Director

Music from Giuseppe Verdi
Text from Francesco Maria Piave with additions by Giuseppe Montanelliin the new version by Arrigo Boito after Antonio García Gutiérrez

Simon Boccanegra

Bebelplatz

Thirty years after its debut, Federico Tiezzi and Sandro Lombardi are restaging one of their greatest successes: Giovanni Testori's Oedipus. With this play, the author concludes, after Ambleto and Acbetto, the Scarrozzanti Trilogy, the grotesque and desperate world of a group of wandering actors who blend classical tragedy and everyday life. The abandoned manager is left alone to play all the roles, transforming the stage into a theater of the mind. Using a hybrid language that blends Lombard dialect and poetic invention, the sacred and the grotesque, eros and death, comedy and desperation intertwine. Along with the magnetic Lombardi, Antonio Perretta also takes the stage.

Oedipus. 30 Years Later

Gobetti

After a five-year absence, Virginia Raffaele returns to the theater with "Bancàl," a new show that transforms the stage into a circus of shaky, ramshackle, and imperfect stories. The Bancàl Circus is normality gone haywire, flaws become wonder, a place where everyday frailties become applause-worthy acts. Accompanied by an orchestra, Raffaele puts everyday lives front and center: lovers hanging by a thread, old people shot from a cannon, talking animals, clowns in suspenders. And this circus isn't just a show, but the irony with which each of us, every day, tries to maintain our balance.

Based on an idea by Virginia Raffaele, “Bancàl” was written with Francesco Freyrie, Daniele Prato, and Giovanni Todescan, with direction by Federico Tiezzi, sets by Pierpaolo Bisleri, costumes by Giovanna Buzzi, lighting design by Marco Pollini, assistant director Giovanni Scandella, and music and musical direction by Paolo Silvestri.

Director

Federico Tiezzi

Events

Upcoming events

2 - 7 Feb, 2027

Oedipus. 30 Years Later · Teatro Stabile Torino

2 - 7 Mar, 2027

Virginia Raffaele · Teatro Colosseo

Past events

Mar 21 - Apr 4, 2025

Simon Boccanegra · Staatsoper Berlin

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