WHO IS ARTURO
WHO IS ARTURO
ARTURO BRACHETTI
Arturo Brachetti is an Italian artist, worldwidely famous and acclaimed. In many countries he is considered a living legend in the world of theater and visual performing art. He is also an attentive and passionate Director and artistic director, able to range from comic theater to musicals, from magic to variety shows.
Brachetti is now the best quick-change artist in the world, with a “gallery” of over 350 characters , 100 of which interpreted in one evening.
It is so fast that it has been included in the Guiness Book of Records, and its leadership still remains unbeaten. Arturo does not change color only the scope, but the whole character from shoes to hat, passing in the blink of an eye from Scarlett O’Hara to a mariachi, a diva of the Charleston to the Cossack on the bank of the Don.

The legend of quick-change
+3.000.000
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD
watched his shows
350
CHARACTERS
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ARTURO BRACHETTI
Arturo Brachetti is an Italian artist, worldwidely famous and acclaimed. In many countries he is considered a living legend in the world of theater and visual performing art. He is also an attentive and passionate Director and artistic director, able to range from comic theater to musicals, from magic to variety shows.
Brachetti is now the best quick-change artist in the world, with a “gallery” of over 350 characters , 100 of which interpreted in one evening.
It is so fast that it has been included in the Guiness Book of Records, and its leadership still remains unbeaten. Arturo does not change color only the scope, but the whole character from shoes to hat, passing in the blink of an eye from Scarlett O’Hara to a mariachi, a diva of the Charleston to the Cossack on the bank of the Don.

Arturo: his origins

Arturo “appeared” in Italy, in Turin, magical city par excellence, in 1957 but his career began in Paris, where, as the only quick-change artist in the world, reinvented and brought back the forgotten art invented by Fregoli, becoming for years the flagship attraction of the Paradis Latin. From here on his career is unstoppable, in a continuous crescendo that has established itself as one of the few Italian artists of international level, with a solid reputation outside of our country.
HIS SHOWS


Arturo: his origins

Arturo “appeared” in Italy, in Turin, magical city par excellence, in 1957 but his career began in Paris, where, as the only quick-change artist in the world, reinvented and brought back the forgotten art invented by Fregoli, becoming for years the flagship attraction of the Paradis Latin. From here on his career is unstoppable, in a continuous crescendo that has established itself as one of the few Italian artists of international level, with a solid reputation outside of our country.
ARTURO: HIS UNIVERSES
Arturo brings to the stage the best Italian art: elegance, imagination, love of beauty, creativity and humor. It represents a positive image of Italy in the world – the artists, the cinema, the great legengs of the show-business.
He creates his performances drawing on the same sources of the great masters of cinema and variety shows, such as the commedia dell’arte, the French varietè, the same that inspired Federico Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
Naturally curious, Arturo has never stopped experimenting with new forms of shows by rediscovering traditional techniques or creating new ones.
In addition to variety, which he prefers, he has worked in the prose theatre, television, cinema, drama, symphonic music, traditional and contemporary circus, musicals, direction and artistic directions.
ARTURO: HIS UNIVERSES
Arturo brings to the stage the best Italian art: elegance, imagination, love of beauty, creativity and humor. It represents a positive image of Italy in the world – the artists, the cinema, the great legengs of the show-business.
He creates his performances drawing on the same sources of the great masters of cinema and variety shows, such as the commedia dell’arte, the French varietè, the same that inspired Federico Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
Naturally curious, Arturo has never stopped experimenting with new forms of shows by rediscovering traditional techniques or creating new ones.
In addition to variety, which he prefers, he has worked in the prose theatre, television, cinema, drama, symphonic music, traditional and contemporary circus, musicals, direction and artistic directions.
ARTURO: HIS STORY

2016 - 2020 SOLO
SOLO is a 90-minute surrealist show, made of magic, illusions, lights, lasers. 10 sketches during which over 50 characters come to life thanks to the talent of the great Italian quick-change artist Arturo Brachetti. Arturo tells his fantasies and his dreams through a miniature house, symbolizing the memories that each of us holds in their heads and in their hearts. The house becomes a set and Arturo invites the public to come and go through 7 different rooms, each one associated with a memory or a fantasy that Arturo wanders through with his magic and transformations.
2014 - 2016 BRACHETTI CHE SORPRESA!

