found: Work cat.: 2003485385: Sceneggiata : rappresentazioni di un genere popolare, 2002.
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 9, 2006:Music of Naples page (Extremely popular in Naples is the local stage musical form called the Sceneggiata, started shortly after WWI) Mar. 14, 2013 (Sceneggiata. The sceneggiata (pl. sceneggiate) or sceneggiata napoletana is a form of musical drama typical of Naples. Beginning as a form of musical theatre after World War I, it was also adapted for cinema; The sceneggiata can be roughly described as a "musical soap opera", where action and dialogue are interspersed with Neapolitan songs. Plots revolve around melodramatic themes drawing from the Neapolitan culture and tradition, including passion, jealousy, betrayal, personal deceit and treachery, honor, vengeance, and life in the world of petty crime. Songs and dialogue were originally in Neapolitan dialect, although, especially in filmic production, Italian has sometimes been preferred, to reach a larger audience. Outside Italy, sceneggiata is mostly known in areas populated by Italian immigrants. Besides Naples, the second homeland of sceneggiata is probably Little Italy in New York City.) Neapolitan version of Sceneggiata page (Sceneggiata napulitana)
found: Dizionario dell'opera WWW site, Nov. 9, 2006(sceneggiata, theatrical genre that flourished in Naples between the wars, which alternated song and spoken drama)
found: Wissner, R.A. All of Mulberry Street is a stage : representations of the Italian immigrant experience through community theater performances of the Italian-American sceneggiata, via WWW, Mar. 14, 2013:p. 1 (During the rise of Italian immigration to the United States between 1870 and 1930, the sceneggiata, a musical theater genre popular in Naples, began its tenure in the theaters located within predominantly Italian neighborhoods of the United States. The sceneggiata revolved around specific Neapolitan songs and was one of the few types of entertainment available to Italian-American immigrants in their new homeland.)
found: Around Naples encyclopedia, via WWW, Mar. 14, 2013:The Sceneggiata (Operetta, musicals, musical comedy, light opera, comedy opera--all of these terms have been used at times in English since the early 1800s to describe a form of musical theater in which there is spoken dialogue as well as music; this, as opposed to simply "opera", in which even lines of dialogue are sung, or at least talk--sung as recitativo. ... There are many local, regional versions of this kind of musical theater. In Naples, it is called the sceneggiata. It is always sung and spoken in Neapolitan dialect and generally revolves around domestic grief, the agony of leaving home, personal deceit and treachery, betrayal in love, and life in the world of petty crime. The sceneggiata started shortly after WWI, was extremely popular in the 1920s, faded, but has been enjoying somewhat of a comeback with newer generations of performers since the 1960s. It is, today, extremely popular in small theaters and on local television. ... In the sceneggiata, a song is written and the theme is so potentially dramatic that writers then decide to weave a plot around the song--basically, something for actors to do until the main song comes along. The result is perhaps the same: the individual song tends to outlive the larger dramatic framework.)
notfound: New Grove, 2nd ed.;Garland encyc. of world music;Dizionario della musica e dei musicisti
