Culture - Marco Marucci - Il Circo di Nando
T
he Italian circus Apollo was founded in
nominated film Armarcord, in which he played the
2007 and began touring all over Italy
character Pattaca. Nando Orfei’s circus has been
with new partner Nando Orfei at the helm
for a long time one of the few circuses in Italy that
whose famous name decorates the signs at the
featured only human performers with no animals
entrance. Nando was the most important circus
involved in any of the acts, having long discon-
character in all of Italy; he was a showman and
nected from the past in which Orfei identified as a
had previously acted in a few of legendary director
“tamer” of wild beasts.
Federico Fellini’s movies, in particular the Oscar-
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