After the incredible success of “L’Uomo dai Mille Volti” and of “Ciak si gira”, and the triumph of the recent tour of Canada and France Comedy Majik Cho, the “Italy’s most famous tuft” goes back to his birthplace, Italy, with a new extraordinary and unpredictable show: Brachetti Che Sorpresa!
Arturo is located in a place full of suitcases, boxes and trunks from around the world.A limbo both mysterious and fascinating, full of objects and stories collected on long trips and curious characters who stumbled there, somehow. Will Arturo find his lostred suitcase? To do so, like in a big videogame, he will face challenges and levels …just like life, right?
Arturo, the biggest change artist in the world, does not disappoint his audience and offers a “best of” of his quick change skills, an art he reinvented himself that made him famous and acclaimed everywhere in the planet: in the blink of an eye (maybe two) he is transformed before the eyes of the audience from hat to shoes. A kaleidoscope of characters made with great costumes or with only a few items to remind us that “with little you can do everything, just let yourself go to the imagination.”
Brachetti is a 360° artist, able to switch from transformation with other performances that will leave people in awe: the charm of shadow puppetry, the thrill of sand painting and much more.
Fellow adventurers its eclectic and unusual friends: Luca Bono, “blue eyes of the magic”, a young international talent of illusionism; Luca & Tino, hilarious, dazed and improbable artists, defined by the prestigious French daily Le Figaro the “Italian Laurel and Hardy”; Francesco Scimemi, as ingenious and unpredictable as he has ever been and Kevin Michael Moore, an alter ego of the protagonist.
There are two brand new acts: the laser, handled and shaped during the narration; and the stage is designed live with the innovative technique called video mapping, used for the first time in Italy in a variety show.
The underlying theme is the illusionism, which Arturo interprets in a contemporary way: an amazing journey into fantasy in which the great artist, as a guide, will lead theaudience by the hand.
Brachetti che sorpresa! was applauded in Italy from 38,000 spectators in the2013/14 season.
2013 - 2015 COMEDY MAJIK CHO

After having seduced the whole world with his show dedicated to the art of transformation, Arturo Brachetti today speaks of magic, in the company of his friends.
Great connoisseur of the visual arts, always looking for new trends but never forgetting the foundations of tradition, Arturo Brachetti is the presenter of a show that looks like him and offers an extraordinary combination of magic and humor.
It starts with a traditional number, through a bizarre universe, winking humor, until he unleashes the unusual: this show is a journey into the world of magic where each guest reveals his last extraordinary creations.
A show full of laughter and colorful spectacle, in a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional cabaret, led by the one who continues to fascinate us with the magic.
2010 - 2011 CIAK SI GIRA!

After several years of absence as solo-artist of his show, Brachetti returns as protagonist in a one-man show that encloses, as in “Man of a 1000 faces” the best of his repertoire.
“Ciak si gira!” (action!) is the magic phrase that evokes the moment when the craftsman of the film creates the dream and is the title by which Brachetti takes us on an amazing journey into the cinema.
In a series of numbers, theatrical and evocative moments, in a new scenic setting, Arturo relives his love for the seventh art. The show begins with a huge TV where Arturo turns in the characters that populated the afternoon movies, the ones that we all have seen and loved since childhood: Zorro, Mary Poppins, Maciste, Cruella De Vil, cowboys, pirates and adventurers. Arturo then recalls being, still a teenager, the Museum of Cinema in Turin, his city and to have particularly remembered the Horror section. He creates then a fun frenzy of meetings, where the priest of “The exorcist” comes face to face with Nosferatu, served by undertaker on duty. The monster of Halloween, after having chopped the possessed girl, loses his head and literally finds it between his own knees. As in any self-respecting horror, the paintings speak, ghosts disappear and tables fly.
Arturo tells the story of the characters that influenced him a lot in his very first cinema experiences, from Baby Jane to musicals … then there is the story of Lon Chaney, also called “the man of a 1000 faces”, which was the pioneer of facial make-up for create characters now become icons of cinema. Arturo revives through quick costume changes and make-up all the characters made famous by the actor such as the Phantom of the Opera, Quasimodo, Fu-Manchu, scary clowns and melancholic Pierrots.
In another more intimate moment Arturo revives the oldest cartoons in the world as Chinese shadows, or the grandfather’s hat with which he transformed from a small, in dozens of characters, or even the number of fantasy: “everything out of nothing“.
The evocation of the world of Fellini closes the first part of the show, as a maximum combination of scenic invention and dreamlike evocation. The play had already one of the most touching moments and visually inventive of the previous show Brachetti.
The second part of the show is almost entirely dedicated to the great Hollywood films with a parade of characters that rivals a film library: Charlie Chaplin, Gene Kelly, King Kong, Shreck, Liza Minneli, Gollum, Harry Potter, Carmen Miranda, E. T. Judy Garland, Jack Sparrow, Snow White, Darth Vader, and many, many more, creating a hilarious and surprising film zapping. Arturo does magic, disappears, flies…
After more than sixty transformations and magical surprises, the show ends with a poetic and spectacular evocation, a thank you to all the objects and more mundane actions that have become memorable thanks to their use in film … from Méliès’ moon, Tarzan’s howl and ET’s bike.
2010 BRACHETTI AND HIS FRIENDS

