Artists and promoters, we are exhausted, now 100% capacity

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 24 - Great agitation in the world of the show on the various hypotheses of capacity of theaters, cinema, spaces dedicated to live music.

The companies that organize concerts, gathered in Assomusica and not, have submitted to the Prime Minister Mario Draghi and competent ministers, during an event at San Siro, a proposal that provides 100% capacity without distancing with a Green pass and mandatory mask and body temperature control for the indoor shows and a certain date for the restart with a shared plan to be formalized by October 31st.

    "We ask the Government for a look abroad, Austria, Slovenia, other countries, some have already reopened since June, others like Sweden have given a date: September 29", say the promoters through Roberto De Luca, manager of the company that promotes Live Nation concerts.

   From the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers an apetition that gathers the many voices of the artists of culture, entertainment and politics that urge the Government to increase the capacity. "We have always respected the rules and laws and put the health of the citizens before everything else. Now, however, we are really exhausted", says the president, both Giulio Rapetti Mogol and of "leaving safely but really starting again".

    In the evening, the Undersecretary of Health Pierpaolo Sileri also spoke.

"The time - he says - is ripe for an increase in capacity at the events. But it will have to be done in a gradual and specific way. Next week there will be another meeting of the CTS".

Sileri adds: "It is not premature to increase seats in cinemas, to reopen stadiums, to do concerts. It is clear that it must be done gradually because cinema is one thing, theater is another thing and the concert is another thing. . And on the concert, where the risk may be greater, obviously greater guarantees are needed ".

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