Who expected a Sanremo Festival 2025 in the wake of the Amadeus one he miscalculated. Carlo Conti he wants to leave his mark and his signature right from the very first details. The most important concerns the return of the New Proposals that had been canceled by Amadeus: «I report the division between New Proposals and Bigs: the New Proposals will not increase the number of Bigs, but they will have their race and the Bigs will do their race. The winner of the New Proposals will probably be proclaimed on the cover evening. There will be no eliminations, it would be anachronistic”, explained Carlo Conti, guest of Tg1, anticipating many of the new features of his Sanremo.
«I am working on my editions also taking into account the great work done subsequently. I have always felt a great responsibility: my wife tells me that in my previous festivals I woke up at night, assailed by doubts about a song that I had perhaps discarded. The ‘steak’ of the festival are the songs, the singers competing, the rest is a side dish”, said Conti, explaining that music must, naturally, remain central. «I also spoke with Amadeus: music, after all, was the common thread in our livesthe rest is putting on a television program, very important, of course, because Sanremo is like the national team, we all become technical commissioners and artistic directors.” «I will get into the heart of listening between the end of August and September, also because the work for Sanremo must be organised: the regulations come first, then attention to the New Proposals, then the Bigs, then we decide who will be with me”, continued Conti who, however, unlike Amadeus, will opt for evenings shorter ones that will certainly not end after one in the morning as we have been accustomed to in recent years.
«In Sanremo I will finish first and put the Dopofestival back», Carlo Conti clarified, adding a dream: the presence of Vasco Rossi. «It would be great to start with Clear dawn sung by Vasco Rossi. Vasco, think about it: I don’t want it, Italy wants it.” declared the presenter while the names of who could join him begin to be called. The most insistent one is Alessandro Cattelan, who would be in the running not only for an evening as co-host but also as guide for the Dopofestival. However, Sanremo 2025 still needs to be thought about and built, even if it seems that Conti has clear ideas about what he wants, even on the purely musical front. «I realized at my last festival that something was changingafter the podium formed by Francesco Gabbani, Fiorella Mannoia and Ermal Meta, two artists who the year before were in Nuove Proposte and a great icon of music: I realized this when in the following weeks the most important news became the record of views of Westerners’ Karma, the winning song. Something is starting to arrive.”
Source: Vanity Fair
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