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Sanremo 2021, Amadeus: “United for March or postpone to 2022”

Sanremo 2021 yes or no? There has always been controversy surrounding the historic Italian music festival. All the more so in the year of the pandemic. Is it safe to hold the Festival this year? Why can the Ariston theater open for Sanremo and the other Italian theaters remain closed?

These are some of the main questions that are animating the debate around the Festival, which should take place from 2 to 6 March. Themes that the same Amadeus addressed in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera. «I have always been clear either Sanremo is done safely – because health comes first – or it can’t be done “, he explained, taking the recent experience of Sanremo Giovani as an example. «It was done in a small theater, with many singers and technicians who took turns on stage. Everything went well: we didn’t have half a problem. If the health protocol is precise, things can be done. With Sanremo Giovani, Rai has shown it ».

If everything remains as announced, Fiorello will return alongside Amadeus, and together with Elodie, as co-host, she will be there for an evening the actress Matilda De Angelis, protagonist of the hit series The Undoing, along with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

To those who propose to postpone it to May, Amadeus replied, stressing that it would mean distorting the event and above all that in May we have no certainty that we can already be out of the pandemic. «If you postpone it to May it is not Sanremo, but the Festivalbar. And then who tells us that in May we will have left the masks and will be able to hug peacefully? If that were the case I would sign immediately, but in May we will probably be in more or less the same situation. So moving it to find yourself with the same problems wouldn’t make sense. Let me clarify one thing: I would not like it to seem that I was stubborn to do Sanremo at all costs. I have to want Rai, the discography and the city of Sanremo. We all have to want it: either we are compact and work to do it better or we will meet again in 2022».

The hypotheses at stake are those of an audience made up of extras, therefore “contractual figures who are an integral part of the show in compliance with the Dpcm”, the closed gallery, a reduced participation of journalists, whose presence remains essential (also for the vote of the press room on Friday evening) and no events outside the Ariston. It is still standing, the hypothesis of the ship. “I think it’s a beautiful idea, I wouldn’t completely sink it. We can think of using it in another way, we are working on it ».

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