Arturo Brachetti in Naples brings his friends, amazing performers specifically gathered for this occasion.
This is the first appointment of a project that will take shape in the coming years and that will develop in the next theater season with Magiko !, show born from the sparkling fantasy of Arturo.
Brachetti wanted to experience in Naples the first steps of the new lab, for the great theatrical tradition that this city has.
An evening with the memories and imagination that Arturo shares with his audience, starting from the beginning and the first magic numbers up to meetings with some of the most talented artists known in his long national and international career. Some of them are with him on the stage:
The lucchettino (Luca Regina and Tino Fimiani), hilarious and improbable comic magicians who can not resist;
Luca Bono, young talent illusionism with the impossible in the hands;
Mister David, breathtaking juggling capable of balancing extremes and enthralling performances by escapology;
Andrzej & Tomasz, acrobats Poles with the famous steel body worldwide for the strength and grace of their performance.
A show with amazing effects that provide an evening of magical dreams as well, that can happen!
2009 Change

English adaptation of the show “Man of a 1000 faces”, it was performed at the Garrick Theatre in London from 19 October 2009 to 3 January 2010. It was nominated in the category “Best Entertainment” for the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, the most prestigious London theater award.
Arturo Brachetti is the only Italian artist to have been well received 2 nominations (the first in 1983 with “Y” in the category “Best New Comedy”) to one that is internationally regarded as the highest honor of the English theater.
2008 - 2009 Gran Varietà Brachetti

The show which blends the flair and imaginative fantasy of Arturo with the traditions of Variety and Music-Hall. Brachetti, this time, is presented along with a unique human fauna, international attractions, comic characters, ballets, but also transformations, illusions and surprises.
A group of tourists visits a long-ago abandoned theater that it going to be torn down to make way for a supermarket very soon. But a ghost traps them inside asking in exchange for freedom a show that meets the “theater of desire” Ghost.
Brachetti, the guide of the group, pushing tourists to prove himself, with surprising results …
1999 - 2008 THE MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES


1998/99 -SOGNO DI UNA NOTTE DI MEZZA ESTATE

1996-98 BRACHETTI IN TECHINCOLOR

1996 - FREGOLI

1994 - FANTASISSIMO

1992 - IL MISTERO DEI BASTARDI ASSASSINI

Comedy–thriller where Arturo plays eight illegitimate brothers contending a legacy and killing each other. In the original French version they simply murdered each other with a pistol, but in Brachetti’s version the eight (six brothers and two sisters) shoot arrows, hang each other, poison each other and even behead each other. Among the farce and the Grand Guignol the comic mechanism is exhilarating thanks to the skill of Monica Scattini and Roberto Citran. To encourage the public to recognize Arturo in the eight “bastards” they all had red hair.
1984 - SQUARE ROUNDS


In an ammunition factory in 1918 a group of 20 women workers, an old worker and a young man who came back shocked by war discuss about the misuse of inventions, born to serve good purposes but then often used by man for petty purposes, even war purposes. Art (the soldier) at the end of the first act is left alone in the factory. Sniffing a laughing gas bottle he starts to laugh uncontrollably. He quick-changes to a soldier and lives for a few moments the scene of the battlefield. The costume explodes to become the Mother in black, veiled and with a lighted candle in hand, weeping while awaiting the return of her son. The emotional impact, accompanied by visual surprise, leaves the viewers petrified and a few seconds pass before the liberating applause.
1991 - I MASSIBILLI

