Italiano
The theater world is in mourning. And Naples, after Pino Daniele, loses another great interpreter of “Neapolitan” in the world. Luca De Filippo died this afternoon in his home in Rome. The actor and director was 67 years old (he was born in Rome on 3 June 1948), and was the son of the great Eduardo (whose work had always dedicated) and his first wife, the singer and actress of Turin Thea Prandi. Luca had recently stopped reruns of “Non ti pago” at the Teatro Augusteo in Naples. He moved with a stick and the public had been able to notice her signs of fatigue. In Milan replicas theater Strehler had not been interrupted, but his place in the company, in the title role of Don Ferdinand Quagliolo, had been taken from Gianfelice Imparato. Heir to the great Eduardo, Luca trod for the first time on stage in just 7 years, in 1955, in the role of Peppeniello in “Miseria e Nobiltà” by Eduardo Scarpetta (his famous joke “Vicienze m’è padre a me“) . By the age of twenty, he starred with his father, both in theater and in television reductions in numerous comedies Edwardian. In his career he has also signed the royal opera and participated in TV dramas, working with, among others, with Wertmuller (once next to Sophia Loren), Squitieri, Castellitto, Muccino. He and his father had worked from 1969 to 1980, and then these, another two, three years, signed the royal of his shows. “I do not have to get rid of ghosts – responded to those who questioned him on his relationship with Eduardo – We had our quarrels. But having him next was a privilege of which I am proud, as I belong to a family that makes theater three generations”. “Must spend the night” said Eduardo in neapolitan language, but this time for Luca will not go more and you will feel the lack of his and his company, became an appointment loved and anticipated each season by audiences across Italy.
