Anna Rita Del Piano

Anna Rita Del Piano ( born July 26, 1966 in Cassano delle Murgia as Anna Rita Viapiano ) is an Italian film actress, theater actress and theater director.

Life

Education and Theatre

Del Piano was born in the province of Bari, Puglia, in southern Italy. She spent her childhood in her birthplace Cassano delle Murgia. Her family later moved to Matera; where she studied classical ballet classes. At the age of eight, she was the first time in a ballet performance on stage. Del Piano first completed an education as a ballet dancer with Maestro Niccolò Piccinni in Bari. In 1984 she entered in Bari on together with Momcilo Borojevic. She was a member of the Dance Mania Dance Company in Venosa, where the dancer and choreographer Tani Viti was her partner. She joined the University of Urbino at the Istituto Superiore di Fisica Educazione with a diploma. She studied at the Conservatorio Musicale Egidio Romualdo Duni in Matera; where she earned a diploma in singing and musical theory.

At the age of 10 years developed Del Piano great interest in the theater and the spectacle. She later attended several acting schools and acting classes, including 1986, the Laboratorio Teatrale " Hermes " (Director: Emilio Andrisani ), 1989 Laboratorio Teatrale the Teatro dei Sassi in Matera (Director: Massimo Lanzetti and Loredana Paolicelli ) and 1989 Stage Teatrale sulla parola nel linguaggio (Director: Mario Scaccia ). Del Piano was first appointed at small local theaters as a theater actress, primarily in Matera and southern Italy. Further studies followed in the 1990s at various drama schools in Rome; regularly visited Del Piano since 1997, Acting classes by the method of Lee Strasberg. For her acting role models include Anna Magnani, Katharine Hepburn and Meryl Streep.

Del Piano played in the later stages of her career as a theater actress, among others, Medea in the play Yerma e le altre by Daniela Ferri ( 2005; Teatro Agora Rome), Jocasta in Edipo Re (2007; Parco delle Catacombs of Generosa Rome), the housekeeper La Poncia ( Italian: Ponzia ) in House of Bernarda Alba and the astrologer Angela in the world premiere of the play Nulla è cambiato of Paola Aspri (2011; Teatro Sala Uno Rome).

Anna Rita del Piano lives permanently in Rome for many years.

Movies & Television

Your first contact with cinema was established in 1993 in Matera during the filming of the movie The man who makes the Stars ( 1995). The director Giuseppe Tornatore gave her a small role in the film and advised her, after an audition with him to pursue a career as an actress. In the course of her career, she had numerous other film roles: among other things as Rocco's mother ( mother of a classmate in the center of the action two boys Stefano and Gino are ) in the film drama Tornare Indietro (2002) by Renzo Badolisani than blind mother (mother of the male protagonists ) in the road movie Verso nord ( 2004), as a social worker Giusi in the film drama Le bande (2005), directed by Lucio Giordano, as ticket lady at the cinema ( in the original: Bigliettaia ) in the comedy Focaccia Blues ( 2009) by Nico Cirasola, a widow Pavone in the film comedy L' uomo nero (2009) by Sergio Rubini and as Anna (Mother of male movie lead role ) in the film comedy Che bella giornata ( 2011) by Checco Zalone. 2013, it was da sogno to see under the direction of Domenico Costanzo in the role of Giovanna in the comedy film Una vita.

In 1996 she made ​​her debut as a television actress in the television film The Holy Four Kings (1997), directed by Stefano Reali in the role of a beautiful leper. In 1999, she played, again directed by Stefano Reali, the wife of a brutal, dangerous mob boss in the TV movie Ultimo; to their partners was Raoul Bova. In 2000 she had a role in the television drama The Flight of the Eagle and the continuation of Le Ali della Vita 2, next to Sabrina Ferilli and Virna Lisi; she played the role of nun Sister Celestina. In the television film Maria Goretti (2003), a film adaptation of the life of the Catholic martyr Maria Goretti, she put Teresa Cimarelli, the godmother and godmother of Maria Goretti, dar. In the television series Don Matteo ( Terence Hill ) they had in 2003 a supporting role as Rossana. In the TV movie L' uomo sbagliato (2005) she played again directed by Stefano Reali, on the side of Beppe Fiorello, in the role of Cristiana whose film - fiancée. In the thriller Butta la Luna (2006) with Nino Frassica and Fiona May, she took over the role of Polizeiinspektorin.

In the years 2001 and 2005 was Anna Rita Del Piano at the Festival del Cinema e della television broadcaster in Salerno in the category " Best Supporting Actress " ( Miglior " Attrice non protagonista " ) awards for their roles in Le ali della vita 2 and L' uomo sbagliato.

Singing, recitation and Director

Del Piano is also active as a singer. Her repertoire includes Renaissance music, opera, operetta to jazz.

In 2004, she appeared as Clotilde on in the opera Norma. Since 2004 she has worked regularly with the Ensemble SYMPHONIA MEDIEVALE; it occurs as a vocal soloist in period costume with sacred and secular compositions of music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In August 2009, she was in her home town of Cassano with the L' ensemble Medievale with the program Laeta De Vita as a soloist as a guest. She regularly occurs with the ensemble Il Rondello. In 2009, she was with the program Ombretenue, a scenic and musical tribute to the jazz singer Billie Holiday, on tour.

Del Piano is regularly active as a reciter. In 2003, she was the narrator in a production of Peter and the Wolf. In 2004, she designed as a singer and reciter together with Michele Placido as partners, the program Un Viaggio chiamato Amore. In April 2012, she was next to Michele Placido, Corinne Clery and Alessandro Haber Anfiteatro di dell'Antiquarium Ficocella in Palinuro with the reciters at a scenic and musical reading titled Dalla notte del mito all'Eneide nei nei luoghi e tempi di Virgilio excerpts from the Aeneid.

In 2011 she staged in Cassano delle Murge the musical Parigi nell'Anno del Signore on motifs of the novel The Hunchback of Notre -Dame; besides, she was involved in the production alongside the director as storyteller.

Filmography (selection)

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