Arturo Brachetti

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Arturo Brachetti

Arturo Brachetti (born October 13, 1957 in Turin ) is an Italian variety artist and actor .

Arturo Brachetti has been listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest quick-change artist since 2006 . The costume changes in seconds enable him to portray up to 80 different people within two hours. He gained a reputation primarily as a quick-change artist, actor, magician and "Chinese shadow player" .

Life

After playing mostly with puppets as a child, a priest taught him magic at the convent school he attended. At the age of about 15 he performed his first magic performance (rapid transformation) there. Arturo Brachetti's professional career began in France in 1978 at the Paris cabaret “ Paradis Latin ”. The Viennese artist André Heller engaged him in 1981 for the lead role in his poetic variety show "Flic Flac", which was a production of the Wiener Festwochen and was also successful in Germany. 1983-84 Brachetti went to England and performed at the Piccadilly Theater in London with the production "Y", which ran for over a year. For this play he was nominated for the Swet Theater Prize.

In the same year he appeared in the Covent Garden Christmas Gala in the presence of the British royal family . Returning to Italy, he starred as a permanent guest in ten episodes of the RAI television show "Al Paradise" , directed by Antonello Falqui . He then played on Italian theater stages, where he performed with “Varietà”, “M. Butterfly "(with Ugo Tognazzi , among others ), Igor Stravinsky's" Histoire du Soldat "," In Principio Arturo "," Amami Arturo "," Il Mistero dei Bastardi Assassini "etc. was successful.

Between his Italian tours, he returned to London in the early 1990s and appeared in Tony Harrison's production of "Square Rounds" at the National Theater . In 1991 he appeared as an interval act at the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 in Rome. In 1993 and 1994, twelve episodes of the Thames television show “ The Best of Magic ” were presented, as well as the presentation of the internationally broadcast television show “A Night of Magic” at Disneyland Paris . Arturo Brachetti has directed international shows since 1994, including performances with Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo , Raul Cremona and Angelo Branduardi . In Germany in 1994 he showed the program “Fantasissimo” he had staged in the Berlin Wintergarten Varieté . At the same time, the collaboration with the Italian group Compagnia Della Rancia and its director Saverio Marconi began . Arturo's musical “Fregoli” was awarded the “Biglietto D'Oro” as the best-attended piece of the season (over 280,000 tickets sold). Other successes were “Brachetti in Technicolor” and Shakespeare's “Midsummer Night's Dream”. In 1999 he presented his new show "L'uomo dai 1000 volti", directed by Serge Denoncourt, in Montreal , Canada at the " Juste pour rire " festival . The trilingual show was extended beyond the summer due to its great success. In 2000 the show won the Canadian Olivier Award , in the same year Arturo Brachetti was awarded the Molière Theater Prize in Paris .

After 700 sold out performances in Paris, Brachetti went on a world tour with the show. At Christmas 2004 he performed in Paris in the Élysée Palace in front of President Jacques Chirac and his 600 guests. In 2006 Brachetti had sold more than a million tickets worldwide with his show after more than 1,000 performances.

tour

The world tour with “L'uomo dai 1000 volti” brought Arturo back to Italy in 2005 after eight years of absence. The show "Anplagghed" with top Italian comedians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, staged by Brachetti, premiered there in February 2006. After a sold out tour, the piece was filmed.

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personal data
SURNAME Brachetti, Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian variety artist and actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Turin , Italy