Sanremo, Roby Facchinetti on the missed tribute to Stefano D’Orazio: “Only bitterness”

Roby Facchinetti, on Instagram, wrote what should have been. «Dear friends of the Sanremo Festival», He began,« Dear friends of the Italian song, now we would like to spend a minute of our many, many, infinite hours of live broadcast for a truly necessary memory. It will only take a minute, believe it. But we really have to honor the memory of a great artist, of a historical exponent of Italian song, of a protagonist of this same stage where he won with Lonely men, of a beautiful, frank, intelligent, loyal person.

In short, we cannot forget to send a round of applause to Stefano D’Orazio, which with the Pooh represented the most fertile season of our great Italian song », Facchinetti compelled online, entrusting the quotation marks with a speech that should have been, but was not.

“I was awake almost until three o’clock last night, dear friends, waiting for Amadeus or whoever for him to utter words like these. Not out of presumption, or because they were demanded from me, from my friends forever, from Tiziana. But because the Sanremo Festival had promised them. Indeed, guaranteed », continued the leader of the Poohs. «The memory of Stefano was in the official lineup, albeit at a late hour, and in this capacity it has also been confirmed to the press. Instead, words like those I wrote above, or others with the same meaning, neither I, nor my friends forever, nor Tiziana, nor you have heard them. IS I believe that then there are no other words to spend: on the Festival, its authors, who conducted it. There is only bitternessFacchinetti concluded, regardless of what caused such a lack. “It matters little whether it was carelessness, ignorance, neglect or rudeness. Truly, the causes do not matter. The fact remains unforgettable ». A fact that Rai itself has not been able to judge.

On Sunday morning, in the press conference that traditionally follows the grand finale in Sanremo, the Rai management made no excuses. Trivially, he made amends, with a tautology that said nothing about the causes of the missed tribute to Stefano D’Orazio. “I apologize, but in the race to the times we did not make it”, the unconvincing words of Claudio Fasulo, deputy director of RaiUno.

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