L'uomo rondine

Maurizio Lombardi actor

Giuseppe Scarpato guitar

CONCERTO SOTTO LE STELLE

1920, in a scorching hot summer, the streets of Florence are buzzing with horsedrawn carts, handcarts, swishing skirts, clogs, lovestruck seamstresses, and shouting fruit sellers.

In San Frediano, the crowd fills the city with life between curses and chatter.

Only the attic of the Palazzo on Via Maggio is cool and comfortable. Cradled by the chirping of swallows, two boys meet and immediately clash:

Ettore and Domenico.

The former is the son of the master and the latter is the son of the stableman.

Ettore loves drawing; Domenico has a passion for swallows.

“What’s your name?”

“My name is Ettove... ”

“Ettove? With a V?”

“Noooo Ettove Etto-ve”

“Uh! That’s what I said, Ettove with a V!”

“NOOO! With an... avvv, an avvv... Ettove... ”

“What a cvap name! Hahahahaha

At that moment, a fresh gust of wind sweeps into the attic, mingling with the sound of the swallows and embracing the two lads, making them immortal. The strongest kind of love was born: friendship.

What happens when children play expresses the full perfection of creation – A nest of Art and two souls sharing one heart... ”

August 1945. The heat is scorching. The German troops are pulling back. Bridges are blown apart, Florence is battered and crawling with snipers. In the streets of San Frediano, silence walks hand in hand with death. Two young men are about to cross paths: Ettore, a partisan, and Domenico, a sniper.

Maurizio Lombardi

Maurizio Lombardi was born in Florence in 1973. He began his studies as a teenager under Ugo Chiti. Guided by Gabriella Bartolomei and Franco di Francescantonio, he focused particularly on the body and voice, cultivating a personal approach to using physicality and facial expressions as narrative tools. He completed his education, studying dance and singing. His commitment to quality has led him to fine tune his technique, participating in workshops held by American coach Ivana Chubbuck, in Italy and abroad.Maurizio is now a well-known and versatile international actor, appearing in films, television series, and theatre plays. In 2024 he appeared in: Ripley, a Netflix series directed by Academy Award winner Steve Zaillian, for which he was awarded the Globo D’Oro for portraying Police Inspector Ravini; Citadel: Diana, a series directed by Arnaldo Catinari; M - The Son of the Century, a series directed by Joe Wright; Romeo è Giulietta, a film directed by Giovanni Veronesi, which earned him the Nastro d’Argento as Best Supporting Actor; Il Vangelo secondo Maria, a film directed by Paolo Zucca; Sei nell’Anima, a biopic film on Italian singer Gianna Nannini, directed by Cinzia TH Torrini. Since 2016, Maurizio Lombardi has appeared in the HBO series The Young Pope and The New Pope by Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino, portraying Cardinal Mario Assente. Earlier in his professional career, he acted in many other movies and TV series, such as Il Ragazzo Invisibile 2, directed by Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores, Metti Una Notte starring Amanda Lear, and All The Money In The World directed by Ridley Scott. Maurizio is also a highly active stage actor, having toured extensively both in Italy and abroad. In 2016, Maurizio was runner-up for the Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role in The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell, directed and performed by Luca Zingaretti Maurizio Lombardi is a prolific author and runs his own production company, Velvet 9 Productions, through which he produces and co-produces his works, including: L’uomo Rondine, the monologue Pugni di Zolfo (Fists of SulMaurizio Lombardi 65 In 2024, Maurizio wrote, directed, and produced with his production company – Velvet 9 Productions – the short film Marcello, for which he earned the Rai Cinema and Nastro D’Argento awards in 2025.

