Splendida cornice Episode Rating Graph
Jan 2023 - present

Jan 2023 - present
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S5 Ep13
10.0
10th Apr 2025
Guests of the last episode of the season are Mahmood, Cristina Donadio, Filippo Nigro, the journalist Giovanna Botteri, Pino Strabioli, the real estate agent Gianluca Torre and Chiara Galiazzo. Connected from the United Kingdom are the actress Christine Tremarco, the essayist and psychoanalyst Vittorio Lingiardi, the writers Edoardo Camurri and Paolo Di Paolo and the actress Federica Fracassi. In addition, at the "lamp" station there is the game designer Spartaco Albertarelli. Then there is the live performances with the dance of Daniil Simkin in the exhibition of "Les Bourgeois" and of Antonella Albano, prima ballerina of the Teatro alla Scala, Massimo Garon and Guido Pistoni in "La Strada".

S5 Ep11
10.0
27th Mar 2025
Valerio Mastandrea, Angelo Pintus and Alessandro Siani, among the faces of the next season of "LOL", the writer and performer Claudio Morici, the sports journalist Gianluca Di Marzio and the journalist and presenter Sabrina Giannini are the guests of Geppi Cucciari in the new episode of "Splendida Cornice". Also in the studio are Elio, the journalist and radio host Gino Castaldo and, under the lamp of Splendida Cornice, the cartoonist Giudo Silvestri, aka Silver. And again, connected from Gaza, the operator of Doctors Without Borders Chiara Lodi, while the actors Filippo Nigro, Valeria Morosini, Claudio Colombo and the entrepreneur and television personality Paride Vitale intervene with a video contribution. Then there is space for live performances with the dance of Emanuela Bianchini and Damiano Grifoni of the company "Mvula Sungani Physical dance".

S6 Ep4
9.0
6th Nov 2025
Geppi Cucciari hosts the people show, which combines culture, art, and current affairs with humor and lightheartedness. The episode features many guests, including director Ferzan Özpetek, actress Valentina Lodovini, and journalist, host, and writer Giovanni Floris. Also featured are science communicator Mario Tozzi, actor and director Elio De Capitani, and, live on air, street artist and activist Pier Paolo Spinazzé—aka CIBO—and Don Paolo Loro Milan, priest of the Diocese of Biella. As always, there will also be live performances featuring the music of singer-songwriter Francesco Baccini.

S6 Ep3
9.0
30th Oct 2025
Geppi Cucciari presents the people show that combines culture, art, and current affairs with humor and lightheartedness. Special guests for the episode include former tennis champions Adriano Panatta and Paolo Bertolucci. Also in the studio are actress and comedian Michela Giraud, host of the comedy show "Roast in Peace," TV host Giulia Innocenzi, and journalists Sigfrido Ranucci, Milena Gabanelli, and Lucia Goracci. Also featured are actor, director, and screenwriter Vincenzo Salemme and playwright and author Roberto Mercadini. Dance and music will also feature, with the performance "I'm on Fire" by dancers Arianna Lenti and Giulio Galimberti and the song "Nuntereggae più" by singer Syria.

S6 Ep2
9.0
23rd Oct 2025
Geppi Cucciari presents the people show that combines culture, art, and current affairs with humor and lightheartedness. Guests include actors and comedians Virginia Raffaele and Aldo Baglio, stars of the film "Life Goes This Way," and bestselling author Dan Brown, with his new book, "The Last Secret." Journalist Giovanna Botteri and luxury real estate agent Gianluca Torre also appear in the studio. There will also be moments of comedy and reflection with Antonio Catania, Gigio Alberti, Bebo Storti, and Renato Sarti, celebrating the 40th anniversary of "Comedians."

S6 Ep1
9.0
16th Oct 2025
Geppi Cucciari presents the people show that combines culture, art, and current affairs with irony and lightheartedness. Guests include award-winning director and actor Woody Allen with his new novel "What's Happening to Baum?"; the special appearance of Gianni Morandi; host Camila Raznovich, soon to be seen in the theater with the show "LoveLive"; actresses Brenda Lodigiani and Gianna Serra with a tribute to the comedic and creative talent of Stefano Benni; and a keen eye on current events with an interview with the young chef from Gaza, Renad Attallah. Also featured are Raphael Gualazzi, Paolo Fresu, Laura Marzardori, and Gianni Rivera with a tribute to La Scala del Calcio, the San Siro, before its demolition; Professor Piero Dorfles; and playwright and writer Roberto Mercadini. Dance will also be on the agenda with the performance "In Touch" by dancers Stefania Ballone and Gioacchino Starace. Meanwhile, cartoonist Silvia Ziche will be at the Lamp of "Splendida Cornice."

