Isa Barzizza

Isa Barzizza (actually Luisita Barzizza; born November 22, 1929 in Sanremo ) is a major Italian actress on stage, in film and on television.

Biography

The daughter of the orchestra conductor and film composer Pippo Barzizza went to the Liceo Classico Vincenzo Gioberti in Turin and began simultaneously with activities on stage in supporting roles, in which she played with artists such as Ruggero Ruggeri, Elsa Merlini and 1941/1942 with Eduardo De Filippo and his siblings.

Due to the personal intercession Erminio Macario with her father she could drop out and occurring at one of Macario revues. Barzizza debuted with Le educande di San Babila in 1947, followed by Follie di Amleto quick it was because of their pleasant, charming appearance and her sassy, witty tone to a popular actress and soubrette in light and music emphasized stage plays.

After their first experiences on stage next to Macario was Totò Barzizzas second teacher, who taught her more tricks and secrets of Acting: the direct contact with the public in support of comical scenes, the use of facial expressions, as well as the inclusion of the stage space. She also appeared with Totò in two pieces on: in C'era una volta il mondo in 1948 and was where the famous sleeper sketch shown in the following year in Bada che ti mangio, for the first time, who later in the film Totò a colori ( 1952) has been integrated. Over time it has been extended to the stage of first seven minutes up to three quarters of an hour.

Also next to Totò previously Barzizzas film debut in I due orfanelli 1947 had taken place. It was the first of eleven films together. Overall, her filmography includes around thirty films; some of which she turned in supporting roles from comedies of their male partners stage. In Gran varietà from the year 1954, she starred and sang a blues.

In the season 1951/1952 she worked with the experienced playwrights Garinei and Giovannini, the revue -like piece Gran baldoria enrolled her and her humor on the body, which was also a great success with the public. In the same season she was in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to see in the theater, directed by Renato Castellani.

On January 3, 1954 the start of Italian television broadcasting, she appeared in Carlo Goldoni's Osteria della posta for RAI. Many other comedies for the program followed. In the season 1955/1956 she was back with a stage play success: the musical comedy Valentina, the story of two lovers who came to make a time jump in as well with the audience as the realized for television by director Daniele D' Anza Wonder Bar in 1955.

1960 Barzizza broke suddenly from her stage career; The occasion was the accidental death of her husband, the television director Carlo Alberto Chiesa. For several years, she devoted herself exclusively to the education of their daughter. She found her new partner in the architect Enzo Villoresi. She founded a company synchronous and devoted himself to this work active and artistic director of the Company.

Only at the beginning of the 1990s Barzizza returned to the theater stage; again. comedies like La pulce nell'orecchio under the direction of Gigi Proietti, or Arsenic and Old Lace, the Mario Monicelli directed In 1995 she participated in the Spoleto Festival in part with The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller and played four years later Lauretta Masiero next in a stage version of Aldo Palazzeschis Sorelle Materassi.

For TV work, she was now again available; for Raitre she was seen in 1989 in the docu-fiction Mai dire mai beside Fabio Fazio and Giampiero Mughini; at Raiuno in the television series Non più lasciamoci 1999 and 2001.

After a few films to the late 1990s and the beginning of the new millennium was Barzizza 2012 was seen in the cinema after a long time: In Viva l' Italia she interpreted the role of Marisa, an old hospital patient.

Filmography (selection)

Bibliography

  • AA.VV. Almanacco Bompiani 1975 Il teatro di rivista italiano.
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