"The Wild Poets of Roberto Bolaño" at the Little Bellini

At Piccolo Bellini from Nov. 11 to 16, 2025, Roberto Bolaño's Wild Poets will be staged . Investigation of Unsavory Citizens. A conference-show in three chapters; text, dramaturgy, translations and narrator Igor Esposito, direction Daniele Russo and Igor Esposito, voice of the poets Daniele Russo, live music Massimo Cordovani, sculptures Carlo De Vita and production Fondazione Teatro di Napoli - Teatro Bellini.

The lecture-show will unfold in three chapters that will take shape on different evenings, forming a single narrative flow, but each chapter can also be heard separately. The staging will have two voices: the narrator embodied by Igor Esposito, the poets' voice embodied by Daniele Russo, and music by Massimo Cordovani.

The third chapter of the performance conference starts again from the tragedy of Latin American dictatorships. Here then, the verses of Raúl Zurita, who through his poetry denounced the horror of the desaparecidos, cannot be missed. In a sudden change of pace, after quoting Borges and Wilcock, we will touch on the ironic and colloquial poetry of Claudio Bertoni. Then it will return to Bolaño's friends: the infrarealist poets Bruno Montané and Mario Santiago. Finally it will traverse the anarchic and aristocratic hell of Osvaldo Lamborghini to close with the love poetry of Uruguayan poet Iris Godoy Rodriguez.

The agreement with Teatro Bellini reserves special conditions for Federico II students and staff to attend some of the shows in the program at reduced prices.