So what will happen? After the record results of the first evening, Amadeus he hasn't thought about it again: he will leave the Sanremo Festival. Five editions, a change that has handed the Festival over to young people, but now it's time to go: «I said it and you definitely know it before today, that it could have gone so well, or not so well, that I would have said it definitively on Sunday . For me it is a great joy, an honor to be here for the fifth year, but I feel the need to stop also to be able to think about something else or in some way, if one day the possibility arises again, to find new ideas.” He thanks Rai for his freedom, he thanks Fiorello «my brother», he thanks the co-hosts and the singers, he thanks his wife Giovanna (“I wouldn't have been able to work so well if I hadn't had her who gives me great serenity”), it's the end . For the moment.
The past and future of the Festival
The successor is not named, also because confirmation of the farewell was expected, “it will decide who comes next”, but Amadeus has a hope, “that music will always remain at the center of the Festival”. He is asked for an initial assessment, as if it were the last press conference, and the leader reflects on the past: «The 2021 Festival was that of the definitive change. There had been Covid, it seemed like an unfortunate edition, but instead it was an opportunity to bring a lot of new music, with many young names still unknown to the general public, such as Aiello, Colapesce Dimartino, Comacose, Ghemon”. 2021, the year of the “watershed” between the Sanremo of the classic melodic song that appeals to the older audience and the new wave of pop and urban from social media.
Fiorello and Travolta show, Morandi guest on Thursday
We then reflect on last night's first evening, a marathon until 2am with thirty artists competing. The political speech of Dargen D'Amico, who at the end of the performance makes an appeal for peace? «I didn't know he would do it but I fully agree with what he said, he did well. It is true that there are children who live under the threat of high waves.” Ibrahimovic on stage, the masterstroke, the real surprise of the evening: «He told me a few days ago that he would like to come and see the Festival and, since he came during the Covid edition without an audience in the room, I thought of invite him on stage. But everything was decided in the previous 48 hours.” Will there be other surprise guests? Amadeus doesn't want to say it, then he says it: «I told Gianni Morandi that if he doesn't have anything better to do…». Yes but when? He gives up: «Thursday». Tonight, however, John Travolta arrives and a show with Fiorello is announced: «They know each other, Ciuri told me to involve him but I have no idea what he wants to do».
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Source: Vanity Fair
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