I would like to remember Giancarlo Cauteruccio. She was one of the fundamental figures in the history of the theater of this city, and not only that, but I say of this city because the activity she led to the Teatro Studio in Scandicci is memorable. I believe it is fundamental for a public theater to remember this.” Thus the artistic director of the Teatro della Toscana Stefano Massini remembering the Calabrian director, set designer and actor Giancarlo Cauteruccio who passed away on Sunday in “his” Calabria, where he had returned in 2021. The Teatro della Toscana and the Teatro Metastasio will also constitute an «Observatory of young artists and companies under 25» to intercept the future of the scene and encourage generational turnover, Massini announced that it will be named in memory of Cauteruccio,
The funeral of the theater maestro will be celebrated this morning at 10.30 in the Gesù Buon Pastore church in Sibari. The coffin will move from the Hospice of Cassano Ionio, where Cauteruccio passed away, to reach the place of the funeral rite, where friends and colleagues will give him their final farewell. It was his wife, Anna Giusi Lufrano, who announced the master’s death, entrusting the farewell to her husband’s own words: «Do you hear the wind as it speaks? The wind is a wonder of nature, it plays. The wind is music. I go in the music of the wind.”
And messages of condolence arrive from everywhere: every community of artists who worked with him during his long career remembers him with love and admiration. «Giancarlo taught us that the theater is not a place to live in, but a threshold to cross. His research and vision will continue to be a guide and inspiration for our work.” Thus in a note the Krypton theater company greets its founder Giancarlo Cauteruccio, remembering him as «one of the great innovative figures of the second Italian theatrical avant-garde. Starting from the end of the 70s, he gave life to a radical and recognizable research, based on the encounter between theatre, visual arts, poetry, architecture and new technologies, maintaining the centrality of the relationship between body, space and word”.
