It is the summer event most loved by children – and not only – and it is a Pesaro excellence that has a very consolidated tradition behind it which reaches its 37th edition in the year of Pesaro 2024. From 3 to 12 July (9.30 pm)the Burattini Opera Festival returns with six events in court of Palazzo Mazzolari Moscow which also hosts the space dedicated to Dario Fo and Franca Rame. The formula – which is also very popular with those who are no longer very young – is always the same and stages high quality performances with puppets, marionettes, puppets and feelings to be enjoyed with all the senses. On offer, music with fascinating stories, the taste of laughter and the good guys who defeat the lies of their antagonists, the immense pleasure of entertainment and animated theatre. Because Puppets live, perhaps, in the most important parts of our lives: just below the heart, between courage and fear, where you can hear a small drum beating. Their adventures take place on the meadow of desires, in the province of fantasy; many call them feelings. BOF is a nice feeling.
In addition to the 6 shows – a fixed stop in the calendar of families of tourists visiting Pesaro -, the BOF 2024 programme offers two ‘fantastic manual’ workshops on the afternoons of 3 and 10 July (5pm, free admission).
A little gem in honor of Pesaro 2024: starting this year, BOF also has its own pin, an unmissable gadget where the classic crab stands out in the center of a red flower with white polka dots, perfectly in line with the new ‘flower Bof’ style graphics.
Tickets: free admission up to 3 years – €6 up to 10 years – €8 over 10 years. Advance sales and box office: Teatro Sperimentale (Wednesday-Saturday 17-19), on the day of the show the box office will reopen from 20:00 until the start of the show. This year we are also adding online sales on vivaticket.it.
The BOF is promoted by ARCI PESARO-URBINO APS with the support of the Municipality of Pesaro/Department of Culture, with the collaboration of AMAT. Sponsor: Coop Alleanza 3.0, Giochi di Kim, Tontini Alceo, Electrical, electronic and photovoltaic systems. Artistic direction: Renzo Guerra. Graphics: Up Studio
Present at the conference: Daniel Wicker deputy mayor and councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Pesaro, Claudio Fiorenzo Clini president of Arci Pesaro-Urbino APS, Renzo Guerra artistic director BOF, Martha Cecconi president of the Coop Alleanza 3.0 area council, Elizabeth Ozino Caligaris/Up Studio.
Opened Claudio Fiorenzo Clini: the BOF, now in its 37th edition, represents the cultural event that more than any other ties Arci to the city of Pesaro. A proposal that has been able to renew itself over the years, investing in a program of national and international productions of great level and quality. For this edition, which takes place in the prestigious setting of Pesaro 2024, the Burattini Opera Festival offers, with the artistic direction of Renzo Guerra, six shows aimed at children and families, giving continuity to this event awaited by the entire community but it is also a special edition highlighted by a new particularly creative graphic.
Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at the program now: profusion of Shapes Flowers Colors, or Flower Power Bof The true fantasy of the summer! That is, 6 evenings of peace, love and puppets. In (dis)order of appearance: monsters, vampires, thieves in love, ecological children, criminals & vigilantes, Pinocchio, a beautiful love story. Beautiful, funny, fascinating, nourishing stories. Necessary stories: these are the words of Renzo Guerra.
Elizabeth Ozino Caligaris he stressed: it all started from the phrase that ‘BOF is the blossoming of ideas’ and so in the graphic design we followed the theme of blossoming and colour; the flowers are made with paper and then photographed precisely to best emphasise the creativity that animates the world of BOF.
The conclusions entrusted to Daniele Vimini who thanked Arci for maintaining the BOF tradition with its very high quality. I like to remember the venue – Palazzo Mazzolari Mosca – which welcomes the court of Dario Fo and Franca Rame, where spectators will find a nice surprise that we will reveal shortly that will add an element of magic to an already rich and varied edition that has the declared objective – partly already achieved in recent years – of raising the average age of the audience, to reach the adolescent group not so easy to reach when it comes to theater.
Plan
WEDNESDAY 3 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Company: TEATRO DELLE 12 LUNE
Title: TRANSYLVANIA CIRCUS
Genre: TABLE PUPPETS/PUPPETS
Musica: G. Bregovic, A. Lear
Duration: 45′
Mysterious and strange creatures form the Transylvania Circus company. Dragon men who breathe fire, acrobatic ghosts, a werewolf capable of walking in balance on the moon, and then her: the star of the show, the fascinating vampire woman… but a sinister sound… don’t worry gentlemen, the artists of the Transylvania Circus are all ‘nothing but dangerous!
THURSDAY 4 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Company: THE PUPPET HOUSE (PU)
Title: BEWARE OF THE THIEF
Genre: Puppetry
Duration: 50′
What a miserable life in the Puppet Theater…you like a girl but she has other things to do. A lady is looking for a husband but finds a thief. An astrologer predicts the future but things go wrong. Everything seems to be going to hell, but…but? in the Puppet Theater justice is swift! All you need is a “wooden” stick and a few love phrases. Have fun from zero to one hundred!!
FRIDAY 5 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Company: TEATRINO PELLIDO’ (AN)
Title: HERE IS A TREE!
Genre: Puppetry
Musica:
Duration: 40′
The tree is in the village: halfway between the school and his house; every day Carletto greets it, he climbs it. The tree is his secret friend and tells him a lot of things that he doesn’t tell others. The tree is the home of birds and squirrels. One bad day he discovers a man wants to cut it down. Carletto will discover that he has many friends and great courage.
WEDNESDAY 10 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Company: THE PUPPET HOUSE (PU)
Title: GRAND PUPPET THEATER
Genre: Puppetry
Duration: 50′
This is a Farce show; they are the oldest theatrical genre, characterized by short, fast and funny stories. Everything that characterizes Puppets! The good and the bad, a beautiful duel, great feelings of love or loyalty…ladies and gentlemen: it’s all here. Copying Gigi Proietti: welcome to Farces, where everything is fake but nothing is false. It’s all here.
THURSDAY 11 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Company: MASSIMILIANO VENTURI’S PUPPETS (RA)
Title: PINOCCHIO’S EYE!
Genre: Puppetry
Duration: 60′
An original rereading of the classic children’s literature translated and distributed throughout the world. Puppets and figures will compete to present the story of Pinocchio, according to an unusual and unpredictable staging. The characters of Collodi’s work will in fact be the protagonists of a show performed suddenly, in the true manner of the commedia dell’Arte, made up of chases, twists and duels, to be resolved rigorously with the sound of beatings.
FRIDAY 12 JULY AT 9.30 PM
Compagnia: POLITHEATER (PG)
Title: THE MEDIEVAL MESS
Genre: Puppets and Figures
Music:
Duration:
Two young lovers, the humble Bertoldo and Princess Cecilia, would like to fulfill their dream of love by getting married. Everything would be perfect if only Vincenzino the Prince and the witch Mestizia didn’t get in the way. Fun tale full of twists and turns, with all the magic of the great medieval chivalric stories.
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