Splendida cornice (2023)

Geppi Cucciari returns to prime time with a new edition of Splendida Cornice. Over two hours of cultural entertainment, escape, disclosure, satire, where high and low, humor and knowledge come together to surprise and excite the audience at home and in the studio. The first episode of the new season is dedicated to the seventy years of Rai, with many guests including Fabio Caressa, Sergio Castellitto, Carlo Cracco, Emanuela Fanelli, Valerio Lundini, Benedetta Parodi, Pino Strabioli and Jasmine Trinca, with musical interludes by Elio and Le Storie Tese, Elisabetta Viviani and Maestro Remo Anzovino, the pianist Matthew Lee, as well as the Rai National Symphony Orchestra led by maestro Pietro Mainiti. And also the writer and director Vito Molinari, the designer Takahide Sano, the journalist Tommaso Cherici and a performance by the Kataklò acrobatic dance company.

Geppi Cucciari presents a people show, attentive to current events. The ironic and light-hearted story of today's world through books, films, social media, television and art. Actors, friends and witnesses of our time bring to TV an exclusive collection made up of words, anecdotes, curiosities, objects and build the week moment by moment. Guests are Massimo Ghini, Alessio Boni, Anna Della Rosa and Valter Malosti, Cochi Ponzoni, Maurizio Lastrico, Marcello Cesena, Danilo Bertazzi also known as Tonio Cartonio. And also musical guests such as Angelo Branduardi and Sergio Sylvestre aka Big Boy. And also, the Spanish ballet star Sergio Bernal Alonso, the artist Roberto Sironi, the writer and literary critic Paolo Di Paolo, the geneticist and writer Guido Barbujani and, connecting from Tehran, the Iranian director Ali Shams. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk demographic categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, dual role women.

A few days before the start of the 74th edition of the Sanremo Festival, Geppi Cucciari dedicates the episode to the most awaited event on Italian television. Among the guests Enrico Ruggeri; Colapesce and Di Martino, accompanied by pianist Angelo Trabace; Alexia - aka Alessia Aquilani - with the pianist Carlo Centemeri. And also, a performance created with the instruments of the Orchestra del Mare and a section of the Divine Comedy Opera Musical. Also present were the splendid Marisa Laurito, the archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the astronaut Luca Parmitano and Giovanni Galizia known by many as the "sexy priest" in the Roman Calendar.

After the Sanremo break, Geppi Cucciari returns with Splendida Cornice. Many guests of the new episode including Violante Placido, Alba Rohrwacher, Giuseppe Cederna, Brenda Lodigiani. And again Carlo Imperato, star of the series "Saranno Famosi" and Candace Bushnell, author of the column first and then of the book "Sex and City", as well as alter ego of Carrie Bradshow, icon of the very successful cult series. And also, many musical guests such as Peppe Barra, Chiara Galiazzo, Carlo Centemeri, the French Saints and the BabelNova Orchestra; but also Elioenai Schirinzi Intimacy Cordinator and, in connection, the keeper of the Genoa lighthouse.

Geppi Cucciari once again combines cultural entertainment, escape, popularization and satire, humor and knowledge, with the aim of surprising and exciting the public. Guests in the studio are Margherita Buy, Ascanio Celestini, Milena Gabanelli and Vinicio Capossela with a tribute to Freak Antoni of Skiantos. And again, the ecological engineer Annalisa Corrado, Daniel Roher, director of the documentary "Navalny", Daniel Ezralow with a choreographic performance signed by him and in connection, the G-Lab of Correggio. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

Over two hours of cultural entertainment, escape, disclosure, satire, in which high and low, humor and knowledge come together to surprise and excite the audience at home and in the studio. Guests of the episode were the British actress Helen Mirren, the director Marco Bellocchio, Carla Signoris and Levante. Also speaking are the pianist Remo Anzovino, the actor Filippo Nigro and Mario Calabresi, director of Chora Media. There will also be space for Maria Ghisu and the Neoneli Tenores, accompanied by two launeddas players, and the performance of Urban Theory, a group of dancers appreciated throughout the world. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

Geppi Cucciari returns with a new episode of Splendida Cornice. Guests of the new appointment are Alessandro Borghi, protagonist of the series "Supersex", the director, as well as actor, Marco D'Amore at the cinema with the film "Caracas", Emanuela Fanelli among the protagonists of Paolo Virzì's latest film "Another Ferragosto ". And also, the director Gabriele Salvatores with the book "Lasciateci perdere", Valeria Golino, Corrado Nuzzo and Maria Di Biase on tour with the theater show "Delirio a Due", the film critic Gianni Canova and, in connection, Mrs Maria Ghisu and the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. And again, space for music with Enzo Gragnaniello and M'Barka Ben Taleb. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

Guests of Geppi Cucciari in this new episode Alberto Angela, the magician Silvan, Fabio Volo who presents the animated film "Kung-fu Panda 4" of which he is the voice actor, Pif, Andrea Zalone, Chiara Galiazzo, the journalist and science communicator Massimo Polidoro with the book "The wonder of everything", written with Piero Angela. And again, Maxim Pozdorovikin, director of "Our New President", a 2018 documentary on Trump's 2016 presidential elections, the actress Luce Cardinale and, in connection, the students of Liceo G.P. Vieusseux. Furthermore, space for the musical with the cast of the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar": in addition to interviews with Ted Neeley and Lorenzo Licitra, respectively interpreters of Jesus in the first version and in the current version of the musical, Frankie hi-nrg and Feisal Bonciani. Finally, dance, with a performance by Alessandro Frola of the Hamburg Ballet.

