"When music meets a stage like this, everything becomes magical": with these words Amadeus celebrated the architect Gaetano Castelli, "architect of this art", accompanying him onto the Ariston stage to give him the audience's applause.
Castelli designed the sets for all five consecutive Amadeus Festivals.
In total he created 22 sets for Sanremo (the first in 1987, an edition with record ratings hosted by Pippo Baudo and won by Umberto Tozzi, Enrico Ruggeri and Gianni Morandi ed.) of which the last nine, including this one, together with his daughter Chiara.
It was Chiara herself who presented her father with the 60 Years of Career Award - City of Sanremo.
Gaetano Castelli said "thanks to Rai, to the scenography workers, stagehands, builders, painters, decorators and to all those who contribute".
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