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Daniele Finzi Pasca<\/strong> (Lugano, Switzerland), co-founder of Compagnia Finzi Pasca<\/h3>\n

Author, stage director, choreographer, lighting designer and actor<\/em><\/p>\n

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Daniele Finzi Pasca lives in three worlds at once: stage directing, performing arts, and the art of clowning. Born into a family steeped in the arts, he starts his career as a gymnast and becomes a circus artist before delving into the world of theatre. In 1983, he heads to India where he volunteers to care for terminally ill patients in Calcutta. On his return to Switzerland, with Maria Bonzanigo and his brother Marco he creates the company Teatro Sunil\u00a0<\/em>and its peculiar vision of the art of clowning, dance and acting: a theatrical technique they name the \u201cTheatre of the Caress\u201d.\u00a0With Teatro Sunil he creates and directs around 30 shows depicting a profound sense of humanity and playfulness, performed in about 20 countries. In 1991 he writes Icaro<\/em>, a monologue imagined for a single spectator that he performs more than 800 times, in 6 languages, still on tour. In 2009 he co-founds Inlevitas\u00a0<\/em>with his wife Julie Hamelin Finzi, who died in 2016, aiming to create and develop various artistic projects, where the opera L\u2019Amour<\/em> de Loin<\/em> (Love from Afar) for the English National Opera in London is its first production.<\/p>\n

In 2011, together with Antonio Vergamini, Hugo Gargiulo, Julie Hamelin Finzi and Maria Bonzanigo, he co-founds Compagnia Finzi Pasca<\/strong> based in Lugano (Switzerland) for which he creates and directs more than 40 shows: <\/strong>3 Olympic Ceremonies (Turin 2006 and Sochi 2014, the Olympic and Paralympic Games), 2 shows for Cirque du Soleil (Luzia<\/em> in 2016 and Corteo<\/em> in 2005 with more than 10 million spectators), 9 operas including Aida<\/em> and Verdi’s Requiem<\/em>, which officially entered the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg; Carmen<\/em> and Pagliacci<\/em> at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples,\u00a0<\/em>L’Amour<\/em> de loin <\/em>for the English National Opera in London, Einstein on the Beach<\/em> which opened the 2019\/2020 season at the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve, Les contes <\/em>d’Hoffmann<\/em> for the Hamburg Staatsoper in 2021, and Mar\u00eda de Buenos Aires<\/em> at the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve in October 2023. In 2024 Daniele Finzi Pasca directs Zarqa Al Yamama, <\/em>the first grand opera in Arabic,\u00a0which makes its debut on 25 April in Saudi Arabia on the historic stage of the renovated King Fahad Cultural Center in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

Among big events,<\/strong> in 2017 Compagnia Finzi Pasca produced\u00a0Montr\u00e9al\u00a0<\/em>Avudo<\/em>, a multimedia show that combined video mapping, lights and water fountains for the city of Montreal (249,000 spectators in 4 months) and in 2019\u00a0Abrazos\u00a0<\/em>for the fair Feria de Le\u00f3n in Mexico, a special event aimed at families (200,000 spectators). Moreover, its creative team was part of the\u00a0F\u00eate des Vignerons<\/em>\u00a02019, an event that takes place four times in a century in Vevey (Switzerland), seen by 375,000 spectators. In 2020 the Compagnia Finzi Pasca staged the artistic part of the inauguration of the largest concert organ in Russia, at the Zaryadye Concert Hall in Moscow: an immersive installation\u00a0where 24 of the best organists in the world took it in turns to play for 24\u00a0hours non-stop (approximately 10,000 visitors).<\/p>\n

Currently 6 shows of the Compagnia Finzi Pasca are on tour: Titiz\u00e9 \u2013 A Venetian Dream (2024), Nuda<\/em> (2021), 52<\/em> (2021), Luna Park \u2013 like a carousel ride<\/em> (2020), Bianco <\/em>su<\/em> Bianco<\/em> (2014), and\u00a0<\/em>Icaro<\/em> (1991).<\/p>\n

In 2022 Daniele writes and directs Azul – <\/em>Gioia<\/em>, <\/em>Furia<\/em>, <\/em>Fede<\/em> y <\/em>Eterno<\/em> Amor<\/em> with Stefano Accorsi, produced by Marco Balsamo’s Nuovo Teatro in co-production with the Fondazione Teatro della Toscana.<\/p>\n

In 2023 he created and directed the new contemporary flamenco show Jaleos<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Jondos<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other international projects are in preparation with the Company and with Inlevitas, where Melissa Vettore, his wife, is an artistic collaborator.<\/p>\n

Daniele published some books, appeared in seven languages: a collection of short stories, two dramaturgies of his shows, a novel, a novella and a long interview-book by Facundo Ponce de Le\u00f3n, Daniele<\/em>\u00a0Finzi Pasca. Teatro de la <\/em>caricia<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amongst many recognitions (e.g. 3 nominations in Broadway for Rain<\/em>, 2006), Daniele received the Montr\u00e9al English Critics Circle Award (MECCA) 2009 for\u00a0<\/em>Icaro<\/em>, the Hans Reinhart Ring (2012), the highest distinction of Swiss theatre for his lifelong contribution to the performing arts, the Best Director of Circus Performance Award 2016 (Russia) for La <\/em>Verit\u00e0<\/em>, the Swiss Society Fellowship Prize 2020 (New York, USA), the Prize \u201cMarco Borradori – In tutto\u00a0ci\u00f2\u00a0che genera bellezza\u201d in 2021 (Lugano, Switzerland)<\/p>\n

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Daniele Finzi Pasca (Lugano, Switzerland), co-founder of Compagnia Finzi Pasca Author, stage director, choreographer, lighting designer and actor Daniele Finzi Pasca lives in three worlds at once: stage directing, performing arts, and the art of clowning. Born into a family steeped in the arts, he starts his career as a gymnast and becomes a circus artist before delving into the world of theatre. In 1983, he heads to India where he volunteers to care for terminally ill patients in Calcutta. On his return to Switzerland, with Maria Bonzanigo and his brother Marco he creates the company Teatro Sunil\u00a0and its peculiar vision of the art of clowning, dance and acting: a theatrical technique they name the \u201cTheatre of the Caress\u201d.\u00a0With Teatro Sunil he creates and directs around 30 shows depicting a profound sense of humanity and playfulness, performed in about 20 countries. In 1991 he writes Icaro, a monologue imagined for a single spectator that he performs more than 800 times, in 6 languages, still on tour. In 2009 he co-founds Inlevitas\u00a0with his wife Julie Hamelin Finzi, who died in 2016, aiming to create and develop various artistic projects, where the opera L\u2019Amour de Loin (Love from Afar) for the English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":815,"parent":20,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-711","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26455,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/711\/revisions\/26455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finzipasca.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}