Sigfrido Ranucci | Diario di un trapezista

On Saturday 10 October 2026, at 9:00 pm at the Teatro Duse in Bologna, Diario di un trapezista, written, directed and performed by Sigfrido Ranucci, will be staged.

The show reveals a secret Sigfrido, parallel to the one we are used to seeing on television. A reporter who, in order to carry out his investigations, has had to make sudden decisions that have sometimes changed his life forever.

"There are people whose presence and choices, despite remaining in the shadows, have been crucial to the making of my investigations, people who seem to have stepped out of a novel.

There is a homeless man who helps me produce the most important international scoop in Rai’s history, the one on the bombing of Fallujah, where the United States used the chemical agent white phosphorus. Then there is a taxi driver who helps me rediscover Tanzi’s art collection, dozens of masterpieces worth millions of euros that had escaped the investigations of two public prosecutors’ offices and of the world’s most important international investigation agency, Krol. A Swiss producer who spends sleepless nights saving toads, and who saved me from a trap set by a politician who had me spied on in order to block my investigation into his administration and ruin my career. Then there is the deputy headteacher of a school who helped me carry out an investigation into arms trafficking, and a robber from Puglia who witnessed the mafia giving the order to kill me. There is the teacher who filmed the mysterious meeting between Senator Matteo Renzi and former intelligence officer Marco Mancini at a motorway service station. Finally, there is Lavinia, a bodyguard who helped me foil a plan by some politicians to replace me as host of Report.

I have come to believe that all the people I have met in my life had a purpose, and that those who left did so because they had completed that purpose. They all took a piece of me with them and taught me something, some of them even taught me not to be like them."

Notes by Sigfrido Ranucci