Sanremo Festival, public and artists "on board"

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 26 - The audience of Sanremo and the artistic cast hosted in an original quarantine on a cruise ship, the Smeralda, anchored in Ligurian waters. Anticipated at Christmas at Dagospia, this would be the solution that the organization of the Festival is working on to guarantee the presence of its usual audience at the Ariston stage and at the same time find spaces that are proof of covid health rules for the artists' dressing rooms. , avoiding those too narrow of the city theater. The project, presented to Rai da Costa Cruises, is currently one of the hypotheses to which the organization of the event is aiming, even if operational decisions will be taken in Viale Mazzini at the end of January. The project, which would allow the Festival to fill the Ariston audience by dribbling the restrictions imposed on theaters by the pandemic emergency, would have convinced the president of the Rai advertising concessionaire and coordinator of the festival project Antonio Marano, even if he will not be the one this year follow the event until the end because it will leave Rai in a few days with a role in the Milan-Cortina foundation In essence, the project involves the creation of a "bubble", similar to those already implemented in the United States to allow the conclusion of the NBA championship . In this case, a Costa Cruises ship anchored at anchor in the port of Sanremo should be brought - after a buffer - 3-400 people from the public in addition to the artistic staff on the "Smeralda". The public and artists would remain closed and protected until March 2, the start date of the Festival. At the time of departure, guests would be boarded on the tenders and accompanied to the port and from there, with busses to the Ariston theater. An idea that would also find favor with the city because it would allow to draw attention to its port. The Palafiori will remain operational, a few hundred meters from the Ariston, which will host the technical staff, the record companies, the press rooms, the radio station and the daytime programs connected from Sanremo. The event Between the stage and the city would also be confirmed, with the stage in Piazza Colombo, from where the long red carpet will start up to the Ariston which in recent years has hosted several performances by the guests of the Festival and where the public, with new anti-crowd rules, could attend more numerous shows. And the After Festival, hosted at the Casino, should also be held. (HANDLE).