Sanremo: the 2020 festival from A to Z

A as AMADEUS - From a good presenter to a 'conductor'. The metamorphosis takes place on stage, with Fiorello's hand, between a gag with Cristiano Ronaldo and an imitation of Sandy Marton. The public appreciates, the plays fly and 'Ama' avoids the risk of returning to the unknown Soliti to be a mysterious relative. Institutional but also ironic, perfect shoulder for Fiorello. Candidate for encore.
B as BALCONCINO - Vincenzo Mollica retires and is celebrated at Ariston with a standing ovation that gives him a peak of share on the fourth evening. Vasco calls him the 'rock star' of Tg1, but he shields himself. Vincenzo is a legend in the history of the Festival. Even the press room brings him in triumph.
C as CANTICO dei CANTICI - Eroticism and poetry, transgression and allegory in a text of 2400 years ago: Roberto Benigni transforms the biblical text into a piece of entertainment and the share reaches 60%.
D for DIODATE - Assopigliatutto of the 70th edition of the festival: the Mia Martini Critics Award and the Lucio Dalla Press Room Prize also wins and takes home. A nice win for a nice song.
And as ELIMINATION - That of Bugo and Morgan with 'Sincero' on Friday evening is the shortest exhibition in the history of the Festival. Behind the scenes Morgan provokes Bugo, then changes the lyrics of the song in the race, filling it with insults, the former partner goes away. Disqualification takes place.
F for FIORELLO - From the disguise of Maria De Filippi to the freestyle with the autotune, he is the master of Sanremo. "His presence illuminated the Festival," repeats Amadeus, happy to have crowned his dream alongside his old friend.
G for JACKETS - From the reassuring clothes of the unknown Soliti to the lurex jackets in metallic, silver, gold, bronze and black colors: Ama's metamorphosis also passes through the look. H as H24 - The extra-large duration of the evenings, with L'ALtro Festival to follow on RaiPlay, totals the whole day. A neverending festival where the day merges with the night and vice versa.
I as ISMI - From plasticism to manism, from drug addiction to florism, Fiorello's neologisms are wasted. Above all, kissing. A kiss seals the peace between Fiore and Tiziano Ferro.
Kisses also for Achille Lauro and his guitarist Boss Doms, Elettra Lamborghini and Myss Keta, Georgina Rodriguez and his Cristiano Ronaldo, but the most tender one is that of Amadeus to his mother, sitting in the stalls next to his father.
L as LAURO DE MARINIS, or Achille Lauro, surprising and chameleonic performer: San Francesco, David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust, the Marchesa Luisa Casati Stampa and Elisabetta I.
Brilliant.
M as MASK From Junior Cally to Myss Keta, the mask crosses the festival and also infects Fiorello and Ghali.
N as NEW PROPOSALS - There is hope for the future of Italian music. Eight young people, eight stories, eight realities to follow. Leo Gassmann wins, but Tecla, the Eugenio in Via di Gioia or Fasma would have deserved it as well.
Or as MARINA OCCHIENA - The blonde of the Rich and Poor, together with the 'mustache' Franco Gatti, re-enter the group and, 50 years later, sing 'The first beautiful thing'. Reunion is one of the cult moments of Festival P as Nuclear Tactical Penguins. They are the revelation of the Festival. Ringo Starr makes dance and gives the band third place in the standings.
Q as WHEN WHEN WHEN - Tony Renis returns to Ariston but in the role of conductor for a swing version of his worldwide celebrated success, masterfully sung by Fiorello.
R as RULA AND THE OTHERS - The women's festival. From a polemical smash with Amadeus' gaffe on Francesca Sofia Novello's' step back 'to a leitmotif. With the urgent and necessary words of Rula Jebreal: the appeal to women, and men, against brutality. The refusal to femicide returns to the stage with the seven 'pasionarie', Alessandra Amoroso, Giorgia, Fiorella Mannoia, Laura Pausini, Gianna Nannini, Elisa and Emma, ​​to launch the live of 19 September in Campovolo to raise funds for anti-violence centers .
S for SHARE - That flies very high, never like this in the past twenty years. A long ladder and a fine transmission always around 2 in the morning to put our hand in there.
T for TIZIANO FERRO - Audace, opens with Modugno's 'In the blue painted blue' and 'At least you in the universe' by Mia Martini. With Massimo Ranieri he gets excited by dueting 'Losing love'. He complains of the position in the ladder and launches, at one in the morning, the hashtag of the #fiorellostaizitto discord, then the serene returns and a selfie seals the peace with the showman U as URTICANTE - The rapper of discord Junior Cally ends up in the crosshair for the lyrics of the song 'Strega' from 2017.
Despite the political storm, it remains in the cast and the dust is deflated.
V as VEJSIU - If he had conducted the festival, the evenings would have closed at 11pm. Uncontainable talk, overflowing enthusiasm, the blonde Alketa, Albanian TV star, is one of the revelations of Sanremo 2020. "It is the highest point of my career , it represents the dream of a nation - he says -.
Italy is an example of integration and hospitality "Z as ZIZZANIA - In the friendship festival, someone tried to point out to Amadeus that perhaps Fiorello was stealing the show, but when a friendship goes on for a whole life it doesn't there is nothing to do, complicity triumphs.