LUCI DELLA RIBALTA
16th INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

FROM 18 TO 27 AUGUST 2026 NARNI (Italy)

UMBRIA CLASSIC FESTIVAL
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FROM 11 TO 15 APRIL, 2026


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Gianni Santucci

Gianni Santucci

Manon, Lausanne
La Bohème, Tel Aviv

Director for drama theater:
for literature works:
Liolà based on Pirandello’s novel;
Uomini e Dei, based on Cesare Pavese’s
Dialogues with Leuco; Inferno, two cantos from Dante’s Divina Commedia, Lecce


original drama plays:
Suoni della Memoria, Underground, by himself;
Il contrabbasso by Suskind,
Un contrabbasso in cerca d’Amore by F. Petracchi

Choreographer:
for musicals:
Musical – TSF, Rome 2004;
Cancan, 1998/1999
The Prince of Youth, T. la Fenice Venezia,
American musicals Teatro Music Hall, Sankt Pietersbourg, Russia;
Classics T. Friedrich Stadt Palast, Berlino

for drama theater:
Satyricon, dir. Renato Giordano; Aristophanes’
Gli Uccelli, dir. Renato Giordano;
Il contrabbasso,with his own direction),
Ma l’Amor mio non Muore by Gigi Proietti;
Steaptease by R. Giordano;
Ortelio non riesce a dormire by B. Maccallini;
Vengo anch’io, by i Picari; Musical pocket show
Salomè by G. De Feo)

for films:
Ben Hur XXIV, production MGM
Fratelli Unici, dir Alessio Maria Federici
Third Person, dir. Paul Haggis;
Il Viaggio della Sposa, dir. Sergio Rubini, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival;
Aprile, dir. Nanni Moretti;
Matilde, dir. Luca Manfredi;
Pinocchio, dir Roberto Benigni;
Moana, dir A. Peyretti;
Cinderella, dir C. Duguay 2011;
Selfless, short movie by Gregg Strasz

Other:
choreographer for TV series (Rome, produced from the HBO, Los Angeles, awarded the Golden Globe, I Borgia);
choreographer for commercial promotional films and presentations (Peroni beer; car industry: Ferrari Marlboro Tour; Fiat, Claudio Baglioni’s Red Tour) and television shows (Domenica in; Fantastico; Bulli e Pupe; Non è la Rai 2; Donne).

He directed and choreographed the international 61° Sagra del Mandorlo in Fiore as well as the Musical Comedy Nicola, il Santo that he also wrote.
Stage Manager for Italian Musical theatres from 1998 through 2003
Apart from numerous Italian theatre, film and television companies, he has worked in the USA, France, Switzerland, Russia, Germany, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Oman, Japan, Israel and Belgium.

LUCI DELLA RIBALTA 2026

LUCI DELLA RIBALTA 2026

MASTERCLASSES SUMMER EDITION 17-28 AUGUST, 2026 NARNI (Italy)

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