S5 Ep12
9.0
3rd Apr 2025
Guests of the episode: The star Roberto Bolle, Dargen D'Amico, Greta Scarano, accompanied by Matilda De Angelis and Yuri Tuci. With them Manuel Agnelli, together with the director Valter Malosti, the mentalist Andrea Rizzolini, the cartoonist Beatrice Tassone and, connected from Kiev, the trumpeter Paolo Fresu. At the "lamp" station of "Splendida Cornice" Valerio Lundini, who from April 10 will be online again on RaiPlay with the second season of "Faccende Complicate".

S5 Ep10
9.0
20th Mar 2025
Geppi Cucciari presents the people show that combines culture, art and current affairs with irony and lightness.

S1 Ep1
3.3
12th Jan 2023
Splendida Cornice is a prime time people show in which the presenter Geppi Cucciari addresses culture lightly and with the irony that distinguishes her. The Sardinian actress and comedian will start from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and from its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit, but always curious . There will be a voting public, divided into demographic categories that will track the consumption of Italians to learn about their events and cultural predilections. There will be a professor who, shouting #primalitaliano, will monitor the grammatical adequacy of hosts and guests. A service band, or "disservice", will mark the rhythms of organized improvisation. There will be guests who can bring a high topic to an understandable level. We will talk about the most read book, the emptiest theatre, but inappropriately.

S3 Ep2
6.0
25th Jan 2024
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.

S3 Ep10
6.0
28th Mar 2024
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.

S3 Ep11
6.0
4th Apr 2024
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.

S3 Ep14
7.0
25th Apr 2024
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.

S4 Ep6
8.0
28th Nov 2024
Guests of the episode Elena Sofia Ricci, Marco D'Amore, Piero Dorfles, Anna Ammirati, at the cinema with the new film by Gabriele Salvatores, and the actress and comedian Alessandra Ierse. And again, the actress and impersonator Brenda Lodigiani and the cartoonist and screenwriter Igort. Space for live performances with a tribute to Mina by the dancer Tommaso Stanzani, the elegance of the ballet of Les Étoiles and the performances of Giulia Mei and Angelica Schiatti, aka Angelica. During the episode, also a special connection with the Poldi Pezzoli Museum to follow the restoration of the famous "Portrait of a Young Woman" by Pietro del Pollaio.

S4 Ep7
9.0
5th Dec 2024
In the new episode with Geppi Cucciari, many guests: Silvio Orlando, Luca Argentero, Stefano Accorsi, Germano Lanzoni and the actor, director and writer Antonio Rezza. And again, the writers Maurizio De Giovanni, Enrico Deaglio, Giuseppe Catozzella and the co-director Deka Mohamed Osman. Also present in the episode is the journalist Marco Vizzardelli, a member of the gallery at the Teatro alla Scala famous for having shouted "Long live anti-fascist Italy" during last year's premiere, while at the lamp post of "Splendida Cornice" there is the cartoonist Giovanni Freghieri. Then there is space for music with Simona Molinari and the performance of the tenor Ramtin Ghazavi accompanied by the notes of Carlo Centemeri.

S4 Ep9
9.0
19th Dec 2024
Last appointment of the season for "Splendida Cornice" by Geppi Cucciari. Among the guests of this last episode before the Christmas break: Pif, the director Giovanni Veronesi to talk about his latest work, "Valanga Azzurra", a documentary on the legendary Italian national alpine ski team of the 70s, together with one of the protagonists and champion, Pietro Gros. In addition, the Oscar-winning pianist and composer, Nicola Piovani, author of the book "La Musica è pericolo", Vanessa Scalera, one of the protagonists of the new film by Ferza Ozpetek, "Diamanti" and the actress Federica Fracassi. Space for live performances with the dance of Virna Toppi, prima ballerina of the Teatro alla Scala, the music of Elio e Storie Tese with the new single "Natale in Trincea", the performance of The Swingles, the internationally renowned a cappella vocal group and winner of several Grammy Awards, and the bagpipers Stefano and Felice Torre.

