After a summer tour that touched the main open-air arenas in Italy, Francesco De Gregori returns to the Europaauditory in Bologna from 31 October with the “Rimmel 2025” tour, dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the famous 1975 album. A dozen concerts in theaters – from Montecatini to Turin, Parma, Genoa, Brescia, Padua, Udine, Naples, Bari, Catania and Florence – will liven up the autumn until the 24th November. In December the journey will continue in the sports halls, with two special events at the Forum in Milan (6 December) and at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome (10 December), to then end in 2025 with a series of dates in the clubs, in a return to the intimate atmosphere of the origins: from the Vox Club in Nonantola (Modena) on 23 January up to the grand finale on 14 February at the Fabrique in Milan.
The public will thus be able to rediscover the emotions of “Rimmel” and the entire repertoire of the Roman singer-songwriter in different contexts: from the charm of theaters to the strength of arenas, up to the more intimate dimension of clubs, where music becomes a direct encounter between artist and spectators.
Published in 1975, “Rimmel” represents a milestone in Italian songwriting, with songs that have entered the collective imagination such as “Pablo”, “Buonanotte Fiorellino” and “Rimmel” itself. De Gregori will present it in its entirety at each stage, alongside many other classics from his vast repertoire.
De Gregori will be accompanied by his historic band: Guido Guglielminetti (bass and double bass), Carlo Gaudiello (piano), Primiano Di Biase (hammond, keyboards and accordion), Paolo Giovenchi (guitars), Alessandro Valle (guitar, pedal steel and mandolin) and Simone Talone (drums and percussion), with the voices of Francesca La Colla and Cristina Greco on backing vocals.
Below are the dates of the “Rimmel 2025 – Theatres, sports halls, clubs” tour
Theaters 2025
- 31 October at the Europaauditory in Bologna
- 1 November at the Verdi Theater in Montecatini (Pistoia)
- 5 November at the Lingotto Auditorium in Turin
- 8 November at the Teatro Regio in Parma
- 10 November Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa
- November 11th at the Clerici Theater in Brescia
- November 13th at the Gran Teatro Geox in Padua
- November 14 at the Nuovo Teatro Giovanni da Udine in Udine
- November 18 at the Augusteo Theater in Naples
- November 19th at the Teatro Team in Bari
- November 21st at the Metropolitan Theater in Catania
- November 24th at the Teatro Verdi in Florence
Palasport 2025
- 6 December at the Unipol Forum in Assago, Milan
- 10 December at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome
Club 2026
- January 23 at the Vox Club in Nonantola (Modena)
- January 24th at the Estragon in Bologna
- January 27th at Mamamia in Senigallia (Ancona)
- January 28th at The Cage in Livorno
- January 30th at the Cartiere Carrara Theater in Florence
- January 31st at the Alleanza in Rome
- February 2nd at the Land of Catania
- February 4th at the Eremo Club of Molfetta (Bari)
- February 5 at the Casa della Musica in Naples
- February 7 at Dis_Play in Brescia
- 8 February at the Palmariva Live Club in Portogruaro (Venice)
- February 10th at the Padua Hall
- 13 February at the Concordia di Venaria Reale (Turin)
- February 14th at the Fabrique in Milan
- Pre-sales are available on Ticketone and in the usual pre-sale circuits.
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The Roman singer-songwriter also landed in theaters with “Francesco De Gregori. Nevergreen”, a film by Stefano Pistolini, a special event for Nexo Studios.
Ten months ago, in his music-making, Francesco De Gregori chose an unusual starting point: he decided to perform for a month, every evening, in a small Milanese theatre, the Out Off, bringing to the stage the lesser-known songs of his repertoire – or even the “perfect unknowns”, the nevergreens, which have never risen to the status of “evergreen” – with a different set list every time and some surprise guests.
To this project, which already had the features ofhappeningDe Gregori decided to add a further level: make it into a film. Not a celebratory biopic, nor a simple concert film, but a work capable of immersing oneself in his music, moving between the songs, in the dim light of the theatre, in the experience of the evenings and in improvised meetings.
Also on OndaRock we wanted to give space to some of these precious “nevergreen” songs by De Gregori in this commented playlist.
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The project was shared with Stefano Pistolini, with whom De Gregori had already worked in the past, in the documentaries “Windows broken” (2013) and “Carpenters & philosophers” (2022, together with Antonello Venditti). Together they embarked on a film that finds its story in the cyclical time of the long residency of twenty concerts and, above all, in the sounds and voices of Francesco and the artists who shared the stage with him, without space for ritual declarations or self-celebrations.
The result is “Nevergreen”, a work that aims to experiment with a new form of storytelling between music and images, intertwining them until they become a story in themselves. With the participation of Malika Ayane, Elisa, Jovanotti, Ligabue, Zucchero.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
