There is an ancient, simple and essential act that runs through every civilisation: storytelling. It doesn’t matter whether it’s in a square, a courtyard, on a tram or in a farmhouse in the Alta Langa: wherever people gather to tell and listen to a story, there is theatre.

From this deep conviction spring 10 events that will traverse the provinces of Turin and Cuneo like a collection of tales set to music: ancient in their origins, alive in their form.

Mordente is the name of a musical ornament that gives character and emphasis to a sound, transforming it into something special. It is the perfect metaphor for what we want to do: to restore energy and voice to forgotten pages of the 17th century, the century in which music became drama, capable of telling stories through the contrast of emotions, the tension between light and shadow, and the extravagance of sound imitations, and to do so through the languages of the circus, dance, theatre, puppetry and the spoken word, performed by young Italian and European talents.