“Notte di Natale”, the new single by Lucio Corsi published by Sugar Music, is available on all digital platforms. The song will enter radio rotation from tomorrow, Friday 21 November.
Written by Corsi together with Tommaso Ottomano, “Christmas Night” explores the more private and melancholy side of the holidays, focusing on the passing of time, the need for proximity and that solitude that often emerges precisely on festive days. The writing, faithful to the artist's poetic and visual style, focuses on small gestures and everyday images to tell of a possible emotional rebirth.
Corsi describes the song like this: “It's a story, perhaps about love, set in the cold wind of December, in that sad air that I like during the Christmas period. The song features a moon, a star, a cat, a dog, the cold wind in the pub car park, a scarf cloud, a mother, a father and time, which is nothing other than a train lost in his thoughts. I wrote it in October with Tommaso Ottomano: me on the piano and him on the bass. The moon that makes the hitchhiking on the cover is a drawing by Giulio Melani”.
Listen to “Christmas Night” below.
The release comes a few days after the publication of “The guitar in the rock – Lucio Corsi live at the Abbey of San Galgano”, the live release available from 14 November and linked to the concert film of the same name, premiered at the twentieth edition of the Rome Film Festival and from 22 November on Rai Play.
The album collects the essence of Corsi's relationship with the stage: a live without filters, where – as he himself states – “the objective is not precision but feeling, where the spies whistle, the voices are broken and tremble like the lights of the street lamps”. There tracklistcomposed of 21 songs, crosses the entire repertoire of the singer-songwriter, from the first songs to the titles of the last album “Volevo essere un duro”, a gold record. The set also includes the spoken interlude “Canzone senza musica – Gli Alberi” and a version recorded for the occasion of “Maremma amara”, a tribute to the artist's Maremma roots.
Alongside Corsi, a formation of fifteen musicians: the band that accompanied him during his last tour, two backing singers, a wind section, a percussionist, the photographer Francis Delacroix and Ottomano himself, co-author and director of the project.
The concert film, shot entirely on 16mm film, visually represents a live performance set in a unique setting: the Abbey of San Galgano, in the heart of the Tuscan countryside. The architecture of the ancient complex becomes a natural scenography, enhancing the intimacy of a show conceived as a story in images. The executive production is signed by Borotalco, in collaboration with Magellano Concerti and Picicca Management, with the contribution of the Tuscany Region, the support of the Province of Grosseto and the patronage of the Municipality of Chiusdino.
The project – album and film – offers the public the opportunity to relive the intensity of Corsi's concerts, while the singer-songwriter prepares for the new events scheduled for 2026. After an intense summer on the stages of the main festivals, the artist will debut in January with the 2026 European Tour, his first tour in the clubs of the main continental cities. The inaugural date is set for January 24th at the Conza Pavilion in Lugano, followed by stops in Zurich, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, Berlin (already sold out), Brussels, London, Luxembourg, Amsterdam and Paris.
“Lucio Corsi – Palasport 2026” will start in November, the first tour of Italian arenas, with concerts at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence (27 November), at the Palazzo dello Sport in Rome (5 December) and at the Unipol Forum in Milan (11 December). Both tours are produced by Magellano Concerti.
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
