MUSSOLINI'S ANGELS

This is the fourth production by Katarzyna Zielińska and a group of her regular collaborators realized on the Nova Stage of the Roma Theater. After the excellent performances “Berlin Four in the Morning”, “Sofia de Magico” and “New York. Prohibition” this time the creators invite us on a journey to fascist Italy of the late 1930s and early 1940s. “Mussolini's Angels” is a dramatic musical story about the fate of the “Trio Lescano” - the most famous Italian vocal trio of those years. The three Leschan sisters, daughters of a Dutch operetta singer of Jewish origin and a Hungarian acrobat, began a spectacular career in Italy in 1935 after their childhood in the circus and continued it during the heyday of fascism — despite their Jewish roots. When their compatriots and neighbors disappeared, taken to Nazi concentration camps, they entertained the Duce himself with their singing. After the war, they tried to create a legend about their arrest and persecution by the fascist authorities. The story of “Trio Lescano” is a moving family drama set against the background of a great story and above all a story about the price that must be paid for romance with power. It is a pretext for questions about whether an artist can, can and should remain independent and whether he should use every opportunity to make a career — especially when tragedy and violence lurk behind the facade of carefree dolce vita.

“MUSSOLINI'S ANGELS” ROMA Music Theatre and Katarzyna Zielińska's GREEN PRODUCTION Agency in Warsaw

screenplay: Robert Urbański, Michał Chński, dir. Łukasz Czuj, stars: Katarzyna ZIELIŃSKA, Ewa PRUS, Barbara KURDEJ-SZATAN, Mariusz OSTROWSKI and a band led by Marcin PARTYKA

(for viewers 16+)