Giuseppe Scarpato

Giuseppe Scarpato is a Neapolitan guitarist, producer, and composer born in 1973. He started playing the guitar in the late 1980s, combining his studies in improvisation with a busy schedule of live performances at some of Italy’s top clubs. He has been the guitarist, producer and arranger of Italian singer Edoardo Bennato for 25 years. Since 2009, he has been teaching at the LIZARD Music Academy in Fiesole (Florence) where he holds College Music courses in Rock-Blues guitar and Production/Recording Studio. As a guitarist, his style is rich in influences, ranging from rock, blues, and country to hard rock. In the 1990s, he established the crossover band Hillside Power Trio. The band received extensive recognition for the original sound and participated in numerous events in the rock and motorsports worlds (F1 Milan Festival/Virgin Radio 2018, Misano 2018 SBK, Cous Cous Fest 2019, Verona Motor Bike Expo 2017 only to name a few). In 1998, he produced a multimedia tribute show to the soundtracks of Quentin Tarantino's films, which ran for over 100 performances. The uniqueness of the show piqued the interest of many artists, including the Italian singer Edoardo Bennato, with whom he began a long-standing collaboration. From the 1990s to the present, Scarpato has performed in over 2,000 concerts. It’s no coincidence that he has been the lead guitarist in Edoardo Bennato’s band since 1998. Moreover, in the past 15 years, he has produced and arranged the following albums: “Le vie del rock sono infinite”, “MTV Classic Storytellers”, “Pronti a Salpare” - UNIVERSAL MUSIC, “Burattino Senza Fili 2017” Ed. MONDADORI, “Non c’è” - SONY Music. Since 2002, Scarpato has been one of the guitarists at Notte delle Chitarre, an event that brings together nine of the most renowned guitarists, such as Maurizio Solieri, Ricky Portera, Cesareo, and Radius, who have shaped the sound of Italian songwriters. The album Notte delle Chitarre was released in 2003 and launched with a concert at the Alcatraz in Milan that February. It was produced by Radioitalia/Sonymusic/Targetmusic. In 2010, a special album was released to mark the 10th anniversary of Giuseppe Scarpato 67 In other cases, with unreleased songs, all the guitarists go wild together. Since 2020, he has been part of the Giants of Guitars project with Stef Burns, Luca Colombo, Massimo Varini, to name a few. In 2021, he produced the show Rock in Teatro with Federico Poggipollini and Ricky Portera. In the past few years, he has produced and arranged numerous records for young songwriters, such as Carlo Mercadante, Claudia Megrè, Rodolfo Montuoro, Del Sangre, Humanoalieno, and Demonilla, earning excellent critical and public acclaim and winning a Targa Tenco in 2021. He also worked with some of the best Italian producers, including Fragile, Barbacci, Brando, De Rienzo, and Chiodo. Throughout these years, Scarpato has played in studio and live with top Italian singers, such as Piero Pelù, Marco Masini, Negrita, Irene Grandi, Eugenio Finardi, Alex Britti, Morgan, Enrico Ruggeri, Povia, Velvet, Emma, Eugenio Bennato, Marco Zurzolo, and Solis String Quartet . As a sideman, it is worth mentioning his numerous participations in TV events and festivals in Italy and aboard: Expo 98 in Lisbon, Basel99, Teatro America de l’Avana and Plaza de la Rivolucion in Santiago de Cuba 1999, Nice jazz festival 2003, Berna 2004 Live, Karlsrhue Rock Festival 2005, Campovolo 2005, New York 2010, Bucharest Arcub Fest 2010, Toronto 2010, Festival di Sanremo 2010, O’scia - Lampedusa 2010, concerto del Primo Maggio (Labour Day concert) in Rome in 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010 and 2017, and more. In recent years, he has worked on the sound recordings/soundtracks of important theatre productions with Maurizio Colombi (Peter Pan the musical), Maurizio Lombardi (L’Uomo Rondine, Tutto & Nulla, Ho visto cose), Maurizio De Giovanni (Quanti mondi possono esserci in una città) and Daniela Morozzi. He currently serves as a brand ambassador for Gibson Guitars, Galli Strings, Mezzabarba Custom Amplification, Dophix Pedals, Reference Cable, and Bespeco Professional.