S1 Ep1
3.3
12th Jan 2023
Splendida Cornice is a prime time people show in which the presenter Geppi Cucciari addresses culture lightly and with the irony that distinguishes her. The Sardinian actress and comedian will start from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and from its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit, but always curious . There will be a voting public, divided into demographic categories that will track the consumption of Italians to learn about their events and cultural predilections. There will be a professor who, shouting #primalitaliano, will monitor the grammatical adequacy of hosts and guests. A service band, or "disservice", will mark the rhythms of organized improvisation. There will be guests who can bring a high topic to an understandable level. We will talk about the most read book, the emptiest theatre, but inappropriately.

S1 Ep2
19th Jan 2023
Second appointment with irony and self-irony, the quotation and self-citation of Geppi Cucciari and "Splendida Cornice", the program that takes inspiration from people and their stories, inspired by the news of the week and its interpreters. From small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit but always curious. The voting public divided between demographic categories, the "competent homonyms", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests return, with the arduous task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable to all. And again, the story of the most read book, the emptiest theatre, the more or less worthy exhibition and the game.

S1 Ep3
26th Jan 2023
Third appointment with irony and self-irony, the quotation and self-citation of Geppi Cucciari and "Splendida Cornice", the program that takes inspiration from people and their stories, inspired by the news of the week and its interpreters. From small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit but always curious. The voting public divided between demographic categories, the "competent homonyms", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests return, with the arduous task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable to all. And again, the story of the most read book, the emptiest theatre, the more or less worthy exhibition and the game. Together with Geppi Cucciari, the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.

S1 Ep4
2nd Feb 2023
Fourth appointment with irony and self-irony, the quotation and self-citation of Geppi Cucciari and "Splendida Cornice", the program that takes inspiration from people and their stories, inspired by the news of the week and its interpreters. From small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit but always curious. The voting public divided between demographic categories, the "competent homonyms", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests return, with the arduous task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable to all. And again, the story of the most read book, the emptiest theatre, the more or less worthy exhibition and the game. Together with Geppi Cucciari, the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.

S1 Ep5
16th Feb 2023
A tribute to Massimo Troisi, who would have turned seventy on February 19, will open the episode of Splendida Cornice with the rapper Clementino who will sing " Quando " by Pino Daniele. Starting from the Sanremo monologues, this year all female, Geppi Cucciari will test a young Italian editor, the host Alessandro Cattelan, whose monologue will be judged by the jury of "La senti questo Voice" composed of Lella Costa and Amalia Ercoli Finzi . Federica Sciarelli will dedicate a special edition of "Who has seen it?" to "Splendida Cornice". Furthermore, in a film, four Italian intellectuals, Nicola Lagioia, Giorgio Zanchini, Daria Bignardi and Stefano Bartezzaghi, will make a cultured parody of Bobo TV. Piero Dorfles is also in the studio. Together with Geppi Cucciari the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.

S1 Ep6
23rd Feb 2023
Splendida Cornice is a prime time people show in which the presenter Geppi Cucciari addresses culture lightly and with the irony that distinguishes her. The Sardinian actress and comedian will start from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and from its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight and a look that is sometimes amused, sometimes complicit, but always curious . Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni who, together with Geppi Cucciari, will travel through Italian music. And then Maurizio Mannoni and the writer Rosella Postorino, from the "Linea Notte" studio, will make a foray into the program. We will talk about political correctness and the Roald Dahl case with the critic and journalist Aldo Grasso in connection. Among the guests also Marco Ferradini who will perform a renewed version of his well-known song "Teorema".

S1 Ep7
2nd Mar 2023
New appointment with the program that starts from the people, their stories, the news of the week and its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight. Together with Geppi Cucciari the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi. In this episode a memory of last Sunday's migrant tragedy with Ermal Meta who will sing "How deep is the sea" in the studio and Peppino Mazzotta, live from Cutro, the area of the shipwreck, who will dedicate a reading to the incident. We will also talk about "Mixed by Erry", a film about music piracy, with the Frattasio brothers, the true protagonists of this story taken from true events, therefore a tribute to Lucio Dalla, for the eightieth anniversary of his birth, with Noemi and Paola Pallottino, Dalla's lyricist and author of the lyrics of "4 March 1943".

