Chiara Civello's 'Sempre Così' Tour: A Fusion of Music, Poetry, and Cinema

On Wednesday, April 24th (9:00 PM), at the Galleria Toledo of Naples, a permanent theatre of innovation located in the Spanish Quarters and directed by Laura Angiulli, the 'Sempre Così' tour makes its stop. This new and special tour by Chiara Civello comes to life and takes its title from the homonymous track released last October. Composed and written together with Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most sharp and beloved voices of Italian poetry of the second half of the 20th century, the song, started together and finished in 2022 shortly after the poetess's passing, stems from the deep friendship between the two women, delving into nostalgia, emotion, and gratitude. 'Sempre Così' today becomes the name of this new series of concerts that starts not coincidentally on April 5th from Todi (Teatro Nido dell'Aquila), the birthplace of the poetess, and crosses Italy, stopping in Naples on April 24th. The Poetic Constellation designed by Chiara Civello in this new show sees the coexistence of music with poetry and cinema, in a true dialogue between genres, where trails of contemporary authors intertwine with the echo coming from the great pens of the past. The artist, alone on stage and accompanied by a few instruments, piano, guitar, and her unmistakable voice, will enter the different rooms of love that her music has inhabited over the years. Crossings between music poetry and images that propose a dialectical reflection between emptiness and love. The entire performance is realized in collaboration with the French director Céline Sciamma (creator of the awarded 'Tomboy' and 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'). Indeed, the opening curtain on the show will be the viewing of 'This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet', a short film premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival. A journey into the rooms that were Patrizia Cavalli's home and also the momentum that gave the artist the cue to finish the song left incomplete by the poetess. Again, the French director will visually shape and light the different rooms that Chiara Civello will choose to traverse during the live performance. 'I will alternate songs of complete form with moments of pure improvisation, with compositions by poets who revolve around Patrizia, such as Sandro Penna and Emily Dickinson': says Chiara Civello. Alongside them, the figure of contemporary writers such as Emanuele Trevi, co-author with her of 'Perdiamoci' (soundtrack for the RAI TV series 'Imma Tataranni - Substitute Prosecutor'), will also emerge, and the audience will be surprised by original reworkings, two of which are 'What are clouds', born from the encounter between Pasolini and Modugno; or 'Fortissimo', by Lina Wertmuller and Bruno Canfora.