Valter Malosti
Valter Malosti, director, actor and visual artist, has been artistic director of the Teatro di Dioniso company for nearly 30 years. He has directed the School for Actors of the Teatro Stabile di Torino since 2010. From 2018 to 2021 he directed the Fondazione Teatro Piemonte Europa in Turin, (Theater of Significant Cultural Interest). Since 2021 he has been director of ERT Fondazione (Emila Romagna Teatro Fondazione – Teatro Nazionale).
In 2017 Malosti received the Flaiano International Prize for directing David Ives’ “Venus in Fur.” He has received numerous awards including, the 2009 UBU prize for directing “Four Profane Acts” by A.Tarantino and that of the National Association of Theatre Critics also for “Four Profane Acts” and for “Shakespeare/Venere e Adone.” In 2004 Jon Fosse’s “Inverno” received the UBU prize for the best foreign text staged in italy. From 2004 is the Hystrio prize for directing Fellini’s “Giulietta. In 1992 Malosti received a special mention at the Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival as best performer interpreting H.Achternbusch’s Ella in English. In addition to his company, his plays have been produced by, among others, Gruppo della Rocca, Granserraglio, Cabaret Voltaire, Laboratorio Teatro Settimo as well as major Italian festivals: Asti, Santarcangelo, Spoleto. As an actor Malosti worked, in the early 1990s, in numerous shows by Luca Ronconi. He starred in Schumann/Byron’s Manfred (June 2010) directed by Andrea De Rosa and conducted by Gianadrea Noseda in a project that saw the Teatro Regio di Torino collaborate with the Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino.
He has directed numerous contemporary operas, often premiering them, and has to his credit several radio productions for Radio3 Rai, including M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant by R.W.Fassbinder, La governante by Vitaliano Brancati. In 2008 he made the visual art installation Song to the siren, in collaboration with Luisa Raffaelli, for the Merz Foundation in Turin. He had previously exhibited in a group show at Rivara Castle for Franz Paludetto’s gallery. Numerous site-specific installations related to sites of great historical and cultural importance, most notably the one in the church of San Bernardino in Ivrea from Giovanni Testori’s text G. Martino Spanzotti and the frescoes of Ivrea, Nietzsche/Ecce Homo created at the Accademia Albertina and later realized at Palazzo Madama in Turin and in the basement of the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto and in various courtly and museum venues in Italy, Apocalypse of John at the Sacra di San Michele, Senso by Camillo Boito at Palazzo Ottolenghi in Asti and at Palazzo Viale in Cervo, among other sites involved.
In 2017 Malosti received the Flaiano International Prize for directing David Ives’ “Venus in Fur.” He has received numerous awards including, the 2009 UBU prize for directing “Four Profane Acts” by A.Tarantino and that of the National Association of Theatre Critics also for “Four Profane Acts” and for “Shakespeare/Venere e Adone.” In 2004 Jon Fosse’s “Inverno” received the UBU prize for the best foreign text staged in italy. From 2004 is the Hystrio prize for directing Fellini’s “Giulietta. In 1992 Malosti received a special mention at the Melbourne Fringe Arts Festival as best performer interpreting H.Achternbusch’s Ella in English. In addition to his company, his plays have been produced by, among others, Gruppo della Rocca, Granserraglio, Cabaret Voltaire, Laboratorio Teatro Settimo as well as major Italian festivals: Asti, Santarcangelo, Spoleto. As an actor Malosti worked, in the early 1990s, in numerous shows by Luca Ronconi. He starred in Schumann/Byron’s Manfred (June 2010) directed by Andrea De Rosa and conducted by Gianadrea Noseda in a project that saw the Teatro Regio di Torino collaborate with the Fondazione Teatro Stabile di Torino.
He has directed numerous contemporary operas, often premiering them, and has to his credit several radio productions for Radio3 Rai, including M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant by R.W.Fassbinder, La governante by Vitaliano Brancati. In 2008 he made the visual art installation Song to the siren, in collaboration with Luisa Raffaelli, for the Merz Foundation in Turin. He had previously exhibited in a group show at Rivara Castle for Franz Paludetto’s gallery. Numerous site-specific installations related to sites of great historical and cultural importance, most notably the one in the church of San Bernardino in Ivrea from Giovanni Testori’s text G. Martino Spanzotti and the frescoes of Ivrea, Nietzsche/Ecce Homo created at the Accademia Albertina and later realized at Palazzo Madama in Turin and in the basement of the Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto and in various courtly and museum venues in Italy, Apocalypse of John at the Sacra di San Michele, Senso by Camillo Boito at Palazzo Ottolenghi in Asti and at Palazzo Viale in Cervo, among other sites involved.
