When: Friday, Sept. 8, to Sunday, Sept. 10. Cost: General admission (bleacher seating) is $23; VIP (second row) is $43; VIP Premier (front row with reserved seating and more) is $63; children 2 and ...

The circus is coming to town. But this isn’t just any dog-and-pony show — this is the Zoppé Italian Family Circus, a performance steeped in a rich, 173-year-old legacy that is trying to keep the ...

A sixth-generation circus performer, Giovanni Zoppé is a fan of mixing up his show each year. The 2017 Zoppé: An Italian Family Circus, which comes to the Chandler Center for the Arts from Dec. 27 to ...

If Giovanni Zoppe tells you his family has been in the business for many years, he’s not talking about inheriting a shoe repair business or a bakery on the corner of a busy street. Zoppe is pointing ...

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - The Zoppe family business goes back seven generations, more than 170 years, and across the Atlantic Ocean. Their business: Circus. "It started with a French clown and a Hungarian ...

For families like the Zoppes, the circus isn’t just a way to make a living. It is part of their identities. The Zoppe family’s circus, in its 177th year, will make its annual visit to Chandler from ...

The quaint space beneath the canopy of high wires and hanging rings feels nothing short of family -- cozy, comfortable, familiar. Each of the 500 seats inside the one-ring Zoppé Family Circus sits ...

Cost: $20 for General Admission; $50 for V.I.P. seating; $70 for V.I.P. ringside seating; free for children ages two and under. Tickets are available online or at the on-site box office one hour prior ...

Famed entertainer Giovanni Zoppe, aka Nino the Clown, has been a staple of the Zoppe Family Circus for decades. (Courtesy Zoppe Family Circus) The old-fashioned Zoppé Family Circus from Italy is back ...

GIOVANNI ZOPPE is stuck between Nino the Clown and a hard place. Reconstituting the legendary Zoppe Family Circus as a one-tent act for the last three years, Zoppe has juggled life as a performer with ...

Ilario Fabrizio Luigino Zoppé balances, upright and giggling, on his father’s outstretched hand. Six months old, he looks gleeful from his high perch. Together they sway and restabilize as if it were ...