Arturo director and star with, among others, Mariangela D ‘Abbraccio. Costumes by Patrizia Bongiovanni. Music by Tiziano Popoli. Produzione Plexus – Lucio Ardenzi. A seven actors company is trying a boulevard comedy. Since they don’t have actors to play the minor roles, the director obliges the prompter (Arturo) to take his place. He becomes the deus ex machina of the whole show quick-changing in as many as 33 different characters. In the final, the first actress (Mariangela d’Abbraccio) finally realizes it’s him and falls in love. This Arturo comic ride reveals all his skills as a polymorphous actor who’s able not only to change costumes but also voice, gait and characterization. The show remained on the bill for two seasons, opening the door to Arthur to prose theatre.
M.BUTTERFLY


1987-88 IN PRINCIPIO ARTURO

1987 - AMAMI ARTURO

1985 - VARIETÀ

Directed by Maurizio Scaparro. Choreography by Gino Landi. Starring Massimo Ranieri and Marisa Merlini, Toni Ucci, Livia Romano. Other actors and a dance crew of 16 dancers. Production Teatro Stabile di Roma. Under the direction of Massimo Scaparro the Teatro Stabile di Roma decided to produce a popular show with an unprecedented cultural reference: the Variety. The story-teller, a wild Massimo Ranieri, takes us on this journey through the musical-light theater Italian between the great wars; from Cafè Chantant to the Rivista. On the empty stage of the Teatro Argentina the characters appear as if they were rehearsing: the “canzonettiste”, “goals tellers”, ballets, sketches once performed by Totò, Petrolini, by Wandissima (photo). Arturo performs in several solo parts and is the only artist in “costume”. The success of the show in the whole of Italy is so unexpected and fulminant Art becomes the revelation of the year.
CHRISTMAS GALA FOR THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY

Christmas Gala for the British royal family at the Covent Garden Royal Opera House London. It is a great honor for any artist to perform in the Christmas Gala at the Opera House of Covent Garden. If we consider that the Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Diana are in the audience and the sister of the queen herself, Margareth, presents the evening, the heart beats really strong. Art has a number of transformations the first of which is a parody of an opulent opera singer so even today he can say without lying: “I sang La Traviata at Covent Garden”
1983 - ``Y`` PICCADILLY THEATRE LONDON

1981 - FLIC-FLAC


1979 - PARADIS LATIN (MUSIC HALL)


ELEPHANT MAN(TEATRO)

2014-15 The Best

2000 NIKKI

L'ANTIFURTO / LA CONCORRENZA

1999 DREW CAREY SHOW

1993 DISNEY NIGHT OF MAGIC

1985 THE BEST OF MAGIC

1983 AL PARADISE

2016 - The Best of Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo

In 2016 the most beloved Italian trio will celebrate 25 years of career in the name of comedy. And to do that it is preparing an extraordinary celebration during which AGG will retrace their greatest successes, presenting the most beloved sketches from audience and never again brought on stage to the theater after the original tour. THE MOUNTAIN, THE TWINS (I Corti, 1995), SCHOOL OF POLICE, PDOR, SCHOOL OF SICILIAN, AJEJE BRAZORF, are just some of the possible sketches that we will see results.
This new show is unique and unmissable opportunity to applaud the characters onstage and watch some of their funniest sketches that have made the history of comedy: you missed the Courts, Tel el who telùn, Anplagghed, or have them He loved so much to see them again hundreds and hundreds of times? Then you can not miss this extraordinary live event!
The direction is given as a tradition to Arturo Brachetti, who directed them in all theatrical productions (I Corti, Tel chi el telùn, Anplagghed and Ammutta muddica). On stage, the inevitable presence of Silvana Fallisi. Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo will also be accompanied live by the great orchestra of Good Fellas, just like those in Tel chi el telun.
2012 - AMMUTTA MUDDICA

A new show directed by Arturo and starring the trio Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo. Inspired by the life of every day, the trio with actress Silvana Fallisi, juggles bizarre comic situations and characters, such as the emergency that three citizens faces with tax agents or the teasing of some contemporary fashions like tattoos and racing mania.
2006 - ANPLAGHEDD
Director of the new show by Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo, which toured venues all over Italy until November 2006. A DVD was published as well as a TV show for three episodes.
1999 - TEL CHI EL TELUN


1995 - I CORTI


2002 ARPA DI SERA, BELCANTO SI SPERA
Theatre: directed by Brachetti and Valenta, Arpa di sera, belcanto si spera with Vittorio Valenta (harp) and Silvia Testoni (soprano) A (very) comic classical music concert for harp and soprano. A music journey from the Opera to Enya, from musical comedies to Queen.
2000 L'INFINITAMENTE PICCOLO

CENT RANCUNES

1983 CLEMENTINE TANGO
