Sanremo 2021 we start
.
Tonight the
71 / o festival
kicks off: about three hundred minutes in duration for each episode, or five hours of show.
But, assures
Amadeus
, artistic director and conductor, "the timetable is not given by the share, but by the show. I thought five evenings with a lot of variety and music, I like a program that is rich and wide. We will finish late because I have so many things. in mind and I like to take them to the stage. "
The Big performers
tonight are Arisa, Colapesce Dimartino, Aiello, Francesca Michielin and Fedez, Max Gazzè, Noemi, Madame, Maneskin, Ghemon, Coma_Cose, Annalisa, Francesco Renga, Fasma.
The vote tonight will be that of the opinion poll jury and at the end of the evening the first ranking will be announced.
And it is today the news that, following the antigenic swab, which was positive, of one of the members of
Irama's
staff
, the artist was subjected to a molecular check swab which, according to qualified sources, was negative.
His performance - scheduled for this evening - had already been postponed to the second evening of the Festival.
In its place - among the 13 Champions competing - Noemi will perform.
And Sanremo 2021 starts from the winner of the last edition
.
It will be Diodato with 'Make noise' to open the show.
On stage
Amadeus, Fiorello, Achille Lauro, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and, as co-host of the first evening, Matilda De Angelis
.
Guests also
Loredana Bertè
, with a medley of her hits and the new single 'Figlia di…';
Alessia Bonari
, the nurse symbol of the pandemic;
the
band of the State Police with the Russian violinist Olga Zakharova and the saxophonist Stefano Di Battista
.
The first 4 young people will also perform
(Avincola, Elena Faggi, Folcast, Gaudiano).