S1 Ep8
9th Mar 2023
With irony, self-irony, quotation and self-citation, Geppi Cucciari awaits viewers with a new appointment of Splendida Cornice which starts from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that they deserve a reflector. Guest in the studio will be Piera Detassis and, in connection, Carlo Verdone who will talk about the Oscar awards starting from their personal stories and anecdotes. Elio will sing a song to pay homage to Enzo Jannacci and will speak with Geppi Cucciari and Nico Acampora, founder of a social inclusion pizzeria-laboratory run by autistic children. Lino Guanciale will introduce the characters of the fiction "Inspector Ricciardi" and will give a monologue. Pianist Ramin Bahrami will perform on the piano and tell his story of Iran. Mario Tozzi will make a foray into "Splendida Cornice" from his studio of "Sapiens - One Planet".

S1 Ep9
16th Mar 2023
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 Serena Dandini, Sandra Milo, Maurizio Lastrico, Marco Damilano, the writer Francesco Piccolo, the art critic Francesco Bonami and, in connection, Frank Matano. Together with Geppi, the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.

S1 Ep10
23rd Mar 2023
Irony, self-irony, quotation and self-citation: the ingredients of Splendida Cornice. New appointment of the program that starts from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that deserve a spotlight. In the studio the voting public, the "competent namesakes", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests with the task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable by all. Together with Geppi Cucciari Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi. Guests of this episode are Articolo 31, Luigi Lo Cascio, Valentina Lodovini, Extraliscio with the Dervisci dancers, Marco Damilano, the writer and poet Aldo Nove, the writer Valeria Parrella and, in connection, Iva Zanicchi.

S1 Ep11
30th Mar 2023
The appointment with the Rai Cultura program is back which starts from a fundamental belief: everything can be culture, the important thing is how you use it. Together with Geppi Cucciari there will be the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi. Guests of the episode: Giuseppe Fiorello; Lillo Petrolo; Sandro Piccinini; pastry chef Ernst Knam; Hope Carrasquilla, principal of Tallahassee Classical School in Florida; the mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella; Alice Rohrwacher; Fumettibrutti; Enrico Gabrielli; Giovanni Truppi; the Little Angelic Choir.

S1 Ep12
6th Apr 2023
With irony, self-irony, quotation and self-citation, Geppi Cucciari awaits viewers with a new appointment of Splendida Cornice which starts from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that they deserve a reflector. The voting public, the "competent namesakes", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests return with the task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable by all. And again, the story of the most read book, the emptiest theatre, the more or less worthy exhibition and the game. Together with Geppi Cucciari the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi. Guests of the episode Teo Teocoli, the theater director Davide Livermore, Syria, Dan Peterson, the writer Viola Ardone, Massimo Bernardini, professor Alberto Grandi, Sveva Sagramola and, in connection, the trumpeter Roy Paci.

S1 Ep13
13th Apr 2023
With irony, self-irony, quotation and self-citation, Geppi Cucciari awaits viewers with a new appointment of Splendida Cornice which starts from the people, from their stories, from the news of the week and its interpreters, from small pearls of every form of art that they deserve a reflector. The voting public, the "competent namesakes", the Italian teacher, the band and the guests return with the task of bringing a high topic to a level understandable by all. And again, the story of the most read book, the emptiest theatre, the more or less worthy exhibition and the game. Guests of the episode Rocco Papaleo, Eugenio Finardi, Vinicio Capossela, Francesca Fagnani, Valerio Lundini, Raiz from the fiction "Mare Fuori", the poet Vincenzo Costantino Cinaski and the Trockadero dance troupe. Together with the presenter, Geppi Cucciari, the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.

S1 Ep14
20th Apr 2023
Anything can be culture, the important thing is how you use it. Splendida Cornice starts from this belief in which, with irony, self-irony, quotation and self-citation, Geppi Cucciari converses with people, telling their stories, commenting on the news of the week and its interpreters. Guests of this episode: Antonella Clerici, Luciana Littizzetto, Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Tosca and, in connection, the writer Valérie Perrin. Together with Geppi Cucciari the band led by Nicola "Ballo" Balestri, the popularizer Roberto Mercadini and the Italian teacher Andrea Maggi.
The first episode of Splendida cornice aired on January 12, 2023.
The last episode of Splendida cornice aired on April 10, 2025.
There are 59 episodes of Splendida cornice.
There are 6 seasons of Splendida cornice.
Yes.
Splendida cornice is set to return for future episodes.