(ANSA) - SANREMO, 28 FEB - Fiorello has already prepared the "scoop of the year": "Ama confided it to me at 11.30, he came to my room in his pajamas and told me: 'I am the year next I want to do Sanremo ter, because this is the year of rebirth, next year I want to enjoy the boom ".
And Amadeus replies: "He replied: 'Know that I will never leave you'".
The gag between the two friends, ready for the challenge of Sanremo 2021, kicks off on Tuesday 2 March, is staged at the opening on Sunday in: "Mara, let's think about what is about to begin", brakes the conductor and artistic director.
Then, at the end of the connection, to Venier who presses him again on next year, he plays along and replies slyly: "I do not confirm and I do not deny".
"It will be a different Sanremo from last year - underlines the presenter - due to the absence of the public, but on stage the spirit will be the same as last year. With Fiorello, 70 percent of what we do is improvised, it is the game between us. Of course - he admits -, the outline is strange, the evening when you go out after rehearsals is deserted, last year there were thousands of people. But we entered the 'no-audience mode', let's think about who will watch us from home and in the theater we will have the wonderful orchestra of the festival: when we see their reactions, the smiles, when we meet their eyes, the musicians become the audience present in the room ".
In an Italy in the grip of Covid, "the public - argues Amadeus - needs lightness: we know what is happening, Sanremo does not solve the ills of the world, but it can offer five evenings of music and lightheartedness".
For those who, like him, started on the radio ("I came here as a young man to do interviews with the singers and I didn't have access to the Ariston"), doing Sanremo is "a dream come true: the festival is the history of music, of costume , of the country: this is why it was important not to stop it, it is a sign of reopening to the entire sector that has suffered.
If canceling the festival had served to reopen restaurants, cinemas, bars, I would not have hesitated to stop, but behind there are musicians, technicians, workers who work: we hope that this is the beginning and that other sectors can also reopen ".
At the center, the commitment to renew the cast: "The trend had already started with Baglioni, with Mahmood who will be with us on Friday, then with Achille Lauro, Diodato, Junior Cally: the mission is to bring also brand new singers, such as Maneskin, Fulminacci or Madame who has millions of views ".
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