I'm looking for a restaurant, maybe in the Trastavere area (Rome), that has a stage show with dinner, singers in costume, Neopolitan, etc. Sound familiar?
Mar 4th, 2002, 05:07 AM
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I'm looking for a restaurant, maybe in the Trastavere area (Rome), that has a stage show with dinner, singers in costume, Neopolitan, etc. Sound familiar?
Years ago (1984) my husband and I were in Rome and decided to try a spot for dinner that was suggested in a guidebook I had at the time, (which has since been discarded or lost, which explains why I'm now having to ask for help). I am totally unable to tell you where in Rome this place was, though I suspect Trastavere. We practically stumbled upon it. We thought we were just going to have a nice dinner, but the layout in this restaurant was unique. There was a lower floor with a stage at the end, and an upper tier like a balcony that surrounded the main floor. As dinner got started, much to our surprise, so did a stage show. This show consisted of the actor/singers in provincial costume representing the various regions of Italy as well as the music. It was almost a vaudevillian type show at times with humor and some slapstick, but the main thing was the singing which was fabulous. There was a tenor who could sing Neopolitan songs with the best if them! It was an amazing evening.<BR><BR>I feel like a fool for not having kept up with the information on this, but it WAS almost 20 years ago. Does any of this ring familiar to anyone out there??<BR>We are going again next week, and I would love to take our children to this place, if it still exists. Any help or suggestions for similar venues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
Mar 4th, 2002, 04:49 PM
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Surely someone out there remembers the place that Jan is talking about. <BR><BR>I ran a search with Google and found Fantasie di Trastevere. It's a restaurant in Trastevere that has some sore of folkloric show. Probably not the place that Jan was talking about, but I gave it a shot!
Mar 4th, 2002, 08:15 PM
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You know, ttt, that may very well be the place! The name does not sound familiar at all, as in surely I would remember a name like that! But I found their website and I'll have to say that from the pictures it looks a lot like what I remember. Thank you for your search! If anyone else has any ideas about what they think it might be, or if you've been to this place, let me know. Thanks!
