Fantasio Piccoli (24 March 1917 – 27 October 1981) was an Italian theatre director.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, the son of the author Valentino, in 1947 Piccoli founded and directed the stage company "Compagnia del Carrozzone" (also known just as "Il Carrozzone"), a company consisting of ten young actors (including
Romolo Valli
Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor.
Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best-known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked for both the stage and the silver screen. Among the ...
and
Adriana Asti
Adriana Asti (born 30 April 1931) is an Italian stage, film, and voice actress.
Biography
Adriana Asti appeared very young in Dino Risi's short film Buio in sala, shot in 1948.
She made her theatrical debut in 1951 acting in Plautus' Miles Glo ...
) who held stagings in about two hundred cities in three years.
In 1950 he and most of his company moved to
Bolzano
Bolzano ( ; ; or ) is the capital city of South Tyrol (officially the province of Bolzano), Northern Italy. With a population of 108,245, Bolzano is also by far the largest city in South Tyrol and the third largest in historical Tyrol. The ...
, where Piccoli founded the Teatro Stabile, which he directed until 1966;
[ At the Teatro Stabile he directed seventy four stagings, mainly based on Italian authors.][
]
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Further reading
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1917 births
1981 deaths
Theatre people from Milan
Italian theatre directors