“Social Intimacy”, the 2024-2025 season of the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, was presented in the company of a large number of councilors of all levels. Thirteen events featuring Paolo Fresu, Toni Servillo, Giuliano De Sio, Sergio Rubini, Valeria Solarino, Paolo Calabresi, Valerio Binasco, Marco Paolini, Filippo Dini, Christian Meyer, Pippo Delbono, Stefano Massini, Marco Bernardi, Andrea Bernard and Manuel Agnelli .
Eight TSB productions and co-productions and many returns starting with Paolo Fresu who inaugurates the Bolzano season six years after “Tempo di Chet” and three years after Tango Macondo. Fresu will be the author and performer of “Miles!”, a show that will make its world premiere at the Comunale in Bolzano on October 24th (reruns until the 27th). A tribute to Miles Davis born from the music composed by Fresu himself and performed live by very high profile musicians. The direction is by Andrea Bernard from Bolzano, recently awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize.
However, the preview of “Mein Kampf”, by Stefano Massini, now a frequent guest of the Bolzano seasons. The new “homily” by the Tuscan playwright is co-produced by the Piccolo Teatro-Teatro D’Europa and the Tsb, with the collaboration of the Teatro Nazionale della Toscana.
Also back on the billformer director of the TSB Marco Bernardi directed by “Spring Awakening” text by Franz Wedekind, emblem of youth conditions of all times. Presented from 4 to 16 March in the Teatro Studio del Comunale di Bolzano, “Spring Awakening” is a Tsb co-production with the Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale.
In synergy with the National Theaters of Turin and Veneto, from 14 to 17 November the TSB stages “Things I know to be true”, the first Italian staging of Andrew Bovell’s powerful comedy. Directed and performed by Valerio Binasco, joined on stage by Giuliana De Sio, the play describes the typical mechanisms of family structures. Same production formula also for “The Terrible Relatives”, a cross-section of Jean Cocteau’s society and family. Considered the most successful theatrical work by the French author, the comedy is presented at the Teatro Comunale from 19 to 22 December directed and performed by another usual protagonist of the Bolzano seasons: Filippo Dini. This is, however, his first collaboration with the TSB Sergio Rubini, author and director of “The Jekyll Case”, a show co-produced together with the Fondazione Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Bellini and Marche Teatro, on stage in Bolzano from 9 to 12 January. Starring Rubini and Daniele Russo, “The Jekyll Case” is a psychoanalytic reading of the famous novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” with which Robert Louis Stevenson brings to light the double that dwells in each of us.
From 12 to 15 December the Sala Grande will host “Il Risveglio”, a new show by and with Pippo Delbono, appreciated for his poetic and visionary shows, capable of mixing autobiography and history. This recent choral creation, which sees Delbono on stage with his company, is co-produced by the TSB together with Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale and seven other Italian, French and Romanian theater institutions.
“Darwin, Nevada”, the new show starring Marco Paolini, written together with Francesco Niccolini in collaboration with Telmo Pievani who makes use of the scientific consultancy of Niles Eldredge and James Moore. The show, on stage in Bolzano from 27 February to 2 March, is directed by Matthew Lenton, artistic director and founder of the Scottish theater company Vanishing Point which produces it together with the TSB, at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / National Theater and Jolefilm.
The authorities present at the presentation of “Social Intimacy” (Photo Ivo corrà © 2024)
Speaking of productions, that’s it the “in hospitality” shows which complete the Bolzano program. From 5 to 8 December Toni Servillo accompanies the public in the reading “Three ways to not die” written by Giuseppe Montesano, which aims to be an antidote to the paralysis of thought, to the non-life that tries to swallow us. From January 30th to February 2nd Paolo Genovese signs his first theatrical direction by bringing to the stage the adaptation of “Perfect Strangers”, his sensational cinematographic success. From 9 to 13 April, “Lazarus”, David Bowie’s rock opera, the creative testament of the British rock star, arrives in the TSB Season. A special event, presented for five performances at the Comunale di Bolzano, which sees Valter Malosti sign the direction and the Italian version of the text and the rocker Manuel Agnelli in the role of the tormented protagonist of this work, full of numerous historical songs by Bowie and others written specifically for the occasion.
This year too, thanks to the consolidated collaboration with the Centro Servizi Culturali Santa Chiara di Trento, the subscription season is enriched with two appointments with international contemporary dance. From November 28th to December 1st Opus Ballet, a collective artistically directed by Rosanna Brocanello, presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare with choreography by Davide Bombana. From March 27th to 30th Kidd Pivot, a leading Canadian company of dance theatre, signs the evocative show “Assembly Hall”, created by the choreographer Crystal Pite and the actor Jonathon Young.
Parallel to the subscription season, the third edition of the Contemporary Regional Season created in collaboration with the Santa Chiara Center. The show stops in Bolzano as part of this event Abbondanza Company/Bertoni “Viro” (5 November) and the TSB co-production “Saint Joan of the Slaughterhouses” by Bertolt Brecht of the ErosAntEros company (19 November). An opportunity created by the Ravenna-based company to compete with the Slovenian cult band LAIBACH and with an international cast. First text of the theatrical trilogy Wordstar(s) by Vitaliano Trevisan“Scandisk” is a tragicomedy starring and directed by Jacopo Squizzato alongside Mauro Bernardi and Beppe Casales (16 April).
SUBSCRIPTIONS
Season ticket prices remain unchanged compared to past seasons
There are four season ticket shifts for the Bolzano season. Shift A: Thursday h. 8.30pm; SHIFT B Friday h. 7.00pm; SHIFT C Saturday h. 7.00pm; SHIFT D Sunday h. 4.00pm.
Until Saturday 15 June it is possible to confirm the season ticket (shift and seat) for the past season.
NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS
From Tuesday 18 June until the first show of the season (“Mein Kampf” by Massini on stage on 2, 4, 5, 6 October) it will be possible to purchase new season tickets.
The programs proposed by the TSB to the public of Bolzano (Teatro Comunale and Teatro Cristallo), Merano, Bressanone, Brunico and Vipiteno and Trento are rich and closely connected to each other and guarantee a series of discounts that allow season ticket holders to attend theater programs in the region and not only.
The ticket office of the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano is open at the following times: Tuesday to Friday from 2.30pm to 7.00pm and Saturday from 3.30pm to 7.00pm.
Opening image: Walter Zambaldi director of the Teatro Stabile and vice-president of the Sparkasse Foundation (photo Ivo corrà © 2024)
