Teatro Toselli
The Teatro Toselli is located in Cuneo and is one of the venues for the city's shows and cultural events, including those of the Scrittorincittà literary festival, organised by the Municipality of Cuneo through its Culture department and the Civic Library, in collaboration with the Province of Cuneo and the Piedmont Region.[1]
Scrittorincittà 2026
On 12 November 2026 the Teatro Toselli hosted the show «Le foglie hanno perso gli alberi» («The Leaves Have Lost the Trees»), which combined music and poetry as part of the 28th edition of Scrittorincittà, officially inaugurated on 11 November. The evening's protagonists were the Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, the poet Pier Mario Giovannone and the musician Daniele Di Bonaventura.[1]
The show interwove verses also drawn from Giovannone's book «Storia allegra di un uomo triste» («The Cheerful Story of a Sad Man») with the sounds of Fresu's trumpet and flugelhorn and Di Bonaventura's piano and bandoneon, alternating moments of reflection and irony. The evening included a tribute to the Piedmontese singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa, who had died ten years earlier.[1]
The 2026 edition of Scrittorincittà, titled «Finestrini» («Windows»), ran from 11 to 15 November with over 200 events across fourteen venues in the city, including author talks, presentations, shows and workshops for children and teenagers. Among the new features of this edition is the new ESSECI cultural hub, which houses the Civic Library and new spaces dedicated to culture and reading. Guests of the festival included, among others, Concita De Gregorio, Massimo Polidoro, Francesca Giannone, Diego De Silva, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Tiziana Ferrario, Jonathan Bazzi and John Niven.[1]
Timeline
- — Trumpeter Paolo Fresu performs at the Teatro Toselli in Cuneo in the musical and poetry show «Le foglie hanno perso gli alberi», together with poet Pier Mario Giovannone and musician Daniele Di Bonaventura, as part of the 28th edition of Scrittorincittà. → Quotidiano Piemontese
Sources
- Paolo Fresu al Teatro Toselli, musica e poesia per Scrittorincittà 2026 — Quotidiano Piemontese, 13 November 2026