In the new episode the guests are Paola Turci, Valeria Solarino, Massimo De Lorenzo, the journalist Sigfrido Ranucci, the winner of Masterchef Eleonora Riso, Giovanni Impastato, brother of Peppino Impastato, the writer and literary critic Paolo Di Paolo, the psychologist and journalist Massimo Cirri. There will also be space for music with trumpeter Fabrizio Bosso, as well as former Modena City Ramblers Cisco, and dance with the Celtic Roses. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles. Marketing boxes that become people and interface with the "experts": highly professional professors dealing with often unlikely questions, among which the feminism of the irresistible Amalia Ercoli Finzi stands out, the first Italian aerospace engineer, the civil lawyer Ester Viola, the pediatrician Paola Di Turi and the Jungian psychoanalyst Flaminia Nucci.

New event dedicated to cultural entertainment, escape, dissemination and satire. Among the guests of Geppi Cucciari, Dargen D'Amico and Pasquale di Molfetta, better known as Linus, among the most well-known deejays on the national scene now also acting as a showman at the theater with the show "Radio Linetti Live". And again, the comedian and musician Carlo Amleto, the composer Mauro Pagani, the radio host Giorgio Lauro and the drummer Julie Ant. Following, the playwright Davide Enea with a monologue taken from his show "L'Abyss"; Valentina Cicogna director of the documentary "Pure Strangers"; Jöel Dicker with the new book entitled "A wild animal"; Azdyne Amimour, father of one of the victims of the 2015 Bataclan massacre, and Georges Salines, father of one of the terrorists in the same massacre. And finally, a classical performance from "The Nutcracker" with the Ukrainian Ballet Academy.

Two hours of cultural entertainment and dissemination with a good dose of humour. Guests of Geppi Cucciari Gianmarco Tognazzi, Elio, Rocco Tanica, Giovanna Botteri, the musician, comedian and actor Carlo Amleto, the former Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley, the actress Federica Fracassi, Carmen Giorgio, former cellmate of Ilaria Salis , and the linguist and activist Vera Gheno. And then space for music with Erlend Øye & La Comitiva and dance with a performance choreographed by Marco Pelle. The audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories who interface with the "competent": highly professional professors grappling with often unlikely questions, among which the feminism of the irresistible Amalia Ercoli Finzi stands out, the first aeronautics engineer. Italian space, the tightrope walking of the linguist Giuseppe Antonelli, the civil lawyer Ester Viola and the kinesics expert Giovanni Manetti.

As in every episode, many guests were involved, including Serena Dandini, Malika Ayane, the actor and radio host Enrico Silvestrin, Giulio Scarpati, the comedian and musician Carlo Amleto and the actress Eleonora Careddu. And also, Daria Bignardi with her new book entitled "Every prison is an island" accompanied by the musician and singer-songwriter Vasco Brondi, Edoardo Leo protagonist of the Rai1 TV series "Il Clandestino". And again, the priest-engineer Don Antonio Paoletti and Don Gino Rigoldi. Space for art then with Flavio Caroli critic and art historian, Christian Greco director of the Egyptian Museum and with the performer Nicola Colleoni. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

Guests of the new episode, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Lundini broadcast on Rai 3 with his "Faccende Complicate", Margherita Vicario and Veronica Lucchesi protagonists of the film "Gloria". Furthermore, the journalist Lilli Gruber, in bookstores with the new book "Don't let yourself be fucked", the tennis legend Adriano Panatta, the former tennis player and commentator Paolo Bertolucci and the writer and poet Aldo Nove. And again, from the world of art, the Italian photographer Filippo Trojano, the musician Carlo Centemeri, the artists and photographers Michael Ackerman and Ramak Fazel. And finally the director Davide Livermore gives a performance with the actors Gianni Fantoni and Cristiano Dessì. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.

As in every episode, many guests were involved including Piero Pelù with his new single entitled "Maledetto Cuore", the singer-songwriter Margherita Carducci aka Ditonellapiaga, Valeria Solarino, Filippo Nigro and Federica Fracassi. And also, the president of the Diversity Foundation Francesca Vecchioni, creator of the Diversity Media Awards, the writer Francesco Filippi, Gianluca Torre better known as the real estate agent of VIPs, the pollster Martina Carone, the engineer Mattia Marini and the Iranian climber Nasim Eshqi. And again, on the occasion of the Anniversary of the Liberation of Italy, in connection, Flora Monti, the youngest partisan relay runner of the Italian Resistance; Renzo Rubino accompanied by La Banda di Martina Franca, Paolo Fresu, Daniele Di Buonaventura, Giovanni Sollima, Carlo Centemeri give us a musical performance on the notes of "Bella Ciao". And finally, space for dance with the performance "Take Me With You" by the Poznań Opera Ballet.

Many guests of the last episode: among them the director Ferzan Özpetek with his latest literary work entitled "Hidden Heart", the actor Vinicio Marchioni as a writer with the book entitled "Three Nights" and Pasquale Petrolo better known as Lillo. And also the actress and director Serra Yilmaz, Kabir Bedi, the cartoonist Andrea Spinelli, Norma Bargetzi and Bruna Molinari of the "Elders for the climate" association and Nico Acampora, educator and founder of PizzAut, connected from Monza. Then there is space for music with Elio and Negrita and dance with the performance "Take Me With You" by the Poznań Opera Ballet. As always, the audience is made up of spectators selected through the Gfk opinion poll categories: elderly people from bars, protagonists, women with dual roles.