GOLDEN ALBUM OF PEOPLE COLLABORATING  IN 
THE PUPPET THEATER
of MARIO MAGONIO

ACTORS and PUPPETERS

  1947 Mario Magonio

Director and owner of the Puppet Theatre, is also the inspirator and the main puppeter. He interprets all the male voices of the puppets in genovesian dialect and in Italian language

       
  1947 Don Francesco Urbano

He was the first collaborator of Mario Magonio and lend the voice to Pipia and other personages supplying the structure for the first shows in the Oratory of the Church of Nostra Signora delle Vigne in Genoa

       
  1947 Emma Magonio

Wife of Mario Magonio interpreted the voice of Texinin and collaborated to the birth of the first Puppet Theater.

       
  1948 Adriana Urbano

Other most valid collaborator of the newborn Puppet Theatre, sister of Don Urbano, had a beautifulst voice and was the first and the only actress that in the course of the show recited and sang

       
  1948 Angelo D'Alessio

Between the first-time collaborators of the Theatre interpreted some male personages with preference of those wicked like  the Devil, the Ork and the Brigand

       
  1973 Anna De Barbieri

Actress coming from the Laboratory of the Teatro della Tosse  entered in company in 1975 covering  for some years many roles of femele puppet

       
  1975 Angela Valle

Interprets the femele voices of the puppets, the Fairy Angelina, The Princess Lisetta, Pinocchio and like actress on the stage the Pagliaccina Angelocchia and other living personages

       
 

1976

Cristina Magonio

Little dancer of classic dance of only four years exhibited itself in the interval of the show and appeared in the gags of the Pagliaccina Angelocchia 

       
 

1976

Ileana Viola

Little dancer of classic dance exhibited itself with Cristina Magonio in minuettos and valzers 

       

PUPPETER ASSISTANTS

 

1949

Alberto Magonio

Assistant of scene and puppet animator. Webmaster of this pages on which you will find everything is connected with Puppets

       
 

1950

Franco Schivo Assistant of scene and puppet animator. Today he is a wellknown baker for its most special focaccia
       
 

1950

Mario Grattarola Assistant of scene and puppet animator
       
 

1952

Nini Miglietta Assistant of scene and puppet animator. Today is a very appreciated scenographer in Theater
       
 

1954

Lorenzo Micali Assistant of scene and puppet animator
       
 

1979

Carlos Panella Assistant of scene and puppet animator. Presently lives in Argentina
       
 

1980

Ezio Bilello Assistant of scene and puppet animator. With the time he become an expert of Puppets. He has written witnesses and articles on the Theatre and he organizes exibitions of great interest as that last one on the Marionettes Pallavicini at Campoligure and that one on the Pupi Catanesi at the  Bank of Sicily in Genoa
       
 

1991

Paolo Ansaldo

Assistant of scene and entertainer. He has collaborated to the drawing up of some commedie and in particular he has written  some sketches with Baciccia, Pipia, Fastidio and Tartaggia as protagonists

       

SEARCHES - SCENOGRAPHIES - TAYLOR'S WORKSHOP

 

1975

Lele Luzzati Scenographer of international reputation has donated some scenographies to the Magonio theater when he was collaborating with the Teatro della Tosse
       
 

1984

Luciano Caviglia Painter and sculptor of greatest talent has painted the two Arlecchino who decorate the stage of the Theater of Magonio
       
 

1991

Rosita Perosio Painter much famous in Italy painted the scenes of the commedy La vera Favola della Scoperta dell'America. Particularly appreciated the scene of the deck of the Caravella Santa Maria with sails and tow-rope in a stormy sea.
       
 

1996

Luciana Trotta

Dedited to the search of various forms of animation for the Center of Riabilitation Psychiatric in Genoa where has organized several exibition od the Magonio puppet Theater 

       

ADMINISTATION and LOGISTICS

 

1974

Angela Lazzeroni

Considered that all the artists have the head in the clouds... the organizational and logistic part and the financial management it has always weighed on the shoulders of  Angela also named Tata because it has held to nanny all the actors and collaborators of the company

STORYBOARD and SOUNDTRACKS

 

1974

Angela Lazzeroni

Specialized in noise effects and soundtrack  

       
 

1990

Mario Bagnara

Has written the famous storyboard  La Scoperta della America in occasion of The Cristopher Columbus celebration held in Genoa on 1992

       
AGENTS 
 

1965

Dino Morelli

Agent from 1965 to 1980 he was particularly in touch with the Teatro della Tosse and inspired the collaboration of Magonio with that theater

       
 

1980

Gianni Lizzi

Agent, surely the most famous in Genoa, has cured the promotion of the Teatrino of the Burattini di Mario Magonio from 1980 obtaining the best engagements from Liguria Public Agencies in the manifestations of the Councillorships for the tourism 

       

PHOTOGRAPHERS

 

1979

Francesco De Lillis

Official Photographer of the company has collaborated for many years curing the graphical of the company posters

       

TRUCK and MOVERS

 

1983

Emilio Borgarelli

Official mover of the Theatre for many years, is owner of a Company of Transports, also has participated for passion to the assembly and the preparation of the shows

       
 
 

Many people have collaborated with the Genovesian Puppet Theatre of Mario Magonio in the course of these last 50 years. We ask to excuse us to those friends that have been forgotten promising hardly to repair to the error of our memory if someone will give us notices  

 
         

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