Fuga. Ventuno poesie di Primo Levi, di Valter Malosti
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3 - 9:00 p.m.
Sala A, Fonderie Limone - Moncalieri (TO)
readings by Valter Malosti
music and live electronics by G.U.P. Alcaro, Paolo Spaccamonti
production by Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / Teatro Nazionale
in collaboration with Centro Internazionale di Studi Primo Levi, TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa
As part of the Festival delle Colline Torinesi, on November 3, 2025, Valter Malosti will present a collection of poems by Primo Levi, accompanied by music by G.U.P. Alcaro and Paolo Spaccamonti.
The Festival delle Colline Torinesi, the historic theater festival directed by Sergio Ariotti and Isabella Lagattolla and organized by TPE – Teatro Astra, returns to Turin from October 8 to November 3, 2025.
On the final evening of the Festival, Valter Malosti, accompanied by sound designer G.U.P. Alcaro and guitarist Paolo Spaccamonti, will offer the audience a refined selection of lyrics composed by Primo Levi between 1946 and 1985. The reading aloud combined with live music will create an exciting and evocative experience.
The selection consists of:
Il primo Atlante (1980), Cantare (1946), Il tramonto di Fossoli (1946), Ostjuden (1946), Il canto del corvo (1946), 11 febbraio 1946 (1946), Avigliana (1946), Il canto del corvo (II) (1953), La bambina di Pompei (1978), Donna Clara (traduzione da Heinrich Heine) (1976), Cuore di legno (1980), Schiera bruna (1980), Pio (1984), Annunciazione (1979), Canto dei morti invano (1985), Il decatleta (1984), Nachtwache (Guardia di notte) (1983), Fuga (1984), Il superstite (1984), Dateci (1984), Agli amici (1985).
All the poems are included in Primo Levi – Opere complete, edited by Marco Belpoliti, Einaudi, Turin 2016, vol. II. Many of the texts come from Ad ora incerta, a collection published by Levi in 1984. Others are later works and will be new to almost all listeners.