LAMBERTO LAMBERTINI
NAPLES, 1946. Abandoned his studies of Medicine, he studied as a painter with the master Lucio Del Pezzo, in Paris. Solo exhibitions in many galleries in Italy and abroad. In Rome, he is the graphic designer of Teatro Argentina directed by Luigi Squarzina. With LA JOCONDE by Nazim Hikmet, he makes his debut as a director at the Belli Theatre in Rome. Go back to Naples. In RAI he is the author and re-creator of many radio originals. Together with Peppe Barra and his mother, Concetta, he founded a theatre company in 1982, which travels for twelve years in Italy and around the world, with creations written and directed by him. Concetta dies on stage, the Company is dissolved. He’s dedicated to cinema. After twenty-five years he returns to the theatre together with Peppe Barra.
RADIOPHONIC ORIGINALS (bets of 30 minutes each): Il PRINCIPE DI SANSEVERO (3); PASSEGGIATE PER NAPOLI E CONTORNI (24); TREDICI NOTTI CON SADE (13); AL BALLO CON MARCEL PROUST (7); UNA LETTURA DI CASANOVA (7); DIABOLIK E EVA KANT UNITI NEL BENE E NEL MALE (24); LA BALLATA DEI DONNER (4).
BOOKS: L’OPERA FAVOLOSA PRINCIPE DI SANSEVERO (Colonnese); SONO NATA A PROCIDA, MEMORIA IMPOSSIBILE DI CONCETTA BARRA (Colonnese); BACIARE IL TEMPO, ROMANZO FINO ALLA FINE DI LAMBERTO LAMBERTINI (iemme editions).
THEATRE: PEPPE & BARRA, SCHERZO IN MUSICA IN DUE TEMPI; SENZA MANI E SENZA PIEDI; SEMPRESI, OVVERO IL SEGRETO PER ESSERE FELICI; LA FESTA DEL PRINCIPE; LA CANZONE DI VICENZELLA; LA CANTATA DEI PASTORI; FLIC E FLOC; NERONE E AGRIPPINA; I CAVALLI DI MONSIGNOR PERRELLI.
CINEMA: L’OPERA FAVOLOSA DEL PRINCIPE DI SANSEVERO (Venezia 1984); VRINDAVAN FILM STUDIOS, with Enzo de Caro (Venice 1995); FUOCO SU DI ME, with Omar Sharif (Venezia 2005).
FILM FOR THE RAI: ARTISTI; SIGNORI, IO SONO IL COMICO; NEL REGNO DI PULCINELLA.
FILM FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL: QUESTE COSE VISIBILI, documentary on the city of Naples; DA CAPRERA A CAPRERA filmed in Sardinia, in search of the Garibaldi myth.
FILM FOR THE DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY: IN VIAGGIO CON DANTE, an integral, cinematic reading of the Divine Comedy: 100 films of twelve minutes for every hundred songs, each filmed in a different place in Italy, its voice and direction; POETI ITALIANI: Michelangelo, Foscolo, Leopardi, Carducci, Pascoli, Ungaretti, Pavese, Penna, Campana.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: 120 watercolours, STUDIO VALSECCHI, Milan; A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER, Etrusculudens, Rome; ARGENTUM RUDE RUBRUM TRANSLUCIDUM, Salt Market, Milan; TEMPO RITROVATO, Morra Foundation, Naples; DANTE 100%, Palazzo Firenze, Rome; NOLI ME TANGERE, SpazioNea, Naples.