Neapolis Ensemble - Lo guarracino

Salle Nougaro, Toulouse (France, 20/11/07)

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From its foundation the Neapolis Ensemble has played in very prestigious events in more than 15 countries, like the Festival d’Ile-de-de France, the Festival de Saint-Chartier, the Festival International de Musique de Besançon, the Opera Theatre of Lilla, the National Theatre of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the National Theatre of La Rochelle, the National Theatre of Forbach (France), the Montserrat’s Abbey (Spain), the Kõln Philharmonie, the Radialsystem V in Berlin, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci (Germany), the Flanders Festival of Bruges (Belgium), the FolkClub in Turin, the Musical Weeks in Merano (Italy), the Coliseo Theatre in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Teatro Oriente in Santiago (Cile), the University Cultural Centre in Mexico City (Mexico), the Ballroom Radisson in Montevideo (Uruguay), the Palaces Festival of Saint-Petersbourg (Russia), the Eesti Concert Hall of Tallinn (Estonia).

In october 2006 the band published the record, Napoli, an ambitious project about the history of the southern Italy’s capital, represented through 11 pieces that go from 1200 to 1977. The record, that contains the pictures of the fantastic French artist Ernest Pignon, it’s been published by Calliope and ditributed worldwide by Harmonia Mundi. The International Press has been positively impressed by this record and it’s a matter of fact that it has scored the highest ranking in the classical music’s chart.

Neapolis has taken part to a lot of radio programmes like Radio France, in the presence of the great african musician Manu Dibango ; Radiouno, Klara Radio, Catalunya Radio.