Mario Merola was an Italian singer and actor, most prominently known for having rejunevated the traditional popular Neapolitan melodrama known as the sceneggiata. Born into a poor family of Naples, Merola held a number of day jobs ranging from kitchen help to longshoreman at the port of Naples until one of his songs, Malu Filgliu, was used successfully in a sceneggiata, promoting him into the limelight. Merola was at the height of his popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.

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  • Mario Merola was an Italian singer and actor, most prominently known for having rejunevated the traditional popular Neapolitan melodrama known as the sceneggiata. Born into a poor family of Naples, Merola held a number of day jobs ranging from kitchen help to longshoreman at the port of Naples until one of his songs, Malu Filgliu, was used successfully in a sceneggiata, promoting him into the limelight. Merola was at the height of his popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He recorded approximately 40 CDs of sceneggiata music and has extensive credits in filmed versions of this Neapolitan form, newer ones as well as "classical" works from earlier in the 20th century. He toured abroad with a Neapolitan company to bring the sceneggiata to emigrant Italian communities elsewhere. Although better known as a singer, Merola starred in several Italian crime thrillers, usually playing a gangster. He starred as crime boss Michele Barresi in Umberto Lenzi's 1979 thriller From Corleone to Brooklyn. One of Merola's most renowned movies was Zappatore,where he plays a father who worked tirelessly to make his son into a lawyer, only to have his son turn his back on him. He died aged 72 in 2006, after having been in intensive care in San Leonardo hospital in Castellammare di Stabia, with breathing difficulties.
  • Mario Merola war ein neapolitanischer Sänger und Schauspieler. Merola arbeitete zunächst als Hafenarbeiter in Neapel, bis er auf Drängen seiner Kollegen einen Gesangskurs absolvierte. Recht schnell hatte er im neuen Metier großen Erfolg und wurde zu einer Ikone des neapolitanischen Liedes. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schallplatten. Zum Ende der 1970er Jahre begann er parallel zu seiner Gesangskarriere eine Reputation als Schauspieler aufzubauen. Er trat häufig in Filmen von Regisseur Alfonso Brescia auf, meist kriminalistisch angehauchte Filme sowie Melodramen – fast ausschließlich mit Neapel-Bezug, meist schon im (Original)Titel. Nur wenige dieser Filme hatten Aufführungen außerhalb Italiens. Seit Mitte der 1980er konzentrierte er sich wieder auf die neapolitanischen Lieder und trat in unzähligen Konzerten, auf Bühnen und im Fernsehen auf. Zu Beginn des Jahres 2006 musste er auf Grund gesundheitlicher Probleme seine Karriere beenden. Er starb an einem Lungenödem. Seit 1964 war er mit Rosa Serrapaglia verheiratet, mit der er drei Kinder hatte, von denen sein Sohn Francesco die Tradition als Sänger neapolitanischen Liedgutes fortführt.
  • La sua attività artistica non si è limitata all'interpretazione vocale di brani del repertorio della canzone napoletana, ma è stata anche fondamentale nella rivalutazione del genere musicale-teatrale della sceneggiata, in auge ai primi del Novecento.
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  • Mario Merola was an Italian singer and actor, most prominently known for having rejunevated the traditional popular Neapolitan melodrama known as the sceneggiata. Born into a poor family of Naples, Merola held a number of day jobs ranging from kitchen help to longshoreman at the port of Naples until one of his songs, Malu Filgliu, was used successfully in a sceneggiata, promoting him into the limelight. Merola was at the height of his popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Mario Merola war ein neapolitanischer Sänger und Schauspieler. Merola arbeitete zunächst als Hafenarbeiter in Neapel, bis er auf Drängen seiner Kollegen einen Gesangskurs absolvierte. Recht schnell hatte er im neuen Metier großen Erfolg und wurde zu einer Ikone des neapolitanischen Liedes. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Schallplatten. Zum Ende der 1970er Jahre begann er parallel zu seiner Gesangskarriere eine Reputation als Schauspieler aufzubauen.
  • La sua attività artistica non si è limitata all'interpretazione vocale di brani del repertorio della canzone napoletana, ma è stata anche fondamentale nella rivalutazione del genere musicale-teatrale della sceneggiata, in auge ai primi del Novecento.
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  • Mario Merola
  • Mario Merola
  • Mario Merola
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