovic
Mariolino Kurosh Abbasi Dominik Hees
Filotti Reinhard Brussmann Kevin Tart
Nonno Walter Andreas Müller Ernst Dieter Suttheimer Sebastian Brandmeir
Brusco Thorsten Tinney Jörg Neubauer
Laura Castelli Femke Soetenga
Maria Patricia Hodell
Cecilia Marja Hennicke
Dottors Dean Welterlen Jan Altenbockum
Voice jesus Marlon Wehmeier Florian Albers
High School Councilor Florian Fetterle
Polini Artemio Michael Souschek

Discography

  • 2017 Don Camillo & Peppone complete photo of Vienna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Petsch: Ronacher, Standstill im Musical-Museum in: Die Presse , January 28, 2017, accessed on August 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Year of Records on the Freilichtbuehne in Westfälische Nachrichten , accessed on September 20, 2018
  3. ^ Musical Vienna - Don Camillo & Peppone. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .