Teatro Alfeo
Syracuse
The opera dei pupi is a form of entertainment that has strongly characterized the Sicilian popular theater since the early 1800s. This form of popular entertainment was inspired, albeit indirectly, by the figure of the cuntista, a skilled storyteller of the square who, armed with a sword and his own voice, he told stories of a chivalric genre.
Using a decomposed metric, the cuntista created sounds that enchanted an increasingly large audience, who flocked to the squares to hear "u cuntu".
At the beginning of the 1800s, skilled puppeteers were operating throughout the south, who brought stories and characters of popular extraction to the stage. The puppeteers, always attentive to people's tastes, decided to import chivalrous stories into the puppet theater which would soon become the cornerstone of the development of the puppet tradition.
Tickets
Full price €10.00
Reduced price for children* €6.00
*Ages between 3 and 12 years old
Teatro Alfeo
Via della Giudecca, 22
96100 Siracusa
Tel. +39 0931 465540
info@pupari.com