by the Sarzi Family
Raul, Solima, Balinta, Tiziana

Those who got to know Othello well will confirm that his two great passions were building and traveling. It didn't matter if a puppet was needed for a show, if he had the desire to make it, it materialized in his hands. He would give up food to buy materials for a new shack, just as he would walk a thousand miles with his puppets on his back to reach a foreign country and show his shows. But travel is not only about taking you faraway places. You can also travel with thought, devising visionary, original, difficult or impossible projects. This is how we want to remember Othello on the centenary of his birth, collecting testimonies of his tours, but also of his imaginary journeys, of his great projects that perhaps someone, one day, might realize. For the time being, we recount them. Remembering Otello Sarzi, in the year of his centenary, means retracing and studying his works, his life, his political commitment, without giving in to the temptation to lock his spirit in a bottle. It is up to us family members, who lived with Othello and shared his artistic and life journey - as is customary for those who are part of an art family like the Sarzis - to pay tribute to him in a more intimate way, talking about his greatest passion: travel. Travel in the most extended sense of the term and always and in any case linked to a life dedicated to theater and puppetry.