Elio

NOVEMBER 27, 2025
ELIO – WHEN A MUSICIAN LAUGHS 

Playing and laughing with music and songs. An easy task for Elio and his band of young virtuosos who, after the great success of Ci vuole orecchio, are now enjoying exploring and reinventing that immense, seriously comical repertoire on the borderline between song and disenchantment which, especially around the 1960s, permeated Italian music, song, cabaret, and theater.

From Fo to Gaber, from Jannacci to Cochi and Renato, from I Gufi to Felice Andreasi, plus many others, a generation of eccentric and unconventional artists who surprised and entertained everyone, from experimentalists to the general public, reinventing a musical genre rich in extravagant and entertaining “light-hearted songs.”

This is what this show aims to do, rediscovering and renewing those brilliant, innovative, unconventional ideas, as well as that creative freedom. Because it’s nice to be there “when a musician laughs.”