Rino Giambalvo has died who, under the stage name of Giulio Manera , was the protagonist of a beautiful and intense season of cabaret in Cagliari on TV and on many stages . He was 83 years old and had many memories linked to an experience in the entertainment world lived with great love and passion. Many of his musical hits such as "Maria Bonaria" and "La bombola".
Irony, disenchantment, withering jokes are the tools of the trade of an artist who has been, together with Giampaolo Loddo, since the early seventies of the last century, the interpreter of the genuine and popular Cagliari soul .
The actor and director Piero Marcialis remembers him like this: «One of the main protagonists of the scene in the capital has left us. I had the honor of being with him and Giampaolo Loddo on the set of Casteddu Sicsti by Paolo Carboni and of having him among the performers of my comedy “This year Jesus is having Advent in Cagliari. Goodbye dear unforgettable Rino."
On the Facebook page of Banda Beni, other brilliant protagonists of the Sardinian artistic scene, we read: «For the audience of his shows he was Giulio Manera but for us, who met and appreciated him in the Strega Records studios he was simply Rino. We helped each other: us providing guitars and voices for his hilarious songs and him, above all, with his unmistakable voice in the spoken incipit of "Pare distance", the song for Cagliari. We will miss his skill and his humanity."
The actress Cristina Maccioni remembers her never-failing commitment to the theater : «For me he will always be the great Efisio Pestamuso in "Quelli dalle lips bianca" by Francesco Masala and Giacomo Colli. A stage companion capable of gracefully supporting his inexperienced colleague without losing the irony and sense of comedy that characterized his personality. It was my first show at the Piccolo Auditorium in Cagliari in the early seventies of the last century. I remember him fondly."