{"id":1987,"date":"2021-09-07T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prolocoagrigento.it\/puppet-opera-and-its-creation\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T13:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:06:22","slug":"puppet-opera-and-its-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prolocoagrigento.it\/en\/puppet-opera-and-its-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppet opera and its creation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Puppet opera is strongly linked to the Sicilian tradition, more correctly imported to Sicily from Spanish culture, towards the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. Puppet theatre is a particular type of puppet theatre and falls into the category of “Theatre of Figures”, so in order to stage it it is always necessary for someone to move these figures, or PUPI, as it is more correctly called. The person who moves them is the “Puparo<\/strong>“, who is not only in charge of putting them on stage, but also of the creation of the puppet itself and of the elaboration of the texts that will be put on stage; giving life to a true form of Sicilian tradition. The stories told by the puppeteer come from legends, tales and works handed down by the great writers of Italian literature: from Boiardo to Ariosto and Tasso, or from the great Chansons and jester’s tales of the Kings of France. The names given to each puppet are also taken from these works: Ronaldo, Rinaldo, Angelica, Ruggero, etc. <\/p>\n\n

In Sicily, there are two types of techniques for making these “figures”: the Palermo tradition<\/strong> and the Catania tradition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

PALERMITAN TRADITION:<\/h2>\n\n