Teatro La Ribalta – Kunst der Vielfalt

Teatro la Ribalta - Kunst der Vielfalt is a community of dancers and actors-verses who want to develop their own legitimate weirdness. Live performance workers who are extra-ordinary only and uniquely in their way of being on stage and for the professionalism they have chosen to practice. 

Daily, doggedly, they work to seek and unveil "beauty" and try to give it back, to those who meet them, through poetry and the art of theater. Men and women who like the idea that the boundary between reality and fiction is penetrable, that fantasies and desires can become material, that work subjects and practices become opportunities to live and dream, that a person in difficulty can become the protagonist of his or her own life, when he or she crosses boundaries, changes the everyday, navigates unexplored waters, reconstructs identities. They bring to the theater a mystery, a personal poetics, the shadows and wounds that nourish art and life. 

The company, founded in Bolzano in 2011 and directed by director-author and scenographer Antonio Viganò, has a repertoire of shows that are touring in Italy and Europe and contributing a new look and artistic depth to social art theater. 

Winner of the 2015 and 2018 Eolo Award for the shows "H+G" and "Superabile" as the best new productions of the year in the childhood and youth theater sector; the 2015 Critic's Award promoted by the National Association of Theater Critics as well as the 2018 UBU Special Award "for the quality of artistic, creative and political research in often marginal areas and with capillary attention to diversity" and Hystrio Award - Other Muses 2021 "for making theatrical practice an instrument of social inclusion at 360 degrees." 

Otello Circus
In an old circus, where everything seems to wither away, Othello is forced to perform his personal tragedy. It is his sentence, the punishment he must serve for his heinous and murderous act.

He is kept company on that runway by the other characters of Verdi and Shakespeare's Opera: Desdemona, Cassio, Jago, Roderigo and Emilia who share the various activities and professions of the Circus. The acrobat, the knife thrower, the tightrope walker, the janitor, the tamer. Every day, for years, several times a day, that tragedy of jealousy repeats itself, and the performers, who have now become worn-out, weak and fragile characters, are incapable of stopping that circus of human feelings that leads to tragedy. In that Circus, invisibly revolve the ghosts of the victims of feminicide, to try, in vain, to interrupt that merry-go-round and to remind those watching that love that kills is against nature.

The actors give us back the Opera with their own personal vision and poetics, staging a great circus of human feelings where everything is dominated by the passions and ambitions of the characters.

UBU Prize 2018 - special project, awarded to ANTONIO VIGANO' and TEATRO LA RIBALTA - KUNST der VIELFALT "For the quality of artistic, creative and political research in often marginal areas and with widespread attention to diversity."

Performers: Rodrigo Scaggiante, Mirenia Lonardi, Matteo Celiento, Maria Magdolna Johannes, Jason De Majo, Michael Untertrifaller, Daniele Bonino, Rocco Ventura.
With singers: Francesca Pacileo (soprano), Paolo Cauteruccio (tenor), Massimo Marotta (baritone)
Sets and direction: Antonio Viganò
Orchestration and musical direction: Marco Sciammarella, Pilar Bravo
Artistic collaboration: Antonella Bertoni
Costumes: Roberto Banci - Sartoria teatrale Tirelli - Rome
Light design: Michelangelo Campanale
Technical direction: Andrea Venturelli
Production direction: Paola Guerra
Set photos: Vasco Dell'Oro and Marzia Rizzo
Distribution: Claudio Ponzana
Production: Teatro la Ribalta, Lebenshilfe Südtirol
In collaboration with: Orchestra AllegroModerato, Olinda – Festival “Da vicino nessuno è normale”
Supported by: Fondazione Allianz Umana Mente e Fondazione Alta Mane Italia
With the contribution of: MIBACT, Comune di Bolzano, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano-Alto Adige
The project originated within the Professionalizing Course "Art and Crafts of the Scene" of the European Social Fund – Provincia Autonoma Bolzano

SUITABLE FOR EVERYONE. RECOMMENDED AGE: +12.
SHOW WITH LIMITED CAPACITY (130 SEATS). On-site reservation. Go to the place indicated in the program, access will be handled from 1 